[Public-list] Original Muffler Replacement

[Gordon Laco]

Thanks for the report Bill -

It's nice when the news is good news, isn't it?

Cheers  - Gord







> I have sent a few emails regarding replacing my 40 year old black iron,
> asbestos wrapped exhaust pipe and cast iron muffler in the stern locker and am
> grateful for the useful advice from Mike Lehman and Roger Kingsland.  The
> exhaust has been a cause of some concern, regarding a failure at the wrong
> time for the past couple of seasons.
> 
> Well today, I removed everything and with the following results.  The bolts
> attaching the pipe to the manifold which I expected wouldn't move with
> anything short of a miracle, turned readily with moderate pressure on a socket
> wrench.  I then cut the pipe where it attached to the muffler, removed it and
> cut off a piece of the pipe at the front with the exhaust flange.  Again, a
> surprise, the black iron pipe still had it orignal wall thickness.  I
> carefully removed some of the asbestos covering and no apparent rust.  The
> inside was, of course, carbon coated but seemed sound.  The cast iron muffler
> which weighed a ton also seemed solid as a rock.
> 
> This is an obvious advantage of the boat having never been in salt in its life
> time.  So in hindsight I probably could have left it alone, but now the new
> installation will remove concern about an inopportune failure and remove some
> weight from aft. 
> 
> So, once again the old guys at Whitby seemed to know what they were doing.
> 
> Bill Newman
> Marion Rose III #233
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