512high
Bronze Member
Hey Waxman, May I ask what type of "heat" paint you used? Brand name and "color", looks real good!
Finally, an Exhaust Stack for my Grand L 3240 cab
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Hey Waxman, May I ask what type of "heat" paint you used? Brand name and "color", looks real good!
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WaxMan
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k0ua
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You have done a good job my man!. It looks great!.:thumbsup:
greenrider1
Silver Member
Looks great! Now what are you going to do with all the time you'll save not having to clean all the black soot off the loader frame? I wish someone would start selling these as a kit for those of us without the mechanical skills or time to fabricate our own stacks.
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WaxMan
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Sorry I had to rewrite this so it makes sense, I was too tired last night to fool with it so I removed it.
If I could get some muffler company to use my stack as a pattern and bend /make the pipe exactly the same way I did, so it would fit as a bolt on kit I would.
I don't know about you guys but I would have bought a bolt on stack kit in a heartbeat if one was available.
The bends would have to be exact because of the close clearance with the turning tire, the side panel and having it go up level and end up level.
In fact, it is just a little off level going up the side of the cab, because the cab tips inward, the pipe being level at that point didn't looked right, it looked like the pipe was tipping out, so I had to adjust for what looked the best.
I doubt there will ever be an aftermarket stack kit available that one can just bolt on without adjustments and some welding involved. It's not like the exhaust under your car, where a little off here or there won't matter much.
If an Exhaust shop made one start to finish to fit the tractor by their own means, they could make them all the same after that.
But to copy mine, Not being the way they would do it in the first place , might be hard to make a bolt on kit from copying me.
On my other tractor "B3030" when I made my stack, I first made it out of plastic PVC pipe and my heat gun, I brought the piece bent the way I wanted it to Muffler shop as a pattern. The guy fooled with it, and fooled with it, wasted a few pieces of pipe, but could not make the bends match exactly. The pipe was close but once I brought the pipe back home I had to do a lot of cut and weld and fool with it to make it fit right. Picture shows after I cut and welled to fit.
B3030 stack
Here is the latest picture of my tractor, Stack, running lights and spot mirrors with custom turned mounting brackets. My spot mirrors just focus in on my lollypop lights so I can see if branches are going to hit. Plus they fill the space above the mirrors I think.
I thought this picture looked funny last night but then I realized the stack outlet is facing toward the front and not the side as it appearers from this angle in the picture.
Spot mirror brackets.
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greenrider1
Silver Member
If you can find a shop to duplicate your work, I'm sure a lot of people would be interested, myself included. A group buy would make it worthwhile once someone can duplicate the original. I'm not sure if there would be differences among the various Grand L models, but the cab attachment points should be the same.
greenrider1
Silver Member
It's funny, but I could literally buy thousands of aftermarket products for my Duramax powered Chevy, but very little exists in the aftermarket world for utility tractors, unless you are the do-it-yourself type.
Scooby074
Super Member
Looks good. :thumbsup: Looks factory.
About the only thing that concerns me a bit is the actual exhaust outlet. It could be the angle of the pictures, but it looks like the bottom edge of the outlet is sticking out past the top of the outlet like a lip (ie: angle not steep enough). Id worry about water getting in..
Other than that, its real slick!
About the only thing that concerns me a bit is the actual exhaust outlet. It could be the angle of the pictures, but it looks like the bottom edge of the outlet is sticking out past the top of the outlet like a lip (ie: angle not steep enough). Id worry about water getting in..
Other than that, its real slick!
