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Old Jan 6, 2022 | 10:37 PM
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Ohio.... Did you have a muffler shop bend those, or did you buy them pre-fab?
Old Jan 6, 2022 | 10:50 PM
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I had them made up locally.
If you do this, be careful to have them tucked up parallel with the pipes. One of mine hangs a little lower, and scrapes sometimes.
Old Jan 6, 2022 | 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by OhioLariat
I had them made up locally.
If you do this, be careful to have them tucked up parallel with the pipes. One of mine hangs a little lower, and scrapes sometimes.
I was actually under the impression that I only would need one of these, but I assume since you have two - it is necessary?
Old Jan 6, 2022 | 11:18 PM
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Yep. You need one per side, as the drone is generated in both exhaust paths.

EDIT: Of course, I'm assuming you're looking at this for one (or both) of the Mustangs.
Old Jan 7, 2022 | 08:30 AM
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Alright.. thank you. I was under the impression that because the two sides were so similar... then that was causing the resonating. I seem to recall that at some point, Ford toyed around with making one muffler a little smaller than the other to try and eliminate it. That's where my brain thought making one side different would eliminate it.
Old Jan 7, 2022 | 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Jbrew
Might want to make camp, the woods sound good right now.
I actually went a little deeper into the woods than normal yesterday. I had to go check on the hunting cabin and the gates now that deer season is over just to be sure no one happened to stumble through. I think I'm going to hang out down there this weekend and do a little swamp duck hunting.

Sometimes it's good to just unplug.
Old Jan 7, 2022 | 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by white89gt
Alright.. thank you. I was under the impression that because the two sides were so similar... then that was causing the resonating. I seem to recall that at some point, Ford toyed around with making one muffler a little smaller than the other to try and eliminate it. That's where my brain thought making one side different would eliminate it.
Ford did put different mufflers left to right on the Foxes. I think not only were they slightly different in size, but also had internal differences. I'm not sure if that carried through to the 94-98 SN95's or not, but have read that the 99-up models got the same ones on both sides.
Old Jan 7, 2022 | 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by jprevat
I actually went a little deeper into the woods than normal yesterday. I had to go check on the hunting cabin and the gates now that deer season is over just to be sure no one happened to stumble through. I think I'm going to hang out down there this weekend and do a little swamp duck hunting.

Sometimes it's good to just unplug.
Do yuh get a signal out there ? If not , even better.
Old Jan 7, 2022 | 02:48 PM
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Got the pinion seal done. The bearing is the original Timken. It has shiny rollers... no pitting. So, it stayed. The companion flange has seen better days....but it was good enough. I took the pinion nut roughly 1/8 turn past my mark. Tried to measure the drag too.. lol. It is so minimal that it is under 12 inch pounds, which is the minimum my beam style unit goes.

Anyway... thanks all, it turned out perfect.
Old Jan 7, 2022 | 09:06 PM
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Talking about mufflers and their drone. On the S197's, the AT had one set of mufflers and the MT had another. Just for the drone issues. I have manual mufflers on my automatic and have no drone. If I'd have used the AT ones, I'd of had the noise. According to all the forums, when you spit the pipes upfront and run true duals, using the X pipe, MT ones are the best. I read up all over the S197 forums before I did mine. There was nothing but warnings about the droning noise. Use the right set up or your ears won't love you, one of the posters said



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