Exhaust Pipe: Service and Repair

Muffler Inlet Pipe

Removal and Installation
1. With the vehicle in NEUTRAL, position it on a hoist. For additional information, refer to Maintenance/Service and Repair.
2. Loosen the Torca coupler and disconnect the muffler inlet pipe from the catalytic converter assembly. Discard the Torca coupler.





3. Loosen the muffler clamp and disconnect the muffler from the muffler inlet pipe.
4. Remove the intermediate pipe from the vehicle.
5. Slide the muffler into the isolators.

6. NOTE: Install a new exhaust clamp.

Connect the intermediate pipe into the muffler.
7. Place the new Torca coupler over the intermediate pipe. Position the intermediate to the catalytic converter, slide the Torca coupler into position until the converter button is sealed into the muffler notch.





8. Tighten the exhaust clamp.
^ The exhaust clamp should be installed so that it is up to, but not over, the bottom of the notches.
^ Tighten to 47 Nm (35 ft. lbs.).
9. Push the muffler forward to fully seat the pipe in the coupler.
^ Verify the intermediate pipe is inserted into the coupler correctly. Correct installation is achieved when coupler terminates in knurled region of the intermediate pipe. The knurled section on the intermediate pipe must be at coupler lip.
10. Tighten the coupler nuts.
^ Alternately tighten, in 10 Nm (89 inch lbs.) increments.
^ Tighten to 47 Nm (35 ft. lbs.).