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Tech Talk => Engine Mechanical / Electrical => Topic started by: Marcsrollin on May 31, 2009, 11:31:15 AM

Title: How do you get stuck baffles out?
Post by: Marcsrollin on May 31, 2009, 11:31:15 AM
Anyone have a trick up their sleeve?
Title: Re: How do you get stuck baffles out?
Post by: GT Jets on May 31, 2009, 11:34:35 AM
Anyone have a trick up their sleeve?

In a header pipe we use a heat gun (like the ones for stripping paint) and put a wet rag inside the baffles, heat up the outside of the pipe and pull on the baffle, works 90% of the time...
Sometimes need some soft faced dead blow hammer action, use a towel over the hammer to keep from scratching the coating and hit it from the rear of the pipe.... ;)


Otherwise leave the bolts out and go boating, they will be gone when you get back home :banghead:

GT
Title: Re: How do you get stuck baffles out?
Post by: JWBOYER21 on May 31, 2009, 11:40:19 AM

Otherwise leave the bolts out and go boating, they will be gone when you get back home :banghead:

GT

haha did that once not on purpose!
Title: Re: How do you get stuck baffles out?
Post by: Brad @ SCJB on May 31, 2009, 12:26:32 PM
i have a tire iron that has a hook on it...that and some earl (wd40)
Title: Re: How do you get stuck baffles out?
Post by: Donjuan on May 31, 2009, 02:26:30 PM
What about a come a long?
Title: Re: How do you get stuck baffles out?
Post by: pw_Tony on May 31, 2009, 02:41:36 PM
In a header pipe we use a heat gun (like the ones for stripping paint) and put a wet rag inside the baffles, heat up the outside of the pipe and pull on the baffle, works 90% of the time...
Sometimes need some soft faced dead blow hammer action, use a towel over the hammer to keep from scratching the coating and hit it from the rear of the pipe.... ;)


Otherwise leave the bolts out and go boating, they will be gone when you get back home :banghead:

GT

Yup.... could damage the headers... but you want them out...

I've also rigged up a slide hammer to hook to a baffle.... tink tink tink out
Title: Re: How do you get stuck baffles out?
Post by: Marcsrollin on May 31, 2009, 04:00:21 PM
I left the bolt out for the whole memorial day weekend and it was still there when I got home!

The dent puller worked great. ;D
Title: Re: How do you get stuck baffles out?
Post by: IRRebel on May 31, 2009, 05:52:59 PM
Hose them down with PB blaster (Amazing stuff). Leave it sit over night, beat around the header with a board( hit the board with a hammer while holding it on the header), then soak it down again. I had to do this over 5 days to get one of mine out of my Bassetts. Then when I held the header and smacked it down on a board on the garage floor, fell right out.

Ray
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