Help!

I just purchased a "stock" muffler from someone on this website and it arrived with the baffle removed.

I am very disappointed but willing to try and work with it.  

Does anyone have an idea if an older baffle can be removed (without difficulty) from another muffler an inserted into another muffler.

The muffler on my savage was damaged when I layed it down and I wanted to get it back to stock condition.  The internals of the muffler has no issues.

Does anyone know if I install the muffler without the baffle will I have to rejet?

R,

J

Thanks.

But I am trying to get the bike to as original as possible.

R,

J

mscepu101 wrote on 05/24/11 at 14:41:32:

Since you stated that you wanted a muff not mod'd (drilled out) I would be very disappointed too, especially if he did not disclose it.

Swapping baffles would at least require a welder and I would rate it difficult.

If you're running stickly stocks jets, yes I would say you need to rejet.  But I would say that you would need to rejet even if you left it stock.  

Because it's too lean stock, unless you're at 10,000 feet.  I'm at 6,000, and had to remove half the spacer on the needle, and richen the main jet, and the pilot jet coule probably stand changing to a larger size, too.  It ran like crap with stock jetting, backfiring merrily along.  
Why not forget the stock muffler and get a Dyna muffler cheap off eBay, 80 decibels stock.  I don't like loud bikes, but I like them to run well, and the Dyna is just fine for me and a lot of folks on this site.

I think I have both baffles from mine around here. The small baffle was held in by a screw wedging it in. The large one slid out about 6" as I was going down the road, so I just pulled it out. Mine didn't run right at all without them. It shouldn't be too hard to put them back or get someone else to. I think they'll fit in one of those $10 to anywhere Postal boxes. Pm me if you want them, or the whole muffler, but it has acouple of 1/4" holes in the end. It also has a couple of stains on it that I cannot get out. Not bad but they are there and the heat shield. Whatever you need.

All this talk about rejetting with the stock pipe really floors me, I live at about 2500 feet and ride between home and about 3500. My 09 California bike is stock except for a OEM type K&N and 2.5 turns out on the pilot screw. It runs great, rarely makes a little putt at shutdown, has plenty of power (for a 650cc) all the way through the power range. I also own and ride a 900cc Kawasaki and I can tell you this little Suzuki is not only my favorite bike but runs stronger to about 70mph than any other bike I've owned. I can only imagine the power and speed you guys must be getting,but I'm almost 60 years old and don't want to go much over about 70 on any bike or car for that matter so I'll just leave mine alone.

I have a 2009 stock muffler that is sitting around if you'd be interested?  It has about 1000 miles on it I believe.

hey mscepu101 - don't know if you got this sort out yet, but if you want to pay shipping, i've got one you can have. No holes drilled, no mods done. it's from a 97 and had about 10,000 on the bike when I pulled it. PM me if you want it