um... muffler exploded lmao

[zoideraserb]

well i was driving down the road at a constant 35 or so, just passing one of the few "thug" infested gas stations here when i heard a hell of an explosion and my damn truck moved...! honestly it sounded like a shotgun so i down shifted and hauled ass lmao. i stopped at a drive through a few blocks down and got out to check then i noticed my exuast was considerably louder, then a car full of ppl that were pulling out of the gas station i was passing got to the red light right by me and proceded to tell me that something underneth exploded, so i looked and seen this!





now i suspect that running rich will cause something to this effect over a long term but i'm not rich, no black smoke or smoke of any kind, other then if i forget and pump it to start after it already warmed up then i get a very small puff of black then nothing. so wtf? i'm running no cat, pipe in the place and just what was the muff then out the drivers side behind the tire. any ideas?

oh and btw its a '86 yota truck 2.4l 2bbl

[beandip]

damn! i didnt know they could explode. so did gas fumes build up in there or something?

[greencactus3]

weeirrrd

[bmxbang]

wow im not even mad. thats amazing.

[travy]

yeah, that's kind of cool

[zachmartin83]

bad bearings?




haha jk

[02_Black_XBlazer]

98 SS once had a pic of muffler he exploded too, but his had something to do with bad welds and lots of boost....

[Criticalbeatdown95s]

That's a conversation piece for the garage wall right thur....

[stevehh]

Damn that is cool as shit dude!

I never seen a case come apart like that!

[Paddywad]

I had a muffler do that on my '73 El Camino, 350 v8 2bbl. It ended up being the coil pack. I replaced the coil pack and plug wires. Then it was good to go. So check your coil pack.

[beaniebmx]

the truck wants a new shiny muffler

it could be alot of things, the one thing i can think of is too much pressure in there would baloon it and explode, but who knows, could be lots of things to cause it, first thing i picture, is gas inside the muffler that ignited and decided it wanted to blow the muffler up, who knows

[DJDAudio]

like said above classic case of a bad muffler bearing

[Petterle]

keep your bearings lubed up, and be sure to check your fuel injected brake lines too.....just a tip lol

[Rhotpursuit]

'86...it's probably the original...time for it to be replaced anyway.

[mountaindewguy]

See what happens when you don't replace your muffler belts every 25k miles?

[bigjd]

that looks like low head light fluid or bad kanuter valve

[bgdime]

Tune the boost controller on your tailgate, replace the screw in the bottom left of your glovebox, and you should be good to go...lmfao


thats crazy, ive never seen anything do that....that would take a shit load of pressure..i would think so anyway.

[yourname]

yeah man extreme case of when the muffler bearings let go. lol. but it could be a backfire. my fullsize made a shotgun like noise, and my mufflers look like marshmallows. if they were old, they woulda blew up like that. ill try 2 get a pic they look funny as hell.

[s-10hater]

i had both my mufflers split open on my 76 scout.like if you cut down the middle with a dull butter knife.they did it at differant times also.it has true duals so i think it is just a case of bad muffler bearings and low turn signal fluid.or worst case a bad headlight cooler , either way the end result is not good.

[wickedklown]

ive had a semi muffler stack do that as it drove by
talk about some scary sh*t

[sLonoma22]

if you tap your brake three times fast... you'll usually blow up the muffler. But other than that the headlight fluid could be the other cause of this tragedy.

[jd101proof]

i exploded a muffler once on my camaro, hahaha!! it was fantastic! after $400 and lots of trial and error i found out my ignition coil was bad....go figure right? but it had other signs...the engine would just drop out, and my tach would flatline for a second......then.......WHAM!! it was kinda funny now that i think bout it

[MikDee]

Been there, Done that! nothin new, When I was a kid driving Mom, & Dad's car, my friends, and I used to get our car's up to highway speeds in gear, then turn the ignition off, wait a few seconds, then turn it back on, and "Boom" we'd always get a nice backfire! Sometimes the muffler used to blow out, or partly blow out, leaving us with a loud, or louder car, and we loved it,,, Mom, & Dad, weren't too happy, nor could they figure out why their car went thru so many mufflers?

Yes, I'd agree any momentary break in the ignition circuit as the vehicle is under power can do this, but also raw gas leaking into the hot exhaust from a bad carb, or injector, can cause this also.

[EYEOPNR]

neat... no idea what would cause shit like that to happen tho

[Curtis2k]

Well at least nobody was injured in the tragic yoda explosion of 2007. You know, even my DODGE never quite exploded

[s-10hammered]

i had a friend that had that happen to his 240, all that stuff inside the cat broke apart into small peices and cloged up the muffler and kaboom! our town is ghetto as hell so we thought we were gettin shot at too!

[Noremac]

hehe, bad muffler bearings, go buy you some...

http://kalecoauto.com/index.php?main...oducts_ id=10

[1BadElky]

did you check your muffler fluid?

[Disco Inferno]

All you have to do is get some skyhooks to hold up the muffler, then apply the bucket of spotwelds with your left handed wrench and then seal with some checkered paint and you wil be good to go.

[quick-shift86]

sounds to me like your rotator splint came off and took out your muff. bearing out at the same time....lol

whats really fun is when you have an old truck that needs carb work and having the ignition shut down for an instant and have it back fire like that but with a really rotten down pipe on the exhaust.
friend had this happen and it puffed out the muffler and blew the exhaust off basically right behind the manifold. was loud as hell when it did it and loud as hell all the way home too..lol

[85smallblock]

my dads flowmaster did that he was towing his trailer at about 30mph also his truck runs prime but its only a half ton and it was towing a 28ft holiday trailer and all of a sudden his truck got real loud and case peeled back like a banana.

[Donahue]

nuff said...

[02_Black_XBlazer]

Nice....the busted muffler/super-rubbing driveshaft double whammy!