Roy,

Does Canadian Tire have a website?  If not can you provide more info as to
the muffler you bought?

TIA
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At 07:59 AM 7/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>A few years ago I was in the position of needing to replace my Westy's
>corroded
>gold plated ($$), diamond encrusted ($$) stock VW muffler with a new gold
>plated
>($$), diamond encrusted ($$) VW muffler or another brand. I chose to go with a
>Canadian Tire muffler. Six years later, the muffler is still going strong
>with a
>lifetime guarantee to boot.
>
>Unfortunately, there's no after market replacement for the hangers, which are
>ultra expensive. :(
>
>Roy Olynick
>'87 VW Westfalia GL
>(till death do us part)
>'91 Honda Civic SE
>'01 Honda Civic LX
>www.autobahn.mb.ca/~rrh/Westy_Home.htm
>
>| I wonder if any of you have experience using a generic muffler in place
>of the
>stock.
>|
>| I'd think that the inlet and outlet sizes need to be the same as stock, and
>the body of the muffler should be about the same shape/dimension as the stock.
>|
>| Suppose the above parameters were met in a generic muffler - could it be
>used?
>|

Dylan Spurgin
'81 Westy - Elly the Electric Elephant
http://spurgin.net/westy1.htm