[dezrcr822]

Did a muffler bbq and had an interesting time with it. Muffler weighed 25lbs before cooking and now weighs in at 18lbs. Cooked it for like 8 or so hours and it was cherry red and stopped smoking so I thought I was done,lol. When I picked it up after cooling I could hear all sorts of stuff ratteling around like the kids put rocks down the hole or something. I decided to try and back flush it with water and that was a mistake as I had a hell of a time getting the water out so back in the fire it went. Once red then cooled again I tried to get the junk out of it to no avail and decided my best course of action was to cut the s o b open. As I took the grinder to my mint dare I say priceless j17 exhaust I pondered for a moment with another beer then pulled the trigger. I cut both end caps off and they were packed solid with burned up carbon that resembled moon rocks. I beat and banged while flipping it over for at least three more hours over the next day and a half and got 95% of it all out. I couldnt bring my self to totally cut it apart as I had no idea where all the baffels and such were on this goofy j17. Welded it up and its good as new now no more smoke screen when we go down the road. Of course im now running a different pipe so theres that.