Saab 9-3 SportCombi, Exhaust heat shield rattling. (long post) #ActualCarWork
the one place i don’t like to work under a car is on gravel i think most will agree. Our garage was busy installing a 2 post car lift and it was just a mess in there so i had to deal with it outside.
i had to remove the exhaust and i discovered that the rubber mounts was a bit to loose.
i was able to get out the heat shield whit no problem and i think you can tell why.
i decided to cut the original attachment points away well most of them that i could reach because there was no longer any thread do to all the rust.
so i drilled some new holes and sprayed rust protection paint then squeezed in some rivet nuts.
how it looks like from above, i put them where they support the exhaust shield the best and evenly.
didn’t have any big washers so i got some thin metal squares for the time being the heatshield need to be replaced anyway they worked out pretty good but not the nicest look i must admit.
Nice and clean and some wd-40 in the rivet nuts so i don’t have any problems later on.
I also vacuumed the trunk space and it looks alot better
looks alot better, normally don’t show of all car work that goes on but i might upload more like this insted of spamming the comments with content. XD and any advise to create better content is always appreciated thanks for reading.
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Nice to see someone working on gravel even though its a pain in the ass xD
Not that much of a problem whit some thicc work pants 😂