Re: Mike's 53 Caribbean

Posted by Packard Don On 2024/2/16 15:16:47

The one in the photo looks terribly misaligned which will eventually cause it to fail so it seems some bending and/or adjustment of the system is in order. Also, originally both the pipe and the muffler had a hole into which a tapered pin from the mount clamp kept everything in place without the need of excessive tightening. By now, these pins are often gone (cut off by owners or exhaust shops) but I made sure they were all there when I recently installed the exhaust system in my 1951 Henney-Packard which from the muffler forward is the same as yours.

Not a great photo and you’ll have to zoom in to see it but the clamp should be level when everything is properly aligned. The bottom of the pin where it was swaged on is visible between the two clamp nuts.