To celebrate the new year (and to have an excuse to spend some time with my garaged car before next April), I want to take off and thoroughly clean the exhaust tips on my 2007 C2S cab. Any tricks or traps for the unwary in doing so? Are the bolts usually seized after a few years? need WD40 or something else to loosen? is realigning tricky? do they need to be tourqued to a certain amount when reattached?

Thanks in advance!
Jon

 

Pretty simple.

If bolts are tight with some corrosion - use WD40.

 

I just did it for the first time a few weeks ago. Super easy. Just loosen the bolt, 13mm?, and wiggle off.... clean.... wiggle on and tighten.

 

pb blaster works the best

 

..and while you have them off, do what I did. Sand/scuff them. Using high temp primer, put on a nice base coat, then using high temp flat black, put on a nice overcoat! Looks really good on my black car, but I admit I don't like anything shiny..except a coat of paint, I guess. (I have to admit, this suggestion is coming from a person who changed out the chrome window/windshield trim on my '00 740i to "shadowline" to get rid of the shine...)

 

Thanks, all. Just took them off and cleaned them with steel wool and comet. I have to say, one was a bear to get off, and took me 10-15 minutes of hard wiggling! It also helped to use a flat-blade screwdriver to open the clamp a little. They look better though they still have some discoloration, and I may eventually replace them.

I bet the black looks great with the black car -- not sure if it would look as good on my meteor gray.

Thanks, again.
Jon

 

I have matt black and love the combo.

 

I have same year c2s and was about to ask the same question. Can you post oics before and after?

 

wether they are stainless or chrome, all thats necessary is to rub them with light rubbing compound. no need to take them off.

 

Hey Harvey....going back to the track soon? I'm considering the AutoX in Sarasota next weekend.

 

Hi Mike,

I believe their is a DE at Sebring the end of February. Not sure when it is open to register. You got me hooked.

You need to autox next Sunday. I would love to test my autox skills against you. And I will have those funky looking wheels on.

 

Old thread, same problem and I could use some help. On the driver side I've loosened the bolt pretty well after spraying WD40 this week, on the passenger side unfortunely after a few more twist the rusty bolt broke of. If think it's the part below the lower sleeve but I'm not 100% sure. I'll have to deal with that but first, for the driver side, although I think it should be loose enough I'm having a hard time getting it off. I just sprayed WD40 in the gap and can try again tomorrow but is there any other new trick to this? See in the picture how far I can pull. It wiggles really well now that it's a bit lubricated but no dice pulling it out.

 

It'll come just wiggle it as your pulling back, lean your weight back a little, dont try to just forearm it. Change the hardware to stainless too.

 

I think the inner sleeve (olive) is stuck to the pipe so probably gonna try a cold chisel and hammer

 

Ok done, what did it was the cold chisel and hammer. It wasn’t too bad once the inner sleeve started moving, I could also tell looking inside the tips. Now I gotta fix that one side where the bolt broke off, I need to remove the tail somehow. I’ll also need to find a replacement bolt. From a video I found for supposedly 996/997 (though it was a 996 tip) it seems to be a M8x35 with part number N01-033-57: https://www.pelicanparts.com/More_In...Yo6VZipWn8c-wT