Repair of resonator flange

Bolt everything up like it goes. The pipe still slipped in the flange the gaskets are all whatever goes there's there and bolted up now drive over to ye Old exhaust shop in the hood and have to lift the mess up and tack around that flange for you simple enough get a guy $20 whatever that should do it they shouldn't take him and take him longer to lift the car up actually. If you're just going to have it like that for a couple of days don't do anything The pipe is still stuck up in there right like buy an inch or so so once your stuff is all up it should naturally stay together when everything is suspended properly a little tiny leak no one's going to care as long as you're not in California you're good to go until you're part comes and then you got nothing to do Lost slip apart don't forget to take the nut inside the flange and the bolt.

 

I was just saying if the pipe penetrated the flange far enough it would hold together while driving etc but and then you can weld it just tack it in two or three places and that car is fixed but I guess you need a resonator or something I get rid of the resonator I make my guy put a pipe from the back of the cat to the cat back pipe if you will That's how we did it on the '05 and I cut out the same resonator I do believe on the '09 they might be laying in the yard and then a pipe goes from the cat straight to the back muffler or you could eliminate that I just didn't get that far and really is pointless on the Prius other than the weight of the two items

 

Like I said the resonators at Big balloon looking thing down from the converter I make sure to get rid of those anytime I get any exhaust work done I just have my buddy take the sawzall and leave an inch and a half of that flange going down towards the resonator and cut that and then he swells the pipe slides over what he just cut and has it bent so that it's going to connect to where he cut the pipe heading back to the muffler done and if I wanted to carry it to the extreme I'd whacked the muffler out but then I have to re-wel the little guides back on to hold it into the rubbers just the raw pipe without the muffler there's no gaines to be had on a Prius doing all this just weight savings. The muffler is kind of heavy 28 lb or something I don't know I haven't actually had the muffler off the Prius to weigh it but they look pretty stout My Corolla won at 12 years old was like a brick or several bricks.

 

Do you purchase, repair and resell these cars?

 

Sry, I should have been more specific. Question was meant for @Tombukt2

 

I try not to I buy them if they fall into my lap inexpensively enough because I have kids wife and friends that all drive for whoever so I'm kind of stuck as the car guy and yes I do make changes I add battery tender cables and all kinds of stuff especially on my personal driving car now maybe on theirs not so much but on my car the one I drive daily my 09 I've got all kinds of crap in this thing and when I take most of it out you can't even see where it goes but such as life I make them for me to use as in me myself and I. The engineers at Toyota are great they just don't add battery tender cables and other things because they don't want you doing that they want you take it to the Toyota dealer That's the American way well that's somebody's American way not mine

 

And it looks like I'll be stuck in prii for a while No apterra . Looks like they're in big trouble

 

An exhaust shop or an exhaust installer is going to have an expander and a compressing tool that can open up that hole or close it down do it to any pipe in the range of his pipe bender's capability it's just how it works that looks like it's made for a 2-in sleeve to fit over it and then the other end of this leave would slide over the pipe that you're offering up and then you would wire feed well that together I'm like you I would have the pipe I just purchased expanded by the exhaust shop so that my pipe factory will slide into that No that isn't right. You need to have the pipe in your car squeezed open to slide over this or this is the resonator so that pipe coming out of the cat needs to be expanded to slide over the picture of your resinator and then the pipe on the other end of the resonator that does the cat back function or the resonator back function needs to be swelled to slip over the other end of this resonator

 

try borrowing a pipe expander from Oreillys or Autozone (on any Auto parts), or you might try using pipe adapters and clamps.

 

I imagine that resonator pipe will be awfully hard to expand with a hand expander you might do it using an impact gun maybe. The resonator is technically correct it already has swollen in edges it's made for your pipe in the car to slip into. This manufacturer has no way of knowing what the pipe looks like in your car because of other exhaust work possibly done

 

The band thing is cheap junk don't even fool with it I have one laying out here in the shop I can take a picture of it for you it's really silly some of the stainless guys have tried this stuff a few times and it's just silly looks retarded sorry for the word but oh well. Take it down to Midas let them expand the pieces they need to expand so they slip inside like they're supposed to in the direction of flow then you have the proper setup slip together no clamps needed if you don't want if they swell your pipe right the Midas guy if he's older guy he'll get it so that it slips together just so you slide that bad boy together in your car and you will not even need a clamp you can put one on there if you want to but that's just you. It'll work beautifully you won't even know what's happening then if you want to one day when you got nothing to do you can drive it by there because you want to and have him see him around those slip joints he made for you probably no reason to do it other than you're there and you think it should be done mine have been left left loose for hundreds of thousands of miles never saw black streak out of any of the joints in rusty Massachusetts no less

 

Yeah you can look at those steel banded clamps online they'll tell you the gauge and everything they're pretty stout it's just the way they work if anything pulls on the pipe or whatever it can slip out which generally is not going to be happening on a Prius so it'll be just great