Broken hangers and brackets rebuilt and reinforced so the system stops sagging and stops loading the joints it was never meant to hang from.
4.9 50 reviews from Cleveland customers
Rated with the BBBArc Wheels Welding LLC, since 2023
Black ownedIndependent shop on Cleveland's southeast side
A broken exhaust hanger is the cheapest thing on this site to fix and one of the most expensive to ignore. An exhaust is designed to hang from several points, each carrying a share. Lose one and the others carry more, the system droops, and the weight starts going through the joints instead of the hangers.
Joints are not designed to carry weight. So a five minute hanger repair, left for six months, turns into a cracked flange, a split flex pipe or a torn mid pipe, which is a considerably larger bill.
They are thin steel sitting in the direct spray path off the wheels, which is the worst place on a vehicle for salt.
They flex constantly, because the whole point of a hanger is to allow movement, and metal that flexes and corrodes at the same time fatigues faster than either alone.
The rubber isolators perish, which lets metal contact metal and accelerates everything.
Weld points on the pipe itself corrode, so the hanger is intact and the thing it was welded to is gone.
On any vehicle in Cleveland past about eight years old, expect the hangers to be the oldest surviving part of the exhaust.
Where the hanger has broken away from the pipe, the pipe gets cleaned back to sound metal and a new mount welded on, usually with more material than the original had.
Where the body side bracket has corroded, that gets rebuilt into sound structure rather than welded to a rusted panel, because the second option puts you back here next year.
Perished isolators get replaced at the same time, since a new mount on an old rubber is half a job.
The whole run gets checked. The one that broke is rarely the only one close to going, and doing them together is a fraction of doing them one at a time.
Welding a body side bracket onto a rusted panel. If the structure the hanger mounts to is gone, that gets repaired first or the repair lasts a season.
It is one of the cheaper jobs in the shop, which is exactly why it is worth doing before it turns into a cracked flange or a split flex pipe. Send a photo to 216.309.1567 for a number.
Yes, and that is the reason to fix it quickly. Once a hanger goes, the weight it was carrying goes through the joints, and joints are not designed to carry weight. Cracked flanges and split flex pipe come next.
Usually. Either a hanger has broken or an isolator has perished and the system is contacting the body. Both are quick fixes and both get worse.
Yes, and they should be done together. A new welded mount hanging on perished rubber is half a repair.
Most quotes come back the same day the shop is open. Free, no obligation, and if it cannot be repaired you will hear that straight.
