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I have had to use a grinder on the bolts but have now got them off.
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I have brought my dream 911.....It has a switchable sports exhaust on it.
And it rattles, so i removed the bumper and found the rattle to be the valve that control the butterfly within the switchable valve.
I have decided to remove the backbox to get this looked at.
I have had to use a grinder on the bolts but have now got them off.
However i cannot get the backbox off due to the 2 long bolts that are inthe main support bracket housing.
They need to be pushed up and out and i cannot push them up due to the bolts hitting the car body. :nooo:
How do you remove the backbox?
You can see the bracket on this picture. These are 2 bolts i cannot remove. And hence the back box wont come off the car.
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I would imagine you must drop the engine slightly but I dont know for sure, what I would like to know though is what the rattle sounded like. I have a 996 with sports exhaust and I have this sort of rattle type squeak and I think its my exhaust, it sounds like a dry bearing but I know its not, and the noise disappears once the engine is hot, its like a dry brake disc when you initially start off, mnay thanks Mike
I made this mistake once too!
Spent about 7 hours on my back with a dremel trying to remove them! :frustrated:
You dont need to remove those bolts holding the brackets, you just need to remove the 3 bolts on the side of the brackets themselves and then the boxes will just slide down (assuming you remove the brackets that connect the mufflers to the cats as well
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those 2 bolts you are referring too just hold the boxes/mufflers to the brackets which you dont need to remove in order to get the back boxes off.
Hope this makes sense
Exactly as flyingbanana says. I too spent an age trying to get them out only to discover they have no function other than to hold the exhaust to the mounting bracket.
