Exhaust system rattles

[area53 at validpath.com (Jeff Toomasson)]

You should replace your motor mounts too if you haven't already...

> Wow, you guys are awesome!  New hangers sounds easy.
> 
> I think you're both right.  In addition to the hard metallic sounds coming 
> from the muffler area (likely axle beam), muted thumping from the handbrake
> area  is intermittantly audible.  When I looked under the car, I noticed
> the  resonator is leaving a mark in the soft aluminum heat shield in that
> area.  Hard to  say if it's new or not.
> 
> The new downpipe has a mostly rigid joint at the manifold.  If the primary 
> motion is up as the engine rotates forward, would putting the OEM flex
> joint  back in help solve this problem?
> 
> Grant
> 
> 
>> It is rattling on the rear axle beam. Get new rubber mounts and be done 
>> with it.
> 
> actually, it sounds like his exhaust is sitting too high back there,
> hitting  the fuel tank heat shield. the reason i say this is that its
> hitting while  coasting, where the engine torques forward, which causes the
> exhaust to  pivot upward. also, if his hangers arent vertical, there is
> less vertical  space per given hanger, which would also make the exhaust
> sit high. Al
> 
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