I put new dual exhaust with glass packs on my square body chevy and I clamped it. It's been sounding awesome for over 8 years now

The places where the pipe is welded always seems to be the first spot to rust.

I've never seen dual muffs mounted vertical like this, not to mention how clean the rest of the job is.

Personally, I like to put a clamp on each side of the muffler in 99-06 Silverado and Sierras and weld everything else. The reason being, if for whatever reason the exhaust needs to come out, it can be dismantled easily in 3 main pieces.

I put em on both ways. They make some really nice clamps now and if take the time to swell and fit the pipe,it comes in handy when you take a Y pipe off to remove a transmission and put it back on without welding and cutting

I do 3 bolt flanges on the ones I do so i can remove the transmission withoug having to cut the exhaust off. Keeps it serviceable

Up north you can't weld the exhaust, you have to clamp it because it'll rust if you weld it

I got away with using exhaust clamps a lot of times, I hacked my exhaust up one time clamped it together with scrap and had to weld the clamp to fill the gap 🤣

Say the 200k miles again to the people at home in Michigan.

Good job! maybe some of us youngsters will pick up on it, I know I will.

200k huh. Ever been to Minnesota

2017 Ram 1500 stock exhaust is band clamps, for the muffler.

God forbid you want to change the sound up out of that miraculous 200-300k mile exhaust system though!

This is beautiful!

In Santa Rosa CA we have a muffler shop welded exhaust system back in 1955 .

What is that box for my truck doesn’t have one?

A friend with a 62 Buick had put the points in wrong. Cranked and pumped the gas for so long. I spotted the issue and told him to try it. Kaboom. A massive explosion under the car. My pants legs were flapping like i was riding a motorcycle. I laid down and looked under the car and started laughing. I was laughing so hard my ribs were cramping. Yes i was rolling on the ground laughing my azz off. He got out of the car and started kicking me. Stop laughing at my car. I'm not laughing at your car. I am laughing at how you are ever going to explain that to midas for a 2 hour old muffler in for a warranty. The muffler skin was laying flat on the ground. That muffler skin stayed nailed to the midas shop wall for the next 20 years.

Can I weld any muffler vertically ?

Do you install full stainless exhaust system?

Sounds like a time I would’ve loved to live in

Last longer why is that you didn’t explain why. I put my exhaust on my Escalade in 10 minutes whit clamp on never had a problem in fact now with everything welded if there’s a problem with any part now you need to replace the hole thing or cut the part off instead of two bolts an it pops out

And heaven forbid you want to take the exhaust out for any reason, like so you can reuse it out after an engine/transmission swap. The factory isn't doing what's better, they're just doing what makes them more money on repairs, and is cheaper going down the assembly line. Hard to admit in the 21st century, but sometimes the old timers knew what they were doing.

O seriously!!! good luck. if any engine makes it but a diesel now a days makes it more then 200.000 miles . is a serious miracle !

Boy i remember i had a 66 Galaxie 427 duel.quads 4 speed 456 gears. With Cherry bombs off the collectors. Loud loud. Back in the 70s

If you're talking the old guillotine style clamps, then yeah don't use those. But modern band clamps are awesome and actually let you take stuff apart later. I tend to switch out mufflers after awhile and band clamps make that super easy.

You need struts on your garage door sections..

Steer clear of the Kmart specials on auto repairs

I have a 69 torino. Cherry Boomb since 1977 still on there. Blaa black sure been a long year

What about the cross over pipe

Was the pipe work done in house?.

I got a jon boat from monkeywards title is from the 70s.....thing still hits the lake every summer .joker is heavy buy built to last

I never had a problem with a clamp

Man I put on 1 years at Meineke in the early 90s for &19.95.

I got clamps on my 70 Lemans older than you are. 😂

I got over 200K before the muffler went on my Pontiac. Then I had a shop weld on a Flow Master to the stock pipe.

My jeep has a clamped muffler since 2001. Muffler is rusted out but clamps are holding tight… nothing wrong with owners clamping things… exhaust shops on the other hand need to weld. Thats what you’re getting paid to do.

If it got 200 300k miles then i wouldnt need to be repairing it with ubolts and hose clamps now would I? Factory doesnt mean right

Mine is clamped and cobbled. And it's going strong at two hundred and forty seven thousand 😮

Bring on the stash!

Truth

I live in Arkansas and few people have mufflers, or they are almost all chopped off or dragging the ground. Mostly going to and from meth houses.

In my experience were the muffler is welded will be the first to fail! I will never have another muffler welded on. Exhaust pipe is different

Back in the old days of Muffler of the pipe the clam all came to maybe $10 today you're looking at $1,000 it better last a long time

I just use clamps cause I’m too lazy to get out the welder

I'm going to make an appointment at Kmart quality work 559 get er done😅😅

The materials is probably a bigger reason than weld vs clamps. Old days everything rusted out and fell off.

Clamps👍

Good luck with 300,000 out of new shit

If it’s 400 series stainless you’ll get that many years! But in the rust belt maybe 10 yrs

So you warranty all of your exhaust systems for 2 or 300,000 miles against rust??? You must do a lot of warranty work because those vertical muffflers are going to rot out way before that.

So you're implying that a welded muffler will last much longer than a clamped muffler? I can absolutely attest from personal experience that is 100% not true.

Dude this guy looks like Steve Irwin wtf 😱

Factory exhaust is the best....

VW Audi uses clamps OEM

Never would it last that long here in the northeast,all the treatment put on the roads in the winter time. That slurry stuff they put down is awful,if you don't wash it off after every winter it eats metal like nothing. Stuff literally sticks to everything and leaves a coating on everything.

How are you going to get 300k out of that exhaust system when that car doesn't have 300k left in it .

That's all great if its stainless, but if you live in the rust belt, that system will NOT last no 2 or 300,000 miles! Welded or clamped. Guaranteed!

Ahh what exhaust shop don't weld exhaust pipes...

Factory exhaust is not welded there clamped

It worked better and longer than you think kid

Stainless maybe

My dad would never buy a chevy ever!

Yup I actually remember when Kmart used to do that.

Not in Michigan

Just to let people know if AU bolt cannot hold your exhaust how come you can hold your axle on?

Looks stainless.

How much have you had to drink tonight?

80.000

Those two mufflers side by side like that are gonna catch and hold so much crap and rot out in a year or two

My issue is every welded exhaust i’ve seen is full of boogers and splattered everywhere

Garbage shops weld everything, now its not serviceable or removable for other work to be done. Always pie cut and use flat band clamps. And , no flowmaster will last that long, they rot out, especially if theyre the knock offs

unless that's stainless steel. ain't no way you'll get over 200000miles.

What about a car that will last that long

not as a daily in the rust belt

Montgomery wards auto center,,,,,it was more like $59ask me how i know

Hangs so low. You should tie some rolor skates on it

It’s cheaper for you to weld! Don’t BS folks

Join the 20th century? I think you're of by 100 years, join the 21st century.

2-300k miles huh? And it'll cost ya a months pay to get it

The hole in the muffler after a year makes it sound racy

Just wait you will have problems with welding those Mufflers together

The install looks great! Please don't say those are Garbage Master Flow Junkster mufflers. If so, why would you drive something that sounds like your Grandpa farting? Keep up the pro looking install, just dump the FM brand!

Not in the salt 3 years

But you won't get two or three hundred thousand out of the truck....

American Crocodile Dundee

Welding then is all good till you have to change the cat

2 or 300k really. Everything sounded good till you said that bs

Who cares what you do or how you do it you say

Sorry pal , but I can't agree with you .

Factorys have always OEM welded them only shitty lil shops use clamp

2 200,000/300,000 miles …? Do you have any proof of this? Or is that just subjective guess.? Have you actually had any last that long as what I’m asking? Do you know the old saying… Trust, but verify…!