Make a Cheap Exhaust Fix

So if your exhaust ever falls off, it's generally good to pick up a few items to keep in your trunk, especially if you drive a beater, they're handy things to have anyway. All of these items can be purchased at your local hardware store for less than 30 dollars.

Steps

  1. Wait for your exhaust to cool off.
  2. Locate your jack in your car.
  3. Look under your car and find where the exhaust has fallen off.
  4. Locate a safe load point under your car.
  5. Jack up your car.
  6. Assess the damage.
  7. You will have one or maybe multiple problems.
    • You have broken or have a rotted off exhaust hanger.
      • Find the broken Exhaust Hanger and take it off (save it for later).
      • Locate a solid piece of metal that has at least 1/8 of an inch clearance on all sides.
      • Loop Metal Water Heater Strap Around Exhaust Pipe and Piece of metal mentioned in the previous step.
      • Pull Water Heater Strap Tight.
      • Loop Tie Wire through Holes in Strap.
      • Twist Tie Wire tight with Pliers.
      • Cut Off excess wire and strapping with Tin Snips.
    • Rusted out or Broken Weld joint.
      • Use Tin Snips to cut the Tin Can's bottom out.
      • Use Tin Snips to cut the Tin Can from one opening to the other.
      • Wrap Tin Can around Broken Weld.
      • Squeeze the Can down on to the Weld.
      • Loop two pieces of Tie Wire around each end of the can.
      • Tighten each wire so the can is snug and will not move.
      • Cut off excess wire.
    • A hole (either in the pipe or in a component).
      • Use Tin Snips to cut the Tin Can's bottom out.
      • Use Tin Snips to cut the Tin Can from one opening to the other.
      • Use Tin Snips to cut a Patch roughly twice the size of the hole.
      • Loop two pieces of Tie Wire around each end of the Patch and component/pipe.
      • Tighten each wire so the Patch is snug and will not move.
      • Cut off excess wire.

Tips

  • The piece of metal should be a pipe, bracket, open piece of frame, pretty much anything you can strap the pipe to.
  • These are instructions meant to be helpful. If you have any doubt as to your ability to fix your problem, see a mechanic.
  • Once you have a chance to let your car sit for 8 or more hours.
  • You can wait until the exhaust cools off and seal any exhaust leaks with JB-Weld or a similar product.

Things You'll Need

  • 1-Roll of 16 Gauge Re-bar Tie Wire
  • 1-Pair of Linesman's Pliers
  • 1-Roll of Metal Water Heater Strap
  • 3-Empty Tin Soup Cans or 1-Empty Paint Can
  • 1-Pair of Tin Snips
  • 1-Package or "JB" Weld

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