2022 4Runner Exhaust Rattle

Speaking of soft office hands, when I had a rattle (ironically heard in a drive through), I kinda hurt my hand banging on the two skid plates…. But it was not in vain!!! There were a couple of pebbles in there that were making a racket at idle in drive.

I removed the skidplate, and out came bouncing out the little pebbles.

edit: to be clear, I reinstalled the skidplate afterwards (using properly gloved hands of course).

 

UPDATE: just drove with the master tech he went under there and we replicated the problem. He thinks he has pin pointed it to the flange (which is what I said) he said both bolts are not adjusted into the hole properly and is making contact with the exhaust pipe. If this does not fix it he is replacing the entire exhaust.
He’s working on it now so should have an update soon.

 

You’re having this issue as well?

 

my neighbor is a 96 year old farmer. he'll pound on solid steel beams with his bare hands. its insane to watch. i saw him slowly hand pound a 1" steel pin into his tractor one time.

 

UPDATE: it appears that it is fixed. Hopefully won’t run into that issue again.

 

So what did the tech do?
Did he realign the flange by pounding it with his manly bare hands or was he a pussy and use tools?

 

I had the same issue. I replaced the gasket and it fixed it.

 

Turns out the spring loaded bolts were barely touching the exhaust flange causing a rattle. Technician loosened them and repositioned them and the sound has disappeared.