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MG TD TF 1500 - Original Type TD/TF Exhaust Pipe

Before I reluctantly offer it on FeeBay, I have an original NOS type TD/TF exhaust (head) pipe that has the flanges on both ends. I prefer to offer it here to any of us regulars. I hope to get $40 for it and will ship it at actual shipping cost to the buyer.
Jim Merz

Pretty valuable but what to do about the muffler?
Christopher Couper

H Jim

Can you post a pic?

Chris
Chris Cullin

Chris Cullin, here is the composite photo of the pipe. It may fit either a TD or a TF as well but shipping to the land of Oz may cost an arm and a leg.
It has surface rust but has never been used/installed on a car.
Thanks for asking. I want to see it go to a useful end without putting more money in FeeBay/Paypal pockets.
Chris Couper, I never had a matching muffler. When I bought my car in '62, the DPO must have run over something that bent the bottom of the original pipe inward. I wound up replacing the whole exhaust system and never used the pipe I am offering. Maybe someone out there has a matching muffler that he never used.

Jim Merz

Looks like the TC pipe in the A/S catalog. Bud
Bud Krueger

Bud, is there a difference between the TC and TD pipes?
I never thought about the fact that I may have been sold an incorrect pipe about 40 years ago. If so, I thank you very much for pointing out the potential misrepresentation.
Jim Merz

Jim, I've had an odd 'exhaust gasket' in my goodie box for a number of years. I just looked at the exhaust systems in the A/S catalog. Sure enough, there's a flange on the muffler end of the TC front pipe. It also shows in Moss' catalog. Bud
Bud Krueger

I just replaced an original exhaust on a TD, and both ends were slip-joints. The TB and TC used a head pipe that bolted to the muffler.

Tom Lange
MGT Repair
t lange

Hi Jim,

I would like to buy your exhaust pipe if you still have it. I have 2 NOS flange type TD mufflers, but lack the pipe to go with them. Your pipe is shaped almost the same as a photo of a flanged TD exhaust pipe I have attached.

Thanks

AC Davis

Allyn, you have mail.
Jim Merz

The TC pipe had a flex joint before the muffler. It looked like a spring within the pipe. The factory pipe was brazed to the mufffler, and the muffler was brazed to the tail pipe. Perhaps factory replacement exhausts had a bolt together flange joint where the front pipe and the muffler meet.
D. Sander

Tom, I know for a fact that at least some of the TDs originally had the bolt on muffler at the head pipe joint. Mine did as did several cars belonging to local friends.
BTW, for anyone considering my offer, the pipe has been shipped.
Jim Merz

I doubt this was ever a TF configuration. My TF is pukka original and still has the original exhaust system on it. It has always been a single welded piece from the exhaust manifold, to the tip of the exhaust pipe at the back of the car. No flanges or slip joints.

However my TF system has really come to the end of its life, as I have rotated and patched for the last time.

I was fortunate enough on this forum, to have located a NOS silencer that I will have to weld into place, and hopefully, I'll restore that lovely TF sound from the 50s.

Gord Clark
Rockburn, Qué.
Gordon A Clark

This is the exhaust system from TF9052 welded together into one piece that Gordon mentions is on his original car. This still has the factory black paint on the silencer which is amazing.

Frank Cronin

This thread was discussed between 01/07/2014 and 04/07/2014

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