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• The WORST Looking Muffler Repair!
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:15:15 -0800
  ...http://picasaweb.google.com/musomuso/MufflerRepair#5539991788913283618 A tip; if you tear your muffler a new one, Hi Temp RTV seems to vanish into...
• Re: Alternative mufflers in place of OEM etc..
  Historical mailing list - Timothy Crooks
  Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:28:09 -0400
  I got the muffler straps from Bow-Wow in Surrey, BC and the carrier that mount beneath the muffler from Ken Wilfey's Van...
• Re: Homemade muffler
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 4 Feb 2013 21:46:59 -0800
  ...alistair On 2013-02-04, at 8:27 PM, Roger Whittaker wrote: > Dear muffler DIY > > Well done and very high on the local cool...
• '85 Vanagon muffler needed.
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 06 Feb 1996 09:54:55 -0500 (EST)
  My friend needs a new muffler and was quoted $140 plus $25 labor by a non-VW (e.g., generic)but reputable garage. Sound...
• Exhaust system bolts ??
  Historical mailing list - Ken Hartz
  Thu, 17 May 2001 23:38:40 EDT
  Are special bolts required when installing new muffler on 89 Vanagon (2.1)? I'm installing a new muffler and pass through pipe from...
• exhaust hardware sizes needed
  Historical mailing list - insyncro
  Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:17:42 -0500
  ...CAT to Muffler: Muffler to Tailpipe: Thanks in advance! df
• Re: Replacement Muffller selections
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:40:54 -0800
  Which person is that Nathaniel? The a**hole in the Rockies who is talking about S & S Headers (NOT stainless steel mufflers) or the...
• On I4 and TIICO Exhaust Fixes
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Mon, 30 Sep 2002 02:13:39 EDT
  ...If you insist on going tight and short, use long mufflers with significant internal pathlength and use two or a resonator and a muffler...
• muffler repair story
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 24 Sep 1994 15:31:59 +0100
  ...So, I called Midas. > > Muffler = $185 > Cat.= $160 > Install= $ 12 > > Plus any pipes. > > The main reason I'd do Midas is because of the...
• Re: Replacing Muffler
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Mon, 12 Jan 2004 07:06:53 -0500
  Bingo! Jeff Palmer wrote: >Bosal is what the local VW dealership used to replace my 'lifetime warranty' >muffler with. Boy I wasn't very...
• Re: Removing the muffler
  Historical mailing list - Fredrich Hesterberg
  Sun, 27 Jul 2003 01:10:14 -0500
  ...Doug, I learned it is much better and easier to take the converter off with the muffler. It will cost you for another gasket...
• Tailpipe repair
  Historical mailing list - Royston, Jerry
  Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:53:59 -0400
  ...It basically rusted off and now there's just a little nub of rusted metal sticking out of the muffler. Two questions: 1) Is...
• Re: Muffler Source?
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:38:46 EDT
  ...The all Stainless Steel mufflers for both 1.9 and 2.1 application I have manufactured and sell are only $379.95. That's...
• Re: Cdn Tire Mufflers
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:19:50 EST
  >>I need a muffler for my 84 Westy. I'd priced them with the list vendors but shipping and exchange rate were getting out...
• S&S Headers - fitmet problems
  Historical mailing list - T.J. Sheffield
  Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:34:13 PDT
  ...Save one of your original muffler supports and use it to cradle the new muffler pipe that connects the new muffler to the cat...
• Re: rad hose vs. muffler pipe ?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Catlin
  Sat, 28 Sep 1996 07:38:08 -0700 (PDT)
  ...NA) Anyone see any > corrosion/other probs using galvalume muffler pipe in stead of OEM or > rubber? Reply ASAP, this will be a done...
• late night comment and then to bed
  Historical mailing list - jim
  Wed, 18 Sep 2002 00:28:53 -0400
  ...I just finished installing a new muffler. (Thank you Ron) What should have been the easiest muffler replacement ever, was the hardest. Next time...
• Re: new muffler question: BusDepot offerings
  Historical mailing list - Geo & Kathleen Hahn
  Fri, 4 Aug 2006 10:41:20 -0700
  ...wrote: > need to replace the muffler/tailpipe/strap on my '84 1.9l-- rust finally > overwhelmed them. I got a Midas muffler about 16...
• re: Muffler & pipe patches
  Historical mailing list
  25 Jul 96 07:53:00 EDT
  ...Get some new pipes and a new muffler and save yourself a lot of trouble. ted 84GL
• Stebro muffler
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Fri, 2 Apr 1999 18:29:40 PST
  Has anyone other than Frank Condelli purchased the stainless steel muffler offered by Stebro? It seemed to me that Frank was getting the first...
• Re: Where did you get yours stainless steel muffler !
  Historical mailing list - Hans Vanhethoen
  Fri, 5 Dec 2003 17:03:51 -0500
  ...I just cut off old flange and rewelded it to new muffler.There are a lot of types but it all depends on what...
• Re: Muffler options aside from stock <-- that was supposed to read muffler :)
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Fri, 7 Nov 2008 18:14:34 -0800
  The only thing out there that EXACTLY fits will be the quiet pack muffler produced by S&S Headers in Arizona, their Number V285...
• Re: diesel muffler rubber mounts
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Fri, 7 Feb 2003 10:29:21 -0500
  We have these diesel muffler mounts for $7. They are the same Bosal, etc. Just FYI. Thanks, Ken Wilford John 3:16 http://www...
• Re: Replacement Muffller selections
  Historical mailing list - Austin
  Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:45:55 -0800
  (Sadly) they WANT you to return for warranty replacement - often!!! It's where they really make their money, because while the muffler is under...
• Anyone using a Walker "Quiet-Flow" Muffler?
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Wed, 2 Apr 2008 11:33:56 -0700
  ...http://www.walkerexhaust.com/products/mufflers_quietflow.asp Anyone using one? If so, is it quiet enough for campground use? Thanks! Neil. -- Neil Nicholson...
• Re: [Syncro] Mufflers & Breathing
  Historical mailing list - Steve Schwenk
  Thu, 20 Dec 2001 08:43:46 -0800
  ...But a muffler is easy and if it will definitely add to and fit in with what i am doing, then it makes sense...
• Re: Late beetle muffler
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:52:19 -0900
  ...It's a German muffler, and I'd like to use it, as it's new >and I need one, but what's the...
• 87 running poorly
  Historical mailing list - Pat Callaghan
  Tue, 6 May 2003 15:47:29 -0700
  Well, I finally pulled the cat & muffler today. The cat seems fine. Can see light pass through the honeycomb & there are no rattles. From...
• Re: Replacing Muffler
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sun, 11 Jan 2004 21:20:56 -0600
  The Autozone website says that Vanagon mufflers are "not yet available". Are they in the stores? Larry A. EMZ wrote: > Buy orignal. Autozone $99...
• Re: what do you need with a TIICO conversion
  Historical mailing list - Karl M.
  Mon, 4 Jun 2001 22:37:33 -0400
  ...You could use the 1.9 or the 2.1 muffler. > 3) what the difference in a muffler and tailpipe? AFAIK no difference other...
• Disappointing sound from new muffler
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Sun, 11 Jul 1999 19:39:29 EDT
  Greetings and salutations; The new after market muffler and cat have been installed about three weeks now. I am quite disappointed that it does...
• Re: rear exh pipe to engine carrier bracket
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 31 May 2013 12:50:56 -0400
  ...Instead of a V notch and two holes that line up with the holes for the muffler bracket, the 4wd bracket does not have...
• Re: Deal Day/best buy list recommendation
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Fri, 14 Mar 2003 00:14:14 -0500
  ...This muffler is > > a true factory replacement. It came in and "borla" was > > welded right on the thing. This muffler had a lifetime > > Warranty...
• To "The Clanger" Van somewhere in Oregon---A Possible Cure!
  Historical mailing list - Michael S. Nichols
  Sun, 20 Aug 2000 08:34:40 -0400
  ...I could never see this metal section from below as the muffler obscured it. I finally noticed it through the louvers behind the rear...
• Re: Holey muffler, Batman!
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Fri, 5 Jan 2007 01:42:14 -0500
  ...I do remember going to my local pep-boys and seeing some sort of muffler putty, that you applied to the hole and then...
• Re: Monza (sp?) muffler
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 14 Feb 1995 17:36:41 -0500
  ...It is rather expensive, but you will end up with a muffler that will not rust, and very resistant to heat (to 2000 F...
• Re: � � � New muffler and stu ff...
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Fri, 6 Sep 2002 17:21:46 EDT
  In a message dated 9/6/02 5:17:18 PM, sschwartz@OS2BBS.COM writes: > I expect I will need a new muffler soon...
• Re: Mufflers re-dux (pipe strangeness)
  Historical mailing list - T Collins
  Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:22:28 -0500
  ...tail pipe to have rusted, but not for the welded flange at the muffler tail pipe end to have gone bye-bye. Thanks, Tony
• Stainless Muffler News
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Sat, 3 Oct 1998 05:48:45 -0400
  I have updated my Website with the pics of the STEBRO stainless muffler. Check it out at: http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/westy.html...
• need muffler brackets for 2.1 wbx
  Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
  Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:43:12 -0500
  ...I need both muffler brackets for a 2.1 waterboxer. (Straps, too, but those are usually shot!) Mine are too rusty to bother fixing...
• Replacing Muffler
  Historical mailing list - tabe johnson
  Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:25:27 -0500
  Hi All, My muffler is on the way out, as is the pipe just in front of the catalytic converter. Are the stock replacements...
• Re: tailpipes of busdepot
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Wed, 5 Mar 2003 23:46:44 -0500
  ...This would not allow the other end of the > > muffler to work towards the engine, both sides of the > > muffler are off center. I...
• Catalytic converter and muffler, how do they join?
  Historical mailing list - David M
  Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:29:48 -0700
  ...What do I do now? Do I need a new muffler too? I'm not sure how this is all supposed to go together...
• Re: Driving report - STEBRO Stainless muffler
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 21 Apr 2000 07:33:28 EDT
  In a message dated 4/20/00 6:03:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes: << Driving report - STEBRO Stainless muffler...
• Re: Loud Exhaust
  Historical mailing list - Matthew
  Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:40:31 -0800
  just pull one of the exhaust gaskets- like the one between the cat and muffler. That will do it for you. Adam B wrote...
• Re: Loud Exhaust
  Historical mailing list - Birkenfeld Jeff
  Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:40:29 -0600
  ...Hey, Is there any kind of performance (well, I guess a Vanagon cant be performance), but any kind of loud mufflers made for a...
• New muffler and stuff...
  Historical mailing list - Stu Schwartz
  Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:22:52 -0400
  >I expect I will need a new muffler soon. Assuming they do good work, why >shouldn't I use a place like Midas. There...
• Re: Stebro Muffler installed
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Thu, 5 Oct 2000 06:39:13 EDT
  Rick, I have updated the <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/reviews.htm">STEBRO/Vanagon Stainless Steel Muffler Reviews & Comments</A> webpage to...
• Re: Diesel muffler bracket wanted!
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sat, 8 Mar 2003 07:43:26 -0800
  ...I find myself in need of the metal bracket > that supports the muffler from the oil pan. This is the passenger side > muffler mount...
• STEBRO/Vanagon SS Muffler News
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:03:04 EST
  The five introductory discounted STEBRO/Vanagon mufflers have been claimed. They have gone to: Gary Buettner, Cecil Yandell, Richard Koller, Mark McCulley and Dave...
• Re: Beefed up Waterboxer
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Mon, 22 May 2000 16:09:37 EDT
  ...I only had to bend the muffler brackets for the slightly larger muffler to fit and make a new longer strap for the muffler...
• Exhaust parts suppliers for '84 gas fueled
  Historical mailing list - R. E. Haufler
  Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:40:10 -0400
  ...I believe that he needs a catalytic convertor, muffler, tailpipe, gaskets, muffler hanger strap, etc. He had ordered a complete set from Advance, but...
• Re: Broken Stebro Muffler Bracket / Malcolm's trip
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Mon, 8 Aug 2005 21:14:01 EDT
  In a message dated 8/8/05 7:07:32 PM, mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM writes: << BUT IMHO paying SO MUCH for a muffler that...
• Re: WTB: Air-cooled Muffler, but a weird one...
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:00:52 EDT
  ...This past weekend, the muffler rotted out on my air- > cooled Vanagon (and caused other damage, but that is for another > post). The problem...
• Exhaust don't fit.
  Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Poole
  Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:32:45 -0800
  Just bought myself a muffler/exhaust from BOWOW, and it doesn't fit. It lines up with the heater boxes fine, but trying to...
• Re: How dose water get in the muffler?
  Historical mailing list - John Langowski
  Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:42:40 -0600
  ...John 84 Westy > Can someone tell me how water comes from the muffler in the morning when I > start up the engine? > Farfanugon > _________________________________________________________________ > Get...
• Re: Music to my ears.
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:51:13 EDT
  I have the connector pipe for the diesel for $50 and the muffler for $125. I also have muffler mounts for this van available...
• Re: Muffler and Headers Report--OUTSTANDING
  Historical mailing list - Scott McDonell
  Wed, 3 Sep 1997 17:57:29 -0700
  David Bartolini wrote: > I recently purchased a Turbo Muffler from S & S (602-847-9000). > > S&S manufacturers a top quality Turbo Muffler and...
• Re: rear exh pipe to engine carrier bracket
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 31 May 2013 10:49:09 -0700
  ...I made my own muffler brackets a while back. I can drill them to get the pip bracket to fit. cheers alistair On 2013...
• Fw: Muffler and Headers Report--OUTSTANDING
  Historical mailing list - Kevin McCaig
  Thu, 4 Sep 1997 10:15:58 -0300
  ...September 4, 1997 1:03 AM > > Scott McDonell wrote: > > > > David Bartolini wrote: > > > > > I recently purchased a Turbo Muffler from S & S (602-847-9000...