Usually i use a DENT style puller with a weighted handle on the shaft (back pounder) and using a Home made "J" shaped finger on the shaft threaded end to grab beyond the baffle insides.... a little tapping on the rod and "J" pulling will loosen the baffle and it should come right out..
Or Make a tool,,,, LONG threaded end shaft 5/8 or 3/4 threaded end... make a angle iron 1/4 1x1 and drill one side to fit angle on shaft,,, double nut it and use as the Finger inside baffle (modify finger as needed)..... You can grab the shaft back inside far enough and with clamp pliers (old ones) hammer on them enough to get baffle Loose..
Careful when you put baffles back in and align them to the same muffler and in the same position so as the screws will align..
If not aligned when you put them back on,,,might have to pull off enough to turn them and HOPE..
Hope I did Okay for you! :newsmile040:
signed....BUBBIE
Glider, You are so down to earth...... Your post wasn't even there Yet.... Took me forever