Ram 1500 Exhaust Flange Repair
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- I had sometime today to fix my 2019 Dodge Ram 1500 Tradesman. She was starting to finally sound like a real truck again, but unfortunately it probably won’t pass inspection. In this video I’ll show you my way to repair a broken exhaust flange bolt.
Wow awsome. Thanks for sharing and your time
Thanks for the feedback. Hopefully it helped.
Amazing, this just happen to mine a couple of weeks ago. 2019 ram Thanks for the video. need to find a video for taking the bolt out. Dealership wants $400.
I’m kicking myself for not shooting that part. I will when I do the second one. My suggestion is heat the bolt up so you can either snap the head off or the bolt comes out. If not, once the head comes off, cut the threaded side off as close to the flange as you can. Then use a center punch to create a small dimple in the center of the cut bolt. Start with a small bit, and work your way up to a size that doesn’t damage the thread flange, but reduces the wall size of the bolt. Then use a chisel to collapse the wall of the bolt inward. After you get the bolt out, then just retap the threads.
@@kurtT342 thanks
The bolt failure is called Galvonic Corrosion between carbon steel and stainless steel. Stainless steel absorbs carbon steels electrons the conductor is water, moisture! do not put carbon steel bolts back in for the repair. go get stainless steel bolts. The exhaust system is stainless steel right along with the mounting flange notice no surface rust on the pipe! The top fastener broke on my 2021 ram so I was left with the stud I have an acetylene torch I put the heat to the flange area around the broken stud until cherry red quickly grabbed vice grips to screw it out it took several heat ups because stainless steel dissipates heat very fast. I also replaced the lower fastener,
(First wire brush the exposed threads on unbroken bolt. I spent $ 20.00 for all the stainless steel fastens. Service garage charges $90. per Hour 3 hour estimated time to repair. so purchase a torch set and you will eventually pay it off in labor savings. 🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾
Luv the feedback and education! That’s why I started this channel so we can all learn from each other. Stainless it is!
Very helpful
Looks good to me 😊.