Vehicles with four-wheel drive:
- Vehicles without clamp between front muffler and rear muffler
- Loosen bolted connections on front clamps between catalytic converters and front muffler.
- Push exhaust system towards front of vehicle -arrow- so that right rear mounting on rear muffler is preloaded by a = 9 - 11 mm.
- Tighten bolts on front clamps between catalytic converters and front muffler evenly to 40 Nm; installation position. See INSTALLATION POSITION OF DOUBLE CLAMP AT FRONT .
Aligning tailpipes:
- Align tailpipes so that distance -a- is same on both sides.
- At same time, set distance -b- between bumper cut-out and bottom of tailpipes:
- Distance b = 97 - 103 mm
- Vehicles with clamp between front muffler and rear muffler
NOTE:
It is only necessary to additionally align the front muffler on vehicles with clamp installed between front muffler and rear muffler.
- Loosen bolted connections on front clamps between catalytic converters and front muffler.
- Push exhaust system towards front of vehicle -arrow- so that rear left mounting on front muffler is preloaded by a = 7 - 9 mm.
- Tighten bolts on front clamps between catalytic converters and front muffler evenly to 40 Nm; installation position. See INSTALLATION POSITION OF DOUBLE CLAMP AT FRONT .
- Push rear muffler towards front of vehicle -arrow- so that right rear mounting on rear muffler is preloaded by a = 9 - 11 mm.
- Tighten bolted connections on rear clamp between front muffler and rear muffler evenly to 40 Nm; installation position. See INSTALLATION POSITION OF DOUBLE CLAMP AT FRONT .
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Aligning tailpipes
- Align tailpipes so that distance -a- is the same on both sides.
- At the same time, set distance -b- between bumper cut-out and bottom of tailpipes:
- Distance b = 97 - 103 mm