[Vwdiesel] exhaust sound

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/4/2006 4:15:46 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
mikel at buncombe.main.nc.us writes:

> There's a rather small 
> diameter muffler-looking thing (resonator?) about 2 feet back from the 
> down-pipe and then the rather stock looking muffler at the rear of the 
> car.  It seems especially loud at lower revs when coming back down steep 
> hill and using engine braking only, is it possible that the muffler is 
> original, and it's missing it's usual contents but still looks good on 
> he outside.  Just trying to get up a comprehensie parts list, thanks.
> 
> 

  Mines' an '85 TD and the exhaust and muffler are all pretty nice size
and still like new.  Most of the reason I haven't replaced it with a needed 
2.5".  (That plus I haven't driven anything other than Dad's pu since I'm 
working all the time.  The system looks heavy and at least 2".  It's fairly 
quiet too.  A bit too high of rpms even compared to my Rabbit but nothing 
I recall as making me wonder about noise, etc.
     Loren