Have You Still Got Yours?

[cleverdick]

OK, I'm talking about the heat shield covers above the rear exhaust silencers. One of mine has corroded through at the mountings and thus has fallen down and is now resting on the silencer itself.

Assuming I could get the nuts undone, it would be a simple matter to reinforce the mounting area with a large washer. Except, the nuts look pretty rusty and I don't fancy my chances of getting them undone - at least without shearing the studs.

I'm wondering whether these plates are really necessary? The simplest solution would be to dispense with them altogether.

(Gen1 LS400)

Thoughts, please....

[steve2006]

I had the same problem with the offside, sprayed the nuts with wd40 and off they came, used the large washer fix and bolted it back up.

Never moved since.

[ROYT]

Same for me, big washers

[PEPE]

Same for me, big washers.

Same again here. Large washers did the trick.

[cleverdick]

OK guys...

Just spent most of the day (until it got dark) struggling to get these b**t**d nuts undone. The rearmost ones, copious amounts of Plusgas later, came off reasonably easily - where it's possible to get a socket and extension bar square on.

But the ones above the boxes? No chance! I eventually shifted one of them with the aid of some molegrips (and this took about two hours). The problem here is that there isn't room for a socket (without taking the exhaust off), and the spanners I had succeeded in doing nothing other than rounding off the nuts.

Easier said than done, my friends!

The plates are now held up to a certain extent, but I'm tempted to just get rid of them. (No, make that the whole car!)

What should have been a simple job, to fix a trivial issue, has taken a disproportionate amount of time - all because of a bit of stupid design.