Exhaust Question

[dragan54]

Just crawled under my truck to see where the exhaust noise was coming from. . The exhaust pipe is rusted through at the clamp in front of the muffler.



That is kind of a strange place for it to go bad?



04 2500 all original exhaust with 125,000

 

[BIGNASTY]

My 04 did the same thing I to thought what a strange place. I just replaced the whole thing with one of Stans. Headers exhaust sounds great and no DROOOOOOON. Had it on for 15k and the install was real easy.

 

[jgillott]

Not uncommon at all on these things. Our '04. 5 had the pipe rust through in that spot in a little over 3 years. I replaced it, as well as the one on my '07, with a good quality 304 stainless system. In fact, I think there is a MBRP on the '04. 5 and a Silverline on the '07. If you are going to keep your truck for any length of time, I highly recommend spending the money on a good system now so you don't have to worry about it again.

 

[dragan54]

Thanks for the great answers. Will look into your recommendations. I will be keeping it for a while.

 

[SDrake]

My 04 did the same thing I to thought what a strange place. I just replaced the whole thing with one of Stans. Headers exhaust sounds great and no DROOOOOOON. Had it on for 15k and the install was real easy.

Man I am on a bigtime quest to kill the DROOOOOOON. What is this Stans solution?



My system is getting ready to do what has been described and I want to kill the DROOOOOOON when I replace it.