Can you link to a picture of the clamp you have in mind?
WILTON <wilt...@nc.rr.com> wrote:
>ATTABOY coming up! How 'bout a wide plumbing clamp with some muffler
>seal
>putty ('don't know what it's called) gooped under it between clamp and
>pipe?
>There are some plumbing clamps that already have the "can" attached to
>them.
>
>Wilton
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Max Dillon" <meadedil...@bellsouth.net>
>To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
>Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 8:05 PM
>Subject: [MBZ] How I spent my Saturday
>
>
>Went over to a friends place and made a more permanent fix to my
>exhaust
>situation. You may remember that the catalytic converter rusted and
>broke,
>so I cut it out and tried to substitute with a straight pipe. Never
>could
>get all the joints to seal, poor car sounded like it had a rice burner
>fart
>can exhaust.
>
>Price of a new converter from MB is north of $1600, not an option for
>me.
>
>Fellow on the MBCA forum gave me some info on Magnaflow aftermarket
>converters for diesel engines. Found one for $90 from O'reilly, so I
>ordered that and a bunch of adapters. We also used some of the
>original
>muffler pipe (I had earlier replaced both the resonator and the
>exhaust).
>
>All told, about $130 in parts, then about four hours for the two of us
>to
>fit the pieces up and weld it together.
>
>My only beef is the connection to the two front pipes (coming from the
>exhaust manifold). Hard to find a good match from metric exhaust to
>American exhaust pipe sizes. I've got two exhaust clamps there, but it
>
>still leaks a bit. Probably need to cut up a can and wrap a few layers
>to
>fill up the gaps and get a better seal.
--
Max Dillon
Charleston, SC
'95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20
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