Goodevening everyone!!
So, here's a picture that someone sent to me, part of a John Deere tractor... As you can see, its an exhaust pipe thats... cracked...
If it were a standard piece of exhaust tubing, I could fix it up in no time... Just grind it out, and weld it up...
But I've never seen a crack like this before... Looks brittle, almost like cast iron, but the part itself looks like standard galvanized exhaust pipe...
The only thing I can think, is that it's steel, and rusted paper thin on the inside (even tho it looks good on the outside) and this is just where the internal damage is starting to show... Kinda like pinholes forming in the bottom of an old air compressor...
Anyway, I just thought I'd ask here... I'd have to have the guy bring his tractor out, just to have the entire pipe shatter like glass when I tried to work on it...
Any thoughts? Like I said, I've never seen anything like it, but thats not saying much
Thanks in advance, guys...
So, here's a picture that someone sent to me, part of a John Deere tractor... As you can see, its an exhaust pipe thats... cracked...
If it were a standard piece of exhaust tubing, I could fix it up in no time... Just grind it out, and weld it up...
But I've never seen a crack like this before... Looks brittle, almost like cast iron, but the part itself looks like standard galvanized exhaust pipe...
The only thing I can think, is that it's steel, and rusted paper thin on the inside (even tho it looks good on the outside) and this is just where the internal damage is starting to show... Kinda like pinholes forming in the bottom of an old air compressor...
Anyway, I just thought I'd ask here... I'd have to have the guy bring his tractor out, just to have the entire pipe shatter like glass when I tried to work on it...
Any thoughts? Like I said, I've never seen anything like it, but thats not saying much
Thanks in advance, guys...