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We have a 2014 Yamaha gas Electronic Fuel Injected golf cart that is making an annoying rattling noise when accelerating. As far as I can tell, the rattling is coming from the cylindrical shaped heat shield located under the drivers side of the seat, which covers the carts muffler. The heat shield is made up of two pieces, which are spot welded together. A couple of the spot welds have failed. The rattling only happens when accelerating, and then stops when the cart reaches full speed or is decelerating. The rattling seems to have gotten much louder recently (another spot weld probably popped loose) and is really starting to bug me. If only I could get the cart into my garage up north, I could fire up the Hobart welder and try to fix it myself. Unfortunately, I don’t have the resources at our Villages home to fix it. I thought of trying to wrap a hose clamp around the heat shield and snug it together as a MacGyver type solution, but I can’t find a wide enough diameter hose clamp.

Has anyone else experienced this problem, and if so, did you find a solution? Any helpful advice would be greatly appreciated.