Exhaust banging against anti roll bar
 

My exhaust is banging against something in certain situations. I’ve attached a photo of the rear anti roll bar close to the exhaust where I think the issue is. The exhaust came on the car, and may just be a cheap badly fitting exhaust. What I wanted to ask was:
Has anybody had a similar issue, if so how did you resolve it?
It seems like a lump of rubber between the two would cure the problem, has anyone bodged anything this way before?
It’s an MGZTT CDTi by the way, MK1 2003


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Similar but not the anti-roll bar, and I think rubber would quickly melt.

My exhaust was knocking on the cross member due to tired rubber hangers. Solution was to undo the clamp to the rear silencer, new hangers, a block of 1" thick wood placed on top of the cross member and then re-tighten. It's now become my routine when helping local members change the rear silencer to always have a block of wood there before tightening the clamp.

Regards

:wot: Old rubbers can be the problem , but the alignment of the rear box to the middle pipe often causes knocking noises . Loosening , twisting and retightening does indeed lift the pipe and usually solves it :}
Never tried the block of wood but it sounds like a good idea !

Could I just check Mike, would the wooden piece be sandwiched between the cross member and the back box? Probably stating the obvious, but thought it worth a check…


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On the rearmost crossmember, with the central section of the exhaust above it. Hope it makes sense now?

Mike

I’ll take a look tomorrow, thanks for your help


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Hi Eddie.
Open the double clamp it the photo and re-adjust the back box section so it does not connect with the rear anti roll bar, that is your best solution.

Thanks everyone. A bit of twisting and turning sorted it.


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