In Praise Of Captive Nuts - Exhaust Silencer Mountings

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#1 In Praise Of Captive Nuts - Exhaust Silencer Mountings

Post by rfs1957 » Sun Nov 09, 2025 4:56 pm

One of the vilest jobs on my car was always re-hanging the exhaust silencers off those four rubber mountings.

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Getting washers and nuts onto the silencer side supports, where there is little depth and the access is difficult, was a B-I-T-C-H.

Gentlemen, I give you the solution.

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Don't ask Yvan-The-TIG to make any more of them, and don't ask me how much I paid him, because unpleasant sums fade quickly from my memory, but anyone with a bit of steel sheet, a vice, and a brazing torch, could make a reasonable fist of this.

However, NO, I'm afraid it doesn't change - much - the problem of the idiots supplying the Usuals making the rubber portion too close to the hole, such that you have to really FORCE the 1/2" socket onto the bolt head.

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#2 Re: In Praise Of Captive Nuts - Exhaust Silencer Mountings

Post by mgcjag » Sun Nov 09, 2025 5:02 pm

They look great....a large washer and a rivnut would do the job for any cheep skates out there :bigrin:
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#3 Re: In Praise Of Captive Nuts - Exhaust Silencer Mountings

Post by Gfhug » Sun Nov 09, 2025 6:05 pm

mgcjag wrote:
Sun Nov 09, 2025 5:02 pm
for any cheep skates out there :bigrin:
I was wondering why my ears were burning :wink: :bigrin:
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