RE: Silence of the muffler

From: Wes Weems (wweems@fix.net)
Date: Sun Jul 21 2002 - 04:19:09 EDT


Shoot... When I got my mufflers put on, I specifically wanted it to
resonate in the cab... Magnaflows... Well its initially pretty quiet...
Once it gets nice and warm, set off alarms a good deal away.... Not
cause its loud... But because airflow or something.

wEs

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net] On Behalf Of
jon@dakota-truck.net
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 9:53 PM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Subject: Re: DML: Silence of the muffler

"Mallett, Donald B" <Donald.Mallett@bnsf.com> wrote:

: About a week ago there was a thread about mufflers sounds produced and
: reverberations sound in the cab was touched on a little. I posted that
the
: rear mounts on my dual, out the sides behind the rear wheels were only
solid
: metal with thin washers bolted to the frame. I asked if this type of
: mounting would pass a lot of noise into the cab. Also I asked if
changing
: these solid mount to the clamp on style with rubber isolator would
help.
: Well for about $3.50 with tax and 1.5 hours labor, the new mounts went
in.
: With these mounted the noise in the cab was cut by about 75%. When the
: engine was pulling at 1800 to about 1300 RPM I use to get this
reverberation
: that would almost drown out normal conversation. That is about 90%
gone
: now!!!!

  Good to know! Thanks, Don!

-- 

-Jon-

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