Magnaflow Exhuast Installation - 2006 Ford F150

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2004 - 2009 Ford F-150 SuperCab Short Bed with V8 4.6L
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Installation of a Magnaflow Exhuast on a 2006 Ford F150

Today we are going to install part number 16612 from Magnaflow performance exhaust. This is a catalytic converter on back of the exhaust system placement for the stock exhaust. Our first step is to go ahead and look over into the original exhaust system. Make sure you can get the bolts loosened to make the connections up front. Then you will want to get yourself an idea on how to take off the exhaust. What you want to do is see how the rods go into the hangers here. It looks like the all point ends on all of them are towards the front. So we want to take them off and shove them towards the axle. And since the rest of this pipe is going out back, it might be a good idea to cut this in half. So you can take this pipe off first and push it backwards. Then have room to pull the exhaust muffler here backwards off the extension pipe coming off of the catalytic converter. That way we can take pieces off a lot easier then with just wrestling with one hole piece. It is a good idea to go ahead and spray down anything rusted so that we can get it apart a little easier.

We will let it set there for a few minutes and then we will go ahead and break it loose. All you have to do is basically loosen this clamp up and then take a screw driver or something and kind of pull it apart a little bit to give it some extra wiggle room to pull out the old exhaust. Next we are going to go ahead and make the cut right here so we can separate the 2 halves. Next we can go ahead and remove this tail pipe here. It would be a good idea to spray down the hanger here to help ease pulling it out. We will do the same thing for the muffler here. Spray down the hangers. And then, we will have to wrestle it off, going towards the axle. You might have to use some prying against the frame or a body component to get some pressure going that way because it is a tight fit. Next what we will do is go ahead and unbolt the rubber isolators from the frame to give us a little more wiggle room to get the exhaust off. Next we can go ahead and install the original hangers back into place. Alright, now we can start installing the new exhaust.

You start on the original pipe and run the first section into the exhaust hanger and just leave it loose for now and we will piece everything together. We will slide on the next portion and again we are leaving everything loose. We are just piecing it together for now. Sometimes you run yourself into a situation where it might be easier to take off the hanger off the vehicle, put it on the exhaust, and then reattach it by that by re bolting it to the frame. Now go ahead and install the fourth piece. Once you have all the pieces in place, now you want to take some time out to move them around to make sure we are going in as much of a straight line as possible and away from moving parts or anything you do not want to get hot. Basically you want to keep minimum of a 1 inch distance from anything around it.

Once you settle on the orientation of all the parts you want, go ahead and clamp everything down. We will start working on our clamps going from the the forward to the back of the vehicle. Once you get everything tightened down you might want to take a second look to make sure nothing has moved on you while you were tightening it down. Again make sure everything has stayed as far away as possible from moving objects and keep it as far as possible from the spare tire. Next thing to do is go ahead and start the engine and enjoy the new noise. There you have it for the install of part number 16612 from Maganaflow performance exhaust.