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OT pickup muffler question

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DJL

01-25-2007 19:18:17




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A little off the wall, but here"s a question for you guys. I ran across an old beater pickup at a price I couldn"t resist for an old wood hauler/hunting truck. It"s a 1993 Ford F150 regular cab 4WD. Owned by a agribusiness and has been beat pretty hard, but I don"t have much to lose. Anyway the old muffler is about shot. Every once in awhile I"ll hear an old truck that has that distinct cackling sound upon start up and acceleration. How do I get that sound? I"ve heard that you want to use a small diameter tailpipe and put the muffler as far forward as possible? Also what type of cheap muffler should I go with, just an old style glass pack?

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Frank in Florida

01-26-2007 18:36:27




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 Re: OT pickup muffler question in reply to DJL, 01-25-2007 19:18:17  
Just cut off the existing muffler.Sawzall works good.
Try it with out the muffler. Will be loud. If this is too loud go any auto parts store and ask for generic turbo type muffler. Pick out one with the proper size inlet to match your exhaust. also get enough straight exhaust pipe and elbow to bring the exhaust out just in front of the rear tire. Sorta copy of a F150 Lighting.
Frank



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G/MAN

01-26-2007 07:45:18




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 Re: OT pickup muffler question in reply to DJL, 01-25-2007 19:18:17  
True dual exhaust with straight pipes and cheap glass-packs - will sound good but not get excessively loud, and you don't have to worry about a ticket for having no mufflers. I don't think it has anything to do with fuel-injection. Plenty of fuel-injected trucks here in town have cackling exhaust.



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Tim Shultz

01-26-2007 05:52:53




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 Re: OT pickup muffler question in reply to DJL, 01-25-2007 19:18:17  
what I did was just run down to the hardwear store and get two peaces of flex-pipe and two IH tractor mufflers, a roll of wire and some hose clamps and I was done.. for under $60! sounds great too... but I found out pretty quick that you have to watch it around cops.. Tim Shutz



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Nebraska Cowman

01-26-2007 03:59:40




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 Re: OT pickup muffler question in reply to DJL, 01-25-2007 19:18:17  
I have an 04 Dodge with the 5.7 Hemi, 2 inch dual off the pacs and it has plenty of cackle. Ask SproutW or anyone else that has heard it.



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BUDD

01-26-2007 02:19:57




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 Re: OT pickup muffler question in reply to DJL, 01-25-2007 19:18:17  
DJL; If you want any noise at all leave the muffler off and just use the cat. convertor and a tail pipe. Doing this you will get some noise, but not the cackel. Most of the newer trucks that you hear today on the road with loud pipes are done this way. If you want the cackel then you will need to take the cat convertor off and install some sort of glass pack type muller. A 2" tail pipe will give you a good amount of cackel with this set up. I always wanted a true straight pipe sound so a few years ago I installed headers and straight pipes (no mufflers or Cat) on a 84 chevy. This things sounds AWESOME, but man you realy need to watch how you drive to not get into trouble. BUDD

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Michael Price

01-25-2007 20:47:02




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 Re: OT pickup muffler question in reply to DJL, 01-25-2007 19:18:17  
Your going to have a hard time getting the crackle with a fuel injected engine. I have heard that a small pipe gives the crackle but I dont know for sure. I would give the beast the straight pipe roar.



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Crem

01-25-2007 20:34:28




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 Re: OT pickup muffler question in reply to DJL, 01-25-2007 19:18:17  
I have a 1991 E 150 and at least 6 years ago the muffler went bad. I cut the old muffler out and installed a piece of straight pipe in place of the muffler. It works great and I like the sound. The catalytic converter quiets it down enough so that it is not excessively noisy. After doing this I actually could hear the different exhaust sounds when the torque converter locks and unlocks. Before this I didn't know that the torque converter would stay locked up until it reached a certain speed on deceleration. If you try this you may have to put an offset in the new pipe if the muffler has the inlet and outlet at different positions.

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dds-inc

01-25-2007 20:06:22




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 Re: OT pickup muffler question in reply to DJL, 01-25-2007 19:18:17  
i have a 1989 f-150 banger truck that has seen its better days but runs nicely...the muffler and stuff was rotting off of it, so what i did was grab the sawzall and cut it ALL OFF!!! screw freakin' pipes!



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Stumpalump

01-25-2007 19:52:54




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 Re: OT pickup muffler question in reply to DJL, 01-25-2007 19:18:17  
I got money but I sure hate to spend it. Find a local muffler shop and trash pick a clean used muffler. You got a truck grab a few sizes. Bigger is allways better. Some say you need back pressure I say bull, the pipe alone has all the back pressure you need. I had a 2wd 93 f150 300CI straigt six. I miss that truck.



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Wisconsin Cowman

01-25-2007 19:37:55




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 Re: OT pickup muffler question in reply to DJL, 01-25-2007 19:18:17  
If you got a little pipe left go to your farm store and get tractor muffler and clamp that will fit on the pipe and take some good wire and wire her up. Or you can just use a strait pipe too.



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Delbert

01-26-2007 11:05:19




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 Re: OT pickup muffler question in reply to Wisconsin Cowman, 01-25-2007 19:37:55  
That,s what i did to my 84 300 used a m farmall muffler one clamp and the muffler hanger that was there. Makes it sound like a 6 cylinder m farmall. He Ya.



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