Well, you can hear it moving when you rock the unattached muffler. that's all the proof we have until we cut one up, but the key is we've never had the moving piece lock up on us. How's that?
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Well, you can hear it moving when you rock the unattached muffler. that's all the proof we have until we cut one up, but the key is we've never had the moving piece lock up on us. How's that?
Super VXer
"Noise" in an old, rusty "take-off" muffler isn't proof of anything related to my comment that the valve could seize after sitting for a time....on a salvage unit that is. I would be surprised if old mufflers didn't make noise when shaken. Plus, in your case, I assume they hadn't sat for months.
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i cut mine up for s & g - i have pics in my gallery - that valve does not seem like something that would easily stickOriginally Posted by blacksambo
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One would hope their design accounted for rust potential. I hope for most owners, that this valve doesn't add another think to replace/worry about.
Typically, your $125 muffler shop muffler would not be a quiet as a stock muffler....largely because they don't include the [higher-cost] internal packing. (My shop said they could never get it as quiet as stock with their off-the-shelf lifetime mufflers. Actually, that packing also tends to accumulate moisture...raising the odds of rust-out.)
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[QUOTE=89Vette;273019]One would hope their design accounted for rust potential. I hope for most owners, that this valve doesn't add another think to replace/worry about.
Like I said, even on older take offs no problems with valves freezing, ever!
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Nice pics and lots of them, but without some verbage with each pic, this newb doesn't see the valve thats being referred to.
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