Rippers

Been fooking struggleling to get my exhaust back on today

Those fooking rubber exhaust mounts are a *$£@~#

Some tips and advise please

kjc300

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washing up liquid or other soap stuff on the rubbers!! Just fit everything up loose first. They are complete cooonts when not on a ramp!!

Rippers

Your telling me I soo sore and bruised < real tears

Does the fairy liquid just make everything slippery... including your hands grip

ozcos

I had real grief when fitting harder polly ones and found the only way was to bend the lip straight and re-bend after fitment. Rubber ones normally go on with a little persusian and wd40.

kjc300

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Just try to put the soap either on the hanger itself, or just in the hole on the rubber it's going into. A flat blade screwdriver sometimes helps too - but be fooking careful with it!!

I had a nightmare with mine - just bought a new mongoose centre section for mine as the old one was fooked!! The coonts have obviously changed the design since I bought it cos it was 2" longer at the downpipe end and 1" longer at the other!!

I just chopped 3" off the downpipe itself!!! Actually it sorted a couple of other clearance issues as an unexpected bonus so a happy ending........

But still a cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooont!!

THE RADMAN

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they are easy compared to polys,now they are hard work you can always get some special exhaust hanger pliers as a last resort i normally thread a long thin s/driver through the hole ,lever it round o nto the hanger and turn /twist to pop it on

MONSTER

what he said

dojj

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seconded

Rene

always a bitch to do LOL had to call in the missus to help me LOL

Rippers

I had actually considered benting the tabs.. which I'd done it now

Gonna give it another go later in the week (only got two more to do)

AJC

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did mine on saturday night at 1 am, killer job, no skin left on left knuckles

AJC

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and lets not forget that when i was tightening the exhaust clamp,

rachet slips and hit me straight in the gob, had sore teeth up until tonight,

thought id lost one of them

Rippers

Worst cossie job there is

kjc300

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Oh no it isnt!!! But it is up there!!!!


Did the front diff in situe once, took ages to wriggle the fookin thing out. put it back in, bolted up the back diff bolt - then went to put the front one in and found you can't get the bolt in due to the steering column!!

Had to take it back out again to put the bolt in first!! Then it was an overhead arm ache turning the bolt one flat at a time, turning the spanner around each time to get the angle of dangle!!

Anything to do with the front anti rollbar I hate too - especially tca's!!

Rippers

Yeah that ARB is c-nut aswell

cahzz

jesus ive just changed my standard exhaust on my escos to to mongy and MY GOD every single part of my body was aching took me days to get it on properly!!! in the end i went to ford and brought all new hangers so i could just chop the old ones off, but i used wd40 and it made life alot easier, and i used alot of brute force!!!! ive got my MOT due at the end of october and im dreading putting the standard unit back on so much that i going to take my car to someone to have a 100 cell race car put in, so i can forget about it!!!

dave cos4x4

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i normally jack it up near the hanger points and use washing up liqud.

the rear one behing the rear bumper is the worst!!

Rippers

Done the bastard cheers for the advise guys


Not when you take the rear bumper off I'll put it back on tomorrow

THE RADMAN

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thats cheating,lol