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[Dom]

drove to school this morning, people looked at the car as they do but looked at it more so and laughed as my exhaust was dangling off!!!! i didnt know at the time but carried on driving to school. (im used to the sound of things dangling around because of things in the boot not fastened down) but this time it was the exhaust. I then drove the car back home at 20 mph with hazards on and carefully brought the car home. I got out had a look and the bracket has gone, i think its just that but not sure how it happend because it was like that in the morning. mysterious.

Im now thinking whether to get the rest of the car fixed while the bracket gets mended, that includes the welding etc. Oh and for a brief time my indicators stopped working what a morning!!!

oh and i just made it into school on time

[lewis]

nice one minicooperman

[Dom]

driving up the ramps

[Dom]

exhaust held on... just

[Dom]

is that right?

bracket not fastened on.

[dklawson]

It took me FOREVER to load those three pictures! Whoosh!

Your car is much later than mine. On the early cars there is a squarish rubber brick that mounts to the front of the rear subframe. A tisted dangly piece of steel descends from that to a clamp on the pipe between the front and rear silencers. (No welding). At the rear, there should be a sort of triangular hanger that attaches to the back of the subframe with two cotton-reel rubber isolators. The other end of the hanger should be secured to the tailpipe with a single clamp. Again, no welding.

I carry a lot of junk to fix my cars if they break down on the road. There are two amazingly useful things to carry. First, a set of disposable tools (cheap ones you don't car if they are lost, damaged, or stolen. I have a set in a blow molded case I can tie to the underside of the passenger seat). The second thing is a wire coat hanger. You'd be amazed how handy these are. Picture this, instead of your cloth securing the tailpipe, a length of coat hanger passing through or arround the subframe and then looped around the pipe to hold it up. It could last until your next MOT (if that's legal where you are)!

Glad you made it home without loosing anything!

[Alex1380]

i have a center exit DTM but when i got it i didn't get any brackets, so i made one from universal exhaust bracket, its like a lenght of steel with lots of holes in it i bent in to shap but the waight was to much for it and one day mine droped off doing 40mph the pipe hit the ground and came of the manifold. leaving a 2 week old stainless steel playmini exhust in the middle of the A6. so picked the pipe up took it to the side of the road and waited for it to cool then put it in the car and drove home with no back box. made alot of noise but not much power. so i made a new bracket out of ally L section which is bent and welded together and bolted to the subframe.
ar the joys of Minis
Alex.
P.s. please some on reply to my arch post.

[Dom]

thanks doug, i do have a tool set in the boot of the car.

thanks alex, making my own that could be a good idea.

what i was trying to fo was lift the exhaust higher into the bodywork because im so annoyed with the middle box scraping every speed hump i crawl over.

is there a soluton? is there another exhaust i can buy to stop this or does everyone have this trouble?

[Dom]

UPDATE: now sorted the exhaust is higher off the ground . i.e. i can now drive my mini again. exhaust bracket sorted but it was not as simple as it sounds.

While i was studying away at school my dad went hunting around for 3 hours during school time (hes a teacher) and finally found the 2 nuts needed to hold the cotten reel in the picture to clamp the exhaust on. He tried ATS, Halfords, Barrats, and Parkco who supplied the orignal cotton reel but nobody could supply the nuts or even tell him what they were. Eventually he went to Kwick Fit who supplied the 2 nuts free of charge

[Dom]

here are some pics of me at work

[Dom]

at this point my neck was killing me

[lewis]

the joys of a mechanic, strained necks haha. Well done for sorting it mcm