Dismantling
1. Disconnect "negative" battery terminal.
2. Remove the middle section of the exhaust system with silencer.
MANIFOLDS AND EXHAUST SYSTEM: MOD. K, move. V6, REPAIRS, Middle exhaust section: North American market countries.
3. Turn away 3 bolts of fastening of the heat-shielding screen and remove the screen from a receiving pipe.
4. Turn away 2 bolts of fastening of a coupling collar of pipes and remove the lower half of a collar.
5. Turn away 2 nuts of fastening of a reception pipe to a collector.
6. Turn away a bolt of fastening of a reception pipe to an arm and remove a reception pipe. Dispose of the gasket.
Installation
1. Wipe the exhaust pipe flange and exhaust manifold mating surfaces.
2. Install downpipe with new gasket, fit nuts but tighten.
3. Screw in a bolt of fastening of a reception pipe to an arm, but do not tighten it.
4. Install the lower half of the tie-down strap, screw in the bolts, but do not tighten them.
5. Install the middle section of the exhaust system with silencer.
MANIFOLDS AND EXHAUST SYSTEM: MOD. K, move. V6, REPAIRS, Middle exhaust section: North American market countries.
6. Tighten the nuts securing the downpipe to the manifold. Tightening torque 50 Nm.
7. Tighten the clamp bolts. Tightening torque 10 Nm.
8. Tighten the nuts securing the downpipe to the bracket. Tightening torque 25 Nm.
9. Attach "negative" battery terminal.
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