hello everyone today I will be doing a demonstration on how to how to fix a exhaust rattle I know usually what causes this is usually heat shields around the exhaust pipes here or go down a little further he'll have yeah but the heat shields let's go around York athletic converter or resonators and mufflers now I normally with these heat shields for or just to dissipate the heat or to protect the the unit itself whatever it's on you now you can pull them off I you just like to keep them on if they're not in too bad a shape sometimes what usually happens is you'll have clamps like this I'll go around and what will happen will actually rust off and then this will cause to actually have loose shields around now as you can see here there's also a bolt holding that piece on so sometimes they both do rot off too and I'll go that goes to the same thing for the catholic converters i know they will have like a crimp connection just in the outside because actually two halves put together now on this this car here is actually a 2000 Subaru Outback and what's happened here is the clamps actually come off and you can see the you can see it's actually rattling right there after it warms up for a little while what happens then it just when it gets into depending on the RPM it'll just start rattling so what I'll do to be fixing this is actually adding a gear clamp itself another gear clamps they do come in different sizes these ones here I have are actually a 76 millimeter which are here's the other one here which is actually undone these are 76 millimeter so that's roughly about 3 inches now what you can do is I'll just do a demonstration after is you can actually put these together take them apart and put them together because sometimes at your local auto parts store they don't actually stock the the biggest size what I've been able to find sometimes a must you go to a specialty place I usually able to buy up to 4 inch and that isn't necessarily enough to go around a Catholic inverter so you actually need two of them put together which will make a diameter of 8 inches so just do a demonstration how they go together now for this specific fix here I'll just be using one clamp itself now what I've done here is actually separated the two from each of the clamp connections itself so you actually have one full gear clamp here and another one right there and then you just simply thread each one into each side here and there you go and I have a larger diameter gear clamp in case you're not able to buy one locally now how these just simply work is they're basically almost the same principle as I guess you'd call like a worm gear so they actually pull each of these teeth in further and tighten up now these are normally made of stainless steel so you don't actually have to worry about them rusting for quite some time now they will eventually but it'll take some time and they're very durable they won't break or nothin you can use actual just twist wire but the problem is with that is that will will break after a while or rust off now the tighten ease I have usually two options I usually have a screwdriver now this particular one just uses a standard flat screwdriver or a a bolt on the outside hex head this one here is I believe a 5/16 now for putting the the double gear clamp around York athletic inverter here now what you want to do is actually disconnect the one side of it make sure you just split them up in between here so they're not less and barely grabbing on the one side and there's more on the other side and I simply just want to make the one to the top because you won't be able to access it after and then just leave the open one on the bottom and then you'll just tighten it up once it's on me the Catholic converter muffler or just just the heat seal itself now once you've tightened up the gear clamp here now you'll notice that it's actually the heat shield is now nice and rigid so you won't have any more rattles after your vehicle warms up oh well it's idling or running and it'll get rid of that annoying noise now you can actually trim these off here but these are hardened stainless steel so it can be a little tricky to do these are you can't exactly side cutters on you have to use something a little a little more force on but I just normally just leave it up there you just tuck around and wrap around the opposite side so you don't actually have to worry about it catching on to anything now that's it for my video if you have any comments or questions please don't hesitate to post them and thank you for watching