Rear muffler issue??

[B4chacon]

Hi all,

My rear muffler seems to have come loose. I am including a few pictures of the issue (please see attachements). Does anyone know if this needs a simple metal pin I can order? Once again, any help is always appreciated.

 

[mikebontoft]

Is that rubber hanger torn apart at the bottom hole? your muffler just slides into that part.

 

[oljedi11950]

Pics hard to tell ?

Any muffler shop can fix that for a cpl bucks, weld a new hanger on no big . But I can't tell if its the muffler or resonator ?

 

[mikebontoft]

^^ what is there to weld? I don't see anything broken but maybe I'm not looking at it right.

 

[oljedi11950]

Pics hard to tell ?

10-4 put my reading glasses on ! ya looks like it just backed out somehow .

 

[mikey's2010SR5]

Yeah nothing looks wrong besides the hanger slipping out. Push the muffler over to the rubber hanger and slide it back in.

 

[mikebontoft]

Push the muffler over to the rubber hanger and slide it back in.

That's what she said.

Yes, I went there.:doh:

 

[TechWrench]

It is a bit hard to tell, but from the first pic, it looks like the resonator and the welded hanger post no longer line up with the suspending support rubber bushing on the frame. It appears if the entire assy., may have been pushed forward, toward the front of the vehicle, and no longer lines up. If this is the case, then the most likely reason is someone backed into something and hit the tail pipe, which pushed the assy., forward (probably bending the pipe as it goes over the rear axle). This is not the first time I have heard/seen this happen to someone. The only solutions are to pull the resonator assy back to the rear to correct the bent pipe, find a way to extend the post on the resonator so it will again reach the hanger, or replace the rear resonator/pipe assy.

 

[B4chacon]

Thanks all for the info

Well, I fixed the muffler this last weekend. I appreciate everyone pitching in their ideas