Yes that's the first part of the mod where u take the pipe out with this mod you can do it your self and it will be a lot quieter than adding a silencer and you don't have to worry about breaking it of when using the dump bed i have a friend that has the silencer and said he can't use the dump cause the silencer is in the way I don't have one so I'm not 100 percent sure but the 2014 machines I did are now 5 months old and no problems yet as I mentioned before I did this mod to gators 2 years + and no problems