Okay...this may sound stupid but I tried installing my new DPPI exhaust and ran into a problem. I couldn't get the clamp that holds the downpipe and the turbo elbow off. Is there some sort of trick to this? I loosened the bolt that holds it on easy enough, but I couldn't get the thing to come off. Is there something besides that one bolt that holds it on??

The rest of it looks pretty straight forward, but I finally had to give up because it started raining on me and I didn't want to fight with it in the rain.

Help??

-ForevergratefulHoss

 

If I remember right, I took the nut all the way off of mine. That allowed me to push that T-bolt all the way out the other side. Then the clamp separates easily enough to take it all the way off.

 

What he said, take the nut off and it falls off. Don't lose it, you'll need it.

Drive it to AZ and we'll finish it up!

 

As said earlier , you take the nut off , and then you will have to work a flatblade screwdriver and work in between the clamp wedge and the exh. pipe to break it loose, there is 3 sections to break loose around the pipe.

 

I got the nut off and took the bolt out. I guess what I didn't do was stick the screwdriver in there to work it loose. I wasn't expecting it to be stuck the way it was and then it started raining so I just put the bolt and nut back on and called it quits for the night.

Another thing I discovered was that the stock exhaust is NOT one continuous piece. It is four sections (including muffler) held together with clamps just like the DPPI exhaust is. That should make it easy to remove without cutting it and it also gives me the opportunity to ship it in the same box my DPPI exhaust came in when I sell it on Ebay.

Thanks for the help.

 

Heh - good luck. Those clamps crimp the pipes together, and they do NOT want to come apart.

Do yourself a favor, and ditch the saddle clamps that probably came with your new exhaust. Go on down to NAPA, and get some 4" stainless steel slip-joint band clamps. These are made by Torca. The part number is 733-3224. They seal better than the saddle clamps, they don't crimp the pipe, and they make future disassembly very easy.

 

Will they slide over the expanded part of the pipe?? The pipes are flared on one end so that the other pipe can slide into it, so it's slightly larger than 4".

 

Yep - that's what they're designed for. Have a look at them here: http://www.torcausa.com/TorcTite.htm

It's funny that I post about the ease of disassembling an exhaust system today, and what happens on my way home from work? Somehow, the hanger for the tailpipe worked it's way out of the hanger, and I was dragging it on the ground. Too bad it was daylight - it would have thrown some nice sparks

Anyhow, got the truck home, removed one of the clamps, and took the tailpipe section out. I guess it actually fell off in my office parking lot, and when backing into a parking space, I caught it on the ground, and bent the heck out of the tailpipe section, right where it bends up and over the axle. Since I was able to remove this section, I put it in my press, and roughly bent it back into a round shape (it was almost pinched flat).

Had I used the stock saddle clamps, and cinched them down so the pipes didn't leak, I wouldn't have been able to remove the tailpipe without resorting to rather barbaric methods.

 

Very nice. I'll have to check with my local Napa store and see if they stock them. Hopefully they do because it looks like it would be a better way to clamp it....assuming you can get enough squeeze on them to actually hold the pipes together.

 

Hoss,

When we have one like that we usually just stick a long bar in the open end of the down pipe and give it a good pull, that breaks the seal with the turbo and then the down pipe falls down and hits you in the face!!!

Mark @ DPPI

 

when i did my exhaust, i loosened up the "v" band clamp real good and with a long screwdriver and hammer, smacked it and it poped open.

 

Mark....I may try your method too....although I'd prefer not getting hit in the face.

Tonight....maybe.