iant333
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Guilderland NY
Well my Jeep seems to have world worst luck with exhaust, I had a thrush turbo with a turndown after the muffler on it for a few monthes that I welded up myself, the jeep threw it off 3 times and I lost it in the woods (no joke, couldn't even find it), before I decided to go with a flowmaster and have it installed by a real mechanic with a real tailpipe.
Well let me tell you, a cob job the likes of which had never been seen with that exhaust install, I thought it was fishy him only charging 50 bucks. There were no welds, all clamps, he mounted the tailpipe too far back so the axle hit its when the suspension compresses, he took both the heat shields off and now the exhaust being mounted so close to the gas tank is melting a hole through the plastic gas tank cover. And also he put a spacer on it to compensate for the shorter muffler, well I dont know what kind of steel he used, but 2 months later it already rusted through and I have an exhaust leak. And to add to all of this two of my exhaust hangers were so rusty they snapped the other day making my muffler and cat hang up on the crossmember and rattle like crazy.
Considering the whole thing at this point is just such a huge mess im going to take the entire thing off, manifold and all. Im thinking a stainless steel rugged ridge header, high flow cat and a new tailpipe, and ill re-use the Flowmaster 40 I have on it now and ill fab up some heavier duty exhaust hangers and see if I cant put a few more on for good measure, and im doing all the labor myself, first and last time I trust a mechanic with my Jeep.
Anyone have any tips on parts they have used that work well with relation to exhausts or is there some sort of a kit deal I can get for an OK price? Im not trying to be super cheap but I cant spend more than 5-600 dollars on the project, so just wondering what you guys think is a good deal and holds up and works well. I dont really care about stainless parts so much, im thik im going to coat everything in high heat paint before it goes in.
Well let me tell you, a cob job the likes of which had never been seen with that exhaust install, I thought it was fishy him only charging 50 bucks. There were no welds, all clamps, he mounted the tailpipe too far back so the axle hit its when the suspension compresses, he took both the heat shields off and now the exhaust being mounted so close to the gas tank is melting a hole through the plastic gas tank cover. And also he put a spacer on it to compensate for the shorter muffler, well I dont know what kind of steel he used, but 2 months later it already rusted through and I have an exhaust leak. And to add to all of this two of my exhaust hangers were so rusty they snapped the other day making my muffler and cat hang up on the crossmember and rattle like crazy.
Considering the whole thing at this point is just such a huge mess im going to take the entire thing off, manifold and all. Im thinking a stainless steel rugged ridge header, high flow cat and a new tailpipe, and ill re-use the Flowmaster 40 I have on it now and ill fab up some heavier duty exhaust hangers and see if I cant put a few more on for good measure, and im doing all the labor myself, first and last time I trust a mechanic with my Jeep.
Anyone have any tips on parts they have used that work well with relation to exhausts or is there some sort of a kit deal I can get for an OK price? Im not trying to be super cheap but I cant spend more than 5-600 dollars on the project, so just wondering what you guys think is a good deal and holds up and works well. I dont really care about stainless parts so much, im thik im going to coat everything in high heat paint before it goes in.
