S60R Drive shaft rub?
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04-17-2012, 03:33 PM
Okay, sorry for the information overload here...
That's the TNN to fix the issue known as "rain squeal". The dealer will install it but they will charge you. And if you damage your drive shaft due to the new hanger, hanging the exhaust lower or due to the exhaust bracket. It is not covered under any warranty and they will charge you in the neighborhood of $3,500-$4,000 to fix. It's been documented many times on Swedespeed.com
Now Rain squeal is what happens when the lower side of the center resonator is cooled rapidly by water or slush/snow and the upper side expands upwards and makes slight contact with the drive shaft making a loud squealing noise. Even if this has happened on your car there are no balancing issues. All you'll get is a score mark on the drive shaft where it was touched by the resonator. You can google "rain squeal" to read more about it. This is what it souds like...Volvo S60R Rain Squeal - YouTube
Your drive shaft will look like this...
And the resonator will look like this...
The new exhaust hanger will not create any issues other then lowering the exhaust closer to the ground as new hanger is designed to only slightly lower the exhaust so the resonator will no longer make contact with the drive shaft.
The new bracket...
The solution most of us have done is to simply remove the resonator and replace it with a straight pipe. It'll cost you about $40 or so dollars at an exhaust shop. It's cheaper then the hanger and gets rid of any further problems you may run into with the resonator being lower to the ground.
Now while you're looking under your car, remove the exhaust bracket. It's a metal sheet that hangs too low under the car and has caused thousands of $$$ in damages if it hits a speed bump or anything in the road by shoving the exhaust into the drive shaft and bending it. Google search "Exhaust bracket of death"
That's the TNN to fix the issue known as "rain squeal". The dealer will install it but they will charge you. And if you damage your drive shaft due to the new hanger, hanging the exhaust lower or due to the exhaust bracket. It is not covered under any warranty and they will charge you in the neighborhood of $3,500-$4,000 to fix. It's been documented many times on Swedespeed.com
Now Rain squeal is what happens when the lower side of the center resonator is cooled rapidly by water or slush/snow and the upper side expands upwards and makes slight contact with the drive shaft making a loud squealing noise. Even if this has happened on your car there are no balancing issues. All you'll get is a score mark on the drive shaft where it was touched by the resonator. You can google "rain squeal" to read more about it. This is what it souds like...Volvo S60R Rain Squeal - YouTube
Your drive shaft will look like this...
And the resonator will look like this...
The new exhaust hanger will not create any issues other then lowering the exhaust closer to the ground as new hanger is designed to only slightly lower the exhaust so the resonator will no longer make contact with the drive shaft.
The new bracket...
The solution most of us have done is to simply remove the resonator and replace it with a straight pipe. It'll cost you about $40 or so dollars at an exhaust shop. It's cheaper then the hanger and gets rid of any further problems you may run into with the resonator being lower to the ground.
Now while you're looking under your car, remove the exhaust bracket. It's a metal sheet that hangs too low under the car and has caused thousands of $$$ in damages if it hits a speed bump or anything in the road by shoving the exhaust into the drive shaft and bending it. Google search "Exhaust bracket of death"
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