DeTomaso Mailing List: October 97, Message #129
     



From: 	JDeRyke@aol.com

Subject: Re:  Rattling baffle

Date: 	Sun, 5 Oct 1997 23:45:05 +0000



This bugged me for oh, maybe 10 years on my car. Finally, I took the muffler

off, cut a seam about 5"" long near the back and bent it up. The "baffle" is

a flat washer maybe 2" in dia. that was welded to the end of the screen

outlet to the tailpipe and seems to serve as the last sound deadener before

the gasses exit. There is a washer on each tailpipe. Corrosion, time &

vibration broke the weld. I dumped it out, rammed a pipe down the other

screen to break that one and rewelded the seam. Total time: 1 hr. There is no

other way that I know of to stop the rattle. By the way, the so-called GTS

exhaust doen't have these washer-baffles, and produces a slight increase in

noise when they're gone, but nothing radical. J DeRyke