To be honest, I never heard it run with an original muffler. I picked it up with the side of the factory muffler rusted out, and made my own muffler because I couldn't afford the factory one. After the connecting rod blew out when my dad was running it a few years later, I decided to rebuild the engine and find a better muffler. This one is a fair bit quieter than my homemade one, but still louder than the pepperpot muffler on my Original when standing on the loud side of the machine. The 169 is loud from any side... I can tolerate it without earplugs, but usually wear some on principle now unless I'm just moving it around for a minute. It's much louder than the same muffler on the Ferguson TO-35 sadly.
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169 with tiller, 50C mower deck, Earthcavator, 42" front blade, Brinly tt100 toolbar, and QA42A snowblower, and now an Original!
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