Magazine - Quieten that Mower Down!

By Eric Kulaas in Mechanics on 15th Jan 2010 13:00

In the ’90’s we were getting hammered by residents on the course for noise so I experimented with mufflers. Club Car seemed to have the best one on the market. Their carts were quiet and their muffler weighed a lot more than other manufactures.

Seemed like a good candidate. So we got one and tried it on a bunker rake. It quieted it down significantly. The next version I put on a Toro 3100. This was a bit harder, I had to re-work the manifold and muffler quite a bit to make them fit in the available space.



The 3100 sounded like a stealth machine. It was used as a Tee Mower. Problem with it was the operator backed into an immovable object and tore up the manifold. I repaired it but a week later the same thing happened. We opted not to fix it another time and to go back with the original. A pretty good idea but a little costly. In 97 I left the company for a couple years and when I got back, the Bunker Rake had a standard muffler back on it as well.

 

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