Exhaust blow.

[REPLIC8]

I've just installed a stainless exhaust to my TR7 and it has a very slight blow out of one of the joints. I used exhaust paste on both surfaces when I assembled it. Don't really want to take it apart again. What the chances of it sealing itself up over time with use?



Andy
1981 TR7 FHC

[saabfast]

If it is on a socket and spigot joint with slots along the pipe this often happens. The exhaust fitters generally just hold some paste in the joint with the engine running so it sets quickly, same with any small circumferential leak where the pipes join.

Alan
Saab 9000 Stg 1 (now passed to son for his family car)
Saab 9000 2.3 FPT Auto (now gone that others might live)
Saab 9000 2.3 LPT Auto (sold on, wish I had it back)
Saab 9-5 2.3 Vector Auto Estate
'81 TR7 DHC

[Workshop Help]

Were I you, I'd have that joint welded up tight. Exhaust leaks are bad, bad, bad. No, that leak won't heal itself like the shaving cut on your chin.

Mildred Hargis

[Cobber]

Mildred do you get many shaving cuts on the chin? [:D]


"Keep calm, relax, focus on the problem & PULL THE BLOODY TRIGGER"

80'Triumph TR7, 73'Land Rover (Ford 351. V8),
'89 Ford Fairlane
'98 MG-F, 69'Ford F250.

[Workshop Help]

I hear all about it every morning as Abner stumbles in to breakfast. Littering the table with small chunks of bloody tissue tends to spoil the new day's ambiance.

Mildred Hargis

[busheytrader]

Unlike Abnor's shaving cuts I don't think it'll close up with time.......

[REPLIC8]

All fixed. [:)] Slackened off the clamp to the offending joint, slapped some exhaust paste in the slots and redone it with an extra clamp. Sounds lovely now, just a nice burble out of the tailpipe.



Andy
1981 TR7 FHC