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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 487 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2005 Posts: 487 | No questions today -- just sharing. I have been having some stumbling and misfires on my 55.1 recently, but hadn't had time to diagnose it. (Loose wire on coil). Yesterday morning the engine cut out for about 5-10 seconds. When it refired, the muffler exploded! Here's pix -- looking aft looking forward I bet it looked spectacular from from the back. It was sure loud in the cab. Oddly enough, the truck still is not horrifically loud. I guess because the muffler split on the bottom. regards, Leon | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 2,393 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 2,393 | Wow, never seen that before!
Drew
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 321 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 321 | I've never even heard of that before. I never would have thought it possible.
1963 Chevy C20 Longbed Stepside
1978 Chevy K30 Custom Deluxe
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,388 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,388 | Those are awesome pictures. I can't believe that happened. I mean, did you have a potato in the back? Boy, I would have loved to have seen that!!! Good Work! | | | | | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 15 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 15 | Muffler filled with unburned fuel while the engine wasn't running. Ignition came back, and BOOM!
Wenco Ind. Driveshafts VAn Nuys, CA Est. 1967
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 143 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 143 | | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | wait till you see a pix of a battery exploding..... or be near one.. seen it happen once many yrs ago a pix of what it looked like not actual pix of what i saw........this was way before one could take a pix of ever thing...
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Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 108 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 108 | Seen that muffler explosion several times over my career, might get expensive, I would get that ignition interuption fixed.
Battery explosion are a lot my dangerous to technicians, shrapnel, flames, acid and fumes. Not to mention the damage to the vehicle paint job and test equipment. I had a new battery blow on me in 1982 during a SUN ELECTRIC VAT 40 load test procedure. The customer's car was a mess afterwards.........I thought I was back in Nam!!
Best Regards
Will
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 143 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 143 | Your post got me thinking. My 65' 3/4ton had had a few backfires due to a worn out ignition switch. The backfires were comparable to a shotgun blast. So just now, I ran up to the garage to see if my indeed my muffler had also been damage. Alas, I found that the entire two foot section of my exhaust pipe - just past the muffler- has been blown completely off! | | | | | Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 554 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 554 | Reminds me of an ill-spent youth. We frequently did this on purpose "back in the day". All you have to do is switch off the ignition for 5-6 while in a deceleration mode, then turn it back on without hitting the throttle. Especially effective going downhill. You get a very loud explosion at the least and often blow the muffler out just like shown by Leon. I am almost surprised I used to be that dumb.
Chuck | | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 97 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 97 | yes back in the day did the same thing to my dad's truck once and a few other thing's.... ill-spent youth is right ..best time was with a 427 truck with glass packs lol. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 149 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 149 | Lol, those pictures that you posted are hilarious! Haha, a blown apart muffler! Watch out everyone, there is a grenade in every tail pipe!
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| | | | | Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 6 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 6 | I had that happen to me once. The car was in my garage. Wouldn't start. Then.......KABOOM!
I had to go in the house & get cleaned up afterwards, if ya know what I mean!! | | |
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