Patent ID: 7240767

Claim:
A mounting construction for mounting a tail pipe on a rear-end open portion of an exhaust pipe, the tail pipe having a diameter larger than a diameter of said rear-end open portion of the exhaust pipe, the mounting construction comprising: clamping means for clamping a periphery of said rear-end open portion of said exhaust pipe, the clamping means being provided at a front-end open portion of said tail pipe, said clamping means including a clamping member, separate from said tail pipe, accommodated inside said front-end open portion and sandwiching a periphery of said rear-end open portion of said exhaust pipe; wherein said clamping means has a pair of plate parts disposed at right and left positions of said front-end open portion and a connection member for connecting said plate parts to each other by reducing an interval between said opposed plate parts enough to sandwich a periphery of said rear-end open portion between a pair of said plate parts; wherein both ends of one of said plate pair part is fixed to an inner peripheral wall of said front-end open portion, and one end of the other of said plate pair part is fixed to said inner peripheral wall of said front-end open portion, and the other end formed as a free end of said other plate part is connected to said one plate part with a connection member; and wherein said connection member has a nut and a bolt screwed into said nut; and said bolt is inserted into said tail pipe from an open portion formed on a peripheral surface of said tail pipe in penetration therethrough.