Yeah, I put these stack mufflers on a couple of my trucks and now my wife
will actually ride in the truck with me (carefully consider the
ramifications of this before you run out and put a muffler on your M35A2!).
And, I have been able to actually talk on a cell phone while going down the
road (if I persist at this behavior I am going ot have to put in the power
steering upgrade!)!
After I put a muffler on my '53 Studebaker M35A2 I was able to hear the
tranny noise that had previously been hidden. It is really loud, too. I
checked the output shaft on the back of the tranny and you can wiggle it
with your hand. Is there anyway to tighten this with out pulling the
tranny?
Joe Garrett
cell 425-344-1402
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From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
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Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 12:35 AM
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Subject: [MV] Noisy deuce, but not the exhaust. Gears, etc.
Joe in Snohomish, WA showed me a nifty muffler arrangement on his deuce
(well, one of a stable full of deuces. Dice??). It really, really
quieted the exhaust down. It is a muffler for an 18 wheeler, I guess.
It's NAPA. No backpressure. Straight through, but has side chambers. You
could drop a baseball right through it. I put one on and it does indeed,
quiet it down a whole bunch. Unfortunately, now I hear road noise and
gear noise. We can at least hold a conversation in the cab, however.
That's new....
When I back off the throttle, and releave the tension on the gears,
it gets way, way quieter in the cab. I still hear lots of road noise,
though. Next step is to put those lead filled rubber pads on the
floorboards. Ok, ok.... Call me a wuss, but I value my hearing.
The muffler installation was actually done by my friend Art, who is
also into MV stuff. He did a spectacular job of it. He cut the vertical
stack down low, a few inches above where it feeds through the fender.
Clamped the muffler on, and used that bracket up above that normally
holds onto the heat shield to run a huge muffler clamp around the
muffler. It's very solid. Painted the muffler up with high heat black,
first. He added a 90 degree bend above the muffler. I don't detect any
loss of power or mileage, after having done this mod. The turbo whistle
comes right through. If anyone wants pictures, I can take some and post
them somewhere.
Jim
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