No muffler
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No muffler
I have a 99 cummins I was told by a cummins mechanic that not having a muffler, just a open exhaust would eventually destroy the turbo is that true?
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I agree with 1-2-3. If the tech is saying that by replacing your stock muffler with straight pipe you'll kill the turbo, then he's an idiot and has no business holding a wrench in a Cummins shop.
I still have a hard time believing that you could harm the turbo even by completely removing the exhaust system. Probably wouldn't do your firewall and engine compartment any good though.
Mike
I still have a hard time believing that you could harm the turbo even by completely removing the exhaust system. Probably wouldn't do your firewall and engine compartment any good though.
Mike
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No pipe on a turbo during a hard pull would probably make a cool video. I would think it would burn right thru a firewall. You might can actually weld with it.
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I had about 140 thousand miles on the 99 and now 108 thousand on the 04 with no mufflers. if a turbo was gonna get messed up by that i would have seen several turbos already. I believe that'll be about 248,000 miles of sweet strait pipe tunes. They oughta make a radio station that plays only strait pipe. I'd set it and leave it there forever.
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