How To Replace Exhaust Tailpipe 1996-99 Subaru Legacy

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In this video, I'm going to replace the tailpipe and muffler on the Subaru Legacy Wagon. Tools you'll need are jack and jack stand, some penetrating oil and a wrench and socket and ratchet, it was 9/16"� on this vehicle although I'm pretty sure the bolt was replaced so that size may not be the same for your vehicle. I also used a razor blade and scraper tool but you may not need that on yours.

Okay, just go up underneath and you can see where our problem is, right here. There's a bracket, it's rotted on and it's broken so that's causing a pretty good sized hole. This is pretty easy. You need to jack your car up some. You're going to put some penetrating oil here on these two bolts and then there's just a series of hangers, one here where that bracket is broken and then two back here. Okay, when lifting up your Subaru, you can do it from here which is right under the control arms, also right under here where those notches are. You can lift it and if you want to jack it in the middle, you can jack it right from here temporarily and put the jack stands on the side. Also, here or here you can lift it up.

Okay, first thing I'm going to do is come under here with penetrating, spray those up really good. Okay, on this car, these are 9/16"�, I can't say that's probably the case, the bolts may have been changed before. Set the wrench on there. First I'm going to close out the other wrench and that should come apart pretty easily. We'll fast forward here as I remove those bolts. These came apart pretty easy on this car. I believe this is how they're all done with two bolts which is the best thing. Hopefully they all come apart easily if you break the bolts off, that's simple enough, you just get bolts to replace the one you break.

Put your screwdriver right between there, take it apart. What I'm going to do now is lift this back and put one of the bolts just to kind of hold it in place. Over here, push it there and off, pull it down. Push this hangar off. Hold the assembly to pull that bolt out. Right here the old hangar is broken, pull that out. At some point, this car is apart and they used some kind of gas cement on the end. I'm just going to use a razor blade scraper and scrape that off. Okay, here's the old pipe and a new muffler pipe from 1A Auto. You see it has a nice chrome exhaust tip. I just kept the bubble wrap on there for now during installation.

Before installation, put a little bit of penetrating oil or oil or whatever just to make it easy. Also spray it up on the hangar. Put the assembly up in. Concentrate on the front hangar first. Pop it on there, now the back. Take the bolt through. So it kind of a hangs the gasket on there like that. Put that bolt through. Push that up in and hold it there first. Put that up in. Okay, at this point, I got both bolts in there with the nut started and now I'm just using my ratchet and wrench. I tightened up one side till it's almost seated. I get it just tight enough so it's just holding the gasket in place but I can still move the gasket around then make sure you center the gasket, make sure it's not dropped down too far, too high and then tighten up that other bolt on the other side and then tighten them both up and you don't have to have them incredibly tight. You want to have them probably about 25 to 30 foot-pounds, enough to really hold but you don't want to break them.

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