CC Wordless Outtake: Hangin’ Out
– Posted on March 29, 2012
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Hope it dont get too hot wire coat hangers are preferred for exhaust repairs
Hanging on precariously. by a thread. that would is gonna snap any minute.
Sometimes you just have to work with what you’ve got.
lol. One of my exhaust hangers is broken – now I have an idea of how to fix it.
I’ve fixed a hanging exhaust with a wire hanger but never occurred to me to use a wood one!
“Waddya lookin at? Ain’t ya never seen an exhaust hanger?”
Shortly after I bought my old 1960 220S sedan in 1967, we were driving it on a trip in Oregon, and noticed that the exhaust note had suddenly gotten louder. We pulled over and I discovered that the exhaust pipe, most likely not original, had rusted through right in front of the muffler, which was under the trunk not far from the bumper. The only hangers were at the back of the muffler and near the transmission. Since it was a Saturday and we were in Sweet Home, not the most populous area of the state, I went to a service station and had the guy saw off the pipe at a downward angle just in front of the rear axle hump. I suspected that without the weight of the muffler and the rest of the tailpipe it would survive until we returned home. Sure enough we did make it without any further incident. That was one loud Mercedes sedan though, to the point that we were probably lucky not to get hassled by cops.
What about a soda can and two hose clamps? That’s how I fixed holes in the exhaust on my ’93 Buick Century in high school.