Muffler baffles

[jselden78]

I was looking at a couple of different saws of mine earlier and a list of in stock (my garage) parts and out of stock parts. I noticed some mufflers I have in spare inventory have a baffle and some don't. I of course went shopping and noticed that there are some aftermarket mufflers out there that do not have the baffle. There are a couple of Homelite NOS mufflers on ebay and they of course have the baffle. Is there a negative to running without the baffle aside from maybe being a bit louder?

[onlyhomelites]

I don' think you'll lose enough back-pressure to affect runability, but as you noted they will be louder!

[sweepleader]

It would likely change the tune a little but since most saws need tuning often, you might not notice.