Exhaust System: Service and Repair

Exhaust System, Installing

• Align exhaust system when cold.

• Tightening specifications, refer to => [ Muffler Assembly Overview ] Muffler Assembly Overview.

Vehicles without double clamps between center and rear muffler

- Loosen the bolts on the front clamping sleeves.

- Push exhaust system far enough forward - arrow - until pre-load on retaining loops at right on rear mufflers is - a - = 5 to 9 mm.





- Tighten the clamping sleeve threaded connections evenly.

- Align the tail pipes. Refer to => [ Align the tail pipes ] [1][2]Exhaust Pipe.

Vehicles with double clamps between center and rear muffler

• Only for vehicles with clamping sleeves between center and rear mufflers, the center muffler must also be aligned.

- Loosen the bolts on the front and rear clamping sleeves.

- Push front section of exhaust system far enough forward - arrow - until pre-load on retaining loops at center muffler - a - = 5 to 9 mm.





- Tighten the front clamping sleeve threaded connections evenly.

- Push rear part of exhaust system far enough forward - arrow - so that the pre-tension at rear retaining loops of rear mufflers is - a - = 5 to 9 mm.





- Align rear muffler horizontally.

- Tighten the rear clamping sleeve threaded connections evenly.

- Align the tail pipes. Refer to => [ Align the tail pipes ] [1][2]Exhaust Pipe.