Hello all,

i have a 23 yrs old ISUZU Dragon Pick-up truck, diesel. The muffler fell off. Is it save to continue driving without muffler or can it cause damage to the motor?

Any helpful reply will be appreciated.

Thanks for your attention.

Will only damage the ears of anybody close by

It wouldn't hurt the engine. It will be really noisy. Performance may suffer very slightly but I doubt you would detect this. Go to an enhaust shop. Yu may be able to pick up a newish one off of a truck that had its original replaced. I doubt it would cost much at all.

It wouldn't hurt the engine. It will be really noisy. Performance may suffer very slightly but I doubt you would detect this. Go to an enhaust shop. Yu may be able to pick up a newish one off of a truck that had its original replaced. I doubt it would cost much at all.

Don't fit a new split system ☺☺☺

See my post on exhaust changes

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Well in Thailand you can drive without it if you would drive in OZ

you would be pulled up and fined

Thanks a lot for your replies!

Be careful that you don't lose the exhaust pipe.If that goes you can have to much heat on the exhaust valves.Muffler you'll be ok.

You might enjoy the sound.

Isnt a Muffler some kind of America Male.

transam, thanks. i did look underneath. seems to be nothing close that could be affected by hot gases. Thanks again.

Strange that terminology grew up so differently in the relatively modern age of communication that saw the development of the car/automobile (they forgot that one!). Spent a couple of years working/living in the US, so I'm quite familiar with a few of the differing terms but did not realise there were so many.

British term American term
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accumulator battery
actuator switch or servo
Artic articulated lorry = "tractor-trailer"
baulk ring synchro ring
bonnet hood
boot trunk
bulkhead firewall
choke tube venturi
core plug freeze plug
crocodile clip alligator clip
crosshead Phillips
crown wheel ring gear
cubby box glove box or glove compartment
damper shock absorber
drive shaft half shaft or axle shaft
drop-head coupe convertible version of 2 door coupe
dumpy screwdriver short screwdriver
dynamo generator
earth ground
estate station wagon
fascia dashboard
fixed-head coupe 2 door coupe
frogeye bugeye
Gallon (Imperial) 5 US Quarts
gearbox transmission
gudgeon pin wrist pin
hood convertible top
jointing compound gasket sealant
lorry truck
mole wrench Vice grips
monocoque unibody
MOT DOT
Ministry of Transport Department of Transportation
nave plate hubcap
nose front of car
paraffin kerosene
pinking knocking or pinging
prop shaft drive shaft
petrol gasoline
prise pry
proud above or raised
quarterlight vent window
rev counter tachometer
ring gear flywheel gear, or starter gear
roadster car that only comes in a convertible style
roundabout rotary, traffic circle
RoStyle type of steel wheel (as opposed to wire)
saloon 2 or 4 door sedan
scuttle cowl
side curtains removable side windows
silencer muffler
sill rocker panel
Shooting Brake station wagon
spanner wrench
split pin cotter pin
spring washer lock washer
squab part of seat
suction advance vacuum advance
sump oil pan
thrust bearing throwout bearing
tickover idle
top gear high gear
torch flashlight
trunnion sliding or rotating joint (suspension)
Tyre tire
wheel nut lug nut
whitworth Brtish thread measuring standard
windscreen windshield
wing fender

I've always found Straightaways rather funny rather than Home Straight ,and my English is bad inknow T.A..[emoji469]

Any probe wit the Catalitic thingy when muffler falls off.??