Best way to attach exhaust pipe?

contradan

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My 1995 4runner's muffler is pretty much done and the pipes are rusted away, and im thinking about hacking an old muff off from the junk yard to replace it with. What is the best method to reattach the new exhaust pipe to the current pipe ends? I was thinking about using a hose clamp..would this hold/seal properly?

The reason i am doing this instead of replacing the entire system, south of the Catalytic Coverter, is that if i cant find an old T4R to grab the identical shape pipe from, ill just take any truck muffler, and swap it out in place of the old, hence, hacking and reattaching the pipes in odd places.
 
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Any mufler shop will bend new pipes and even put new mufler on for around $100. Why even bother with used exhaust? Besides if you want it done right - you got to have stuff welded.
 
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Any mufler shop will bend new pipes and even put new mufler on for around $100. Why even bother with used exhaust? Besides if you want it done right - you got to have stuff welded.

F that, roll with straight pipes
 
I dunno about 100$, last time i replaced the muffler and pipe on my Cherokee, it was 400 for the exact same parts that i need now.

Whats the deal with putting a muffler from some other V6 truck, maybe a GM or something on my Runner? Any implications, or is it basically gonna run the same?
 
contradan said:
Whats the deal with putting a muffler from some other V6 truck, maybe a GM or something on my Runner? Any implications, or is it basically gonna run the same?

The simple answer would be "it was designed for the 4Runner" vs a universal application or one off another vehicle.

A more elaborate answer would be are the displacement of the engine where your sourcing the muffler from the same as the 4Runner? Is that engine tuned the same way as the 4Runner's for top and low end power? There are probably more unanswered questions that an engine builder/tuner would know of.

It probably can be done and your 4Runner will run, but at what costs, not just monetary, but performance, driveability, etc.
 

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