Exhaust System clamps

[Guest thorn]

Gene Napoliello sent me this message and I want to pass in on to this group for an answer for Gene:

I researched Ford and Chevy ,55-57 chevy used the band style, 1960 Chevy chasis manual calls for a Yoke style clamp. Ford, at least thru 51, used band style clamps.

[Peter J.Heizmann]

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[Randy S]

In the late 60's Ford used both styles for different applications. For instance, the clamp type was used on the tail pipe extensions on the dual exhaust Mustangs in 65 & 66 and the saddle or yoke style was used on the main exhaust system.

It's pretty hard to nail things like this down as different applications can sometimes upset the apple cart. It seems nothing is "black or white" with Ford.

Randy

[mrpushbutton]

nothing is Black or White with most any car company. It's important to remember that automobile companies were not trying to make art-they were trying to make money. And sometimes that meant using different parts thru the model year of a certan model. If you are lucky, you belong to a club that has understood this, and taken it into consideration for judging. sometimes the standard was set by "old_________, who along with__________ started the club in 195_" his car was this way then it came out of the barn, and that's how they all should be. It may be easier with some brands, they may have been more uniform within the production year. I wonder how one would judge an AMC (All Makes Combined) car from the late 60's-early 80's? they bought and used everyone's leftovers. I saw a Model A at Hershey last year with a great bumper sticker--<span style="font-style: italic">"Henry didn't make no 100 point cars"</span>

[dougapd]

Is it really necessary to knock other brands of cars in your comments? If you actually knew anything about AMC products you'd know that they had vendors (parts suppliers) manufacture parts for them just like every other (i.e., the "big" three, etc.) auto manufacturer. Why is it that Ford can use transmissions made by GM (Hydra-Matics) and Lincoln can use Frigidaire AC compressors (this was in the early 70's) and Pontiac can use Ford 3-speed manual transmissions (in some late 60's models) but for some reason AMC is using "everbody's leftover parts" when they have Saginaw make steering gears for them or when they have Chrysler build transmissions for them or when they use Delco distributors. None of these parts will fit any GM or Chrysler products yet somehow they're "leftover parts". I don't think so. It'd be nice if you got your facts straight before you started knocking other manufacturers. AMC designed and built their own engines (except for the Packard V8's used in 55 & early 56 and the GM 4 cylinder used from 80-83) and rear axle assemblies and had their own wiring manufacturing and plastics manufacturing in addition to all the stamping plants, etc.

[novaman]

It's a common misconception that AMC uses "leftover" parts. If you think about it, it's understandable why it is. When you talk about Ford you think Motorcraft/Autolite. When you talkin about GM it's AC/Delco/hyrdamatic tranny. and so on. When you look at an AMC and see say, a Chrysler built tranny, Autolite starter, and Delco distributor, the person looking at it most likley isn't a parts person and can't tell that the starter won't bolt to any Ford block or that the Delco distrib won't fit any GM block. So they can only go by what they see.

Be willing to bet that Mr. Pushbutton didn't realize that those "leftover" parts wouldn't fit any ford or GM and just learned from this.