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Title: heavy duty exhaust rubbers
Post by: richard s on 14 June 2007, 21:29

my back box rear rubber snapped today on my way home from work so i changed it and as i was laid on my wet drive in the rain wrestling a new one on i wondered if there was any heavy duty ones i could get so does anyone know if i can get some and where from as next time i will probably end up laid in a foot of snow doing the same thing (nowt ever goes wrong when the sun shines does it)

Title: Re: heavy duty exhaust rubbers
Post by: ...joe on 14 June 2007, 21:33

i want to know this too, genuine vw ones don't last that long either. you can buy ones with chains built in them but apparently they're not much cop anf the poly ones are sh!te.

Title: Re: heavy duty exhaust rubbers
Post by: Mew on 14 June 2007, 21:38

Maybe ask at a local powerflow place? Some of those systems can weigh a ton, so i guess they must use something more beefy than a standard rubber!

Title: Re: heavy duty exhaust rubbers
Post by: cняis on 14 June 2007, 21:44

 tried cable ties? ratchet straps? elastic bands? :cool:

Title: Re: heavy duty exhaust rubbers
Post by: tri on 14 June 2007, 23:22

Quote from: Crevice on 14 June 2007, 21:44

tried cable ties? ratchet straps? elastic bands? :cool:

sorry to hi jack but are they legal cause i'v just found out mines held on with them

Title: Re: heavy duty exhaust rubbers
Post by: neil68 on 15 June 2007, 00:05

Powerflex make them for the font and rear, but the o shaped ones for the sides are a few mill bigger so dont know if they are any good. :smiley:

Title: Re: heavy duty exhaust rubbers
Post by: Mart8V on 15 June 2007, 07:57

Used to have an Impreza with a 'kin heavy system on it.  Used a pair of Halfrauds loops cable tied together on each mount- worked a treat and lasted for ages.

Title: Re: heavy duty exhaust rubbers
Post by: cняis on 15 June 2007, 12:50

Quote from: Mart8V on 15 June 2007, 07:57

Used to have an Impreza with a 'kin heavy system on it.  Used a pair of Halfrauds loops cable tied together on each mount- worked a treat and lasted for ages.

I was actually joking about cable ties...  :huh:

Title: Re: heavy duty exhaust rubbers
Post by: Mart8V on 15 June 2007, 13:13

Quote from: Crevice on 15 June 2007, 12:50

Quote from: Mart8V on 15 June 2007, 07:57

Used to have an Impreza with a 'kin heavy system on it.  Used a pair of Halfrauds loops cable tied together on each mount- worked a treat and lasted for ages.

I was actually joking about cable ties...  :huh:

Used the tie to keep the two loops together around the middle, which limited the stretch.  Cheap but effective!

Title: Re: heavy duty exhaust rubbers
Post by: Gambit on 15 June 2007, 16:16

get a big jubilee clip and tightend it round the rubber thats what i done on mine

if you look real close at this pic you can just about see the jubilee clip going over teh top of the rubber hanger and coming back down round the back of it - works a treat

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/Moddie/Details/MK2%20GTi/26.jpg)

Title: Re: heavy duty exhaust rubbers
Post by: rubjonny on 18 June 2007, 10:54

I used jubilee clips on the 2 main hangers on mine as well, works a treat!

Title: Re: heavy duty exhaust rubbers
Post by: richard s on 19 June 2007, 20:16

the rear hanger on gambits looks different to mine
i think i will try powerflow first as i have one close to me and if they use standard mounts i will be trying to fit some jubilee clips cheers for all the responses 

Title: Re: heavy duty exhaust rubbers
Post by: rubjonny on 19 June 2007, 22:25

My ernst backbox had a non-vw hanger on it and it sat a bit low, using some lateral thinking I fitted a ford bracket & rubber which is much stronger and it sits nicely now  :cool:
(http://vwtech.no-ip.info/images/golf/zausthanger.jpg)

Title: Re: heavy duty exhaust rubbers
Post by: richard s on 21 June 2007, 20:43

what ford did you get the bracket from john

Title: Re: heavy duty exhaust rubbers
Post by: rubjonny on 21 June 2007, 23:34

was a ford escord, the later roundy one, from just in front of the rear beam :)

Title: Re: heavy duty exhaust rubbers
Post by: Chris-White on 22 June 2007, 14:09

as other people have said, i put a jubillee clip round my rear exhaust rubber, works a treat, and stops any large bouncing movement in the exhaust

Title: Re: heavy duty exhaust rubbers
Post by: richard s on 22 June 2007, 20:45

cheers guys

Title: Re: heavy duty exhaust rubbers
Post by: Outlaw-Torn on 10 July 2007, 12:35

I've got ford exhaust hangers on mine too, credit where it's due ford seem to make pretty heavy duty hangers. Plus theres a lot more fords in the scrappers than there are Vws  :evil:

Title: Re: heavy duty exhaust rubbers
Post by: jammac on 11 July 2007, 07:50

TSK FORDS!!!!! probably the only part of em that wont rust!  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh: