Exhaust cover-Solved

sald · Sep 15, 2018

I sometimes can't stand to listen to the popping sound of my exhaust cap. I tried switching to a can and then felt like now it was another thing to remember. If it didn't shoot off when I started it or forgot to put it back on when done. So... I drilled a 5/16 hole trough the base and the cover and then welded a 1/4 nut over the hole. See the pictures. Now I can pick and choose when I don't want to hear the popping and no parts to lose.

Janicholson · Sep 15, 2018

Other than very hot when you decide to lock it open, great idea. Jim

Traditional Farmer · Sep 15, 2018

Guess I missed it why do you want to hold the cap open?

SVcummins · Sep 15, 2018

Because the cap rattles and pops do this holds it solid . Wonder what tractor it?s on??

john in la · Sep 15, 2018

So now like the can you have to remember to loosen the hot bolt when you park the tractor so the cap will close.

A stack turnout may be a better choice for you.

showcrop · Sep 15, 2018

My caps never rattle. Full throttle from start up to shut down they stay straight up

davpal · Sep 15, 2018

He'll forget to take it back off some day and it will rain it in. I guarantee it. I have a plastic cover on one of my tractors and I don't put it on until the exaust cools off. Last time that was about 3 days later.

Traditional Farmer · Sep 15, 2018

If the cap is flipping up and down you most likely have an intake problem.

rrlund · Sep 15, 2018

I think all it needs to take the rattle out is a rubber gasket from a canning lid. LOL

rustyfarmall · Sep 15, 2018

I have an H that used to do that. I adjusted the ignition timing. That is all it took.

sald · Sep 15, 2018

Doesn't burn my fingers... Yes I can forget to close it but easier than losing a can. It's on an Farmall A. It only pops at idle, stands straight anything over 700 RPM. Just wanted to give people an alternative to a soup can.

Ian Beale · Sep 15, 2018

I was in one of our local parts stores just as a customer was getting a new exhaust cap like that one. He noticed that the flap had a plastic bearing tube over the pivot bolt and the comment was

"No more rattles!"

tomturkey · Sep 15, 2018

I just love to see the soup can fly on start-up. Then I promptly back over the soup can embedding it in the ground and flattening it out. lol gobble

Janicholson · Sep 15, 2018

My wife think the dink dink sound is funny, so I leave it. Jim

sald · Sep 15, 2018

This is why I came up with idea. I dont have to lock it open but have the choice.

DoubleO7 · Sep 15, 2018

I have the cast aluminum rain cap/flap.
I just used some hi-temp RTV silicone to glue a disc of exhaust gasket under the flapper lid.
Now it goes thud thud thud....thud thud........thud

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