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Sound level of the new exhaust seems roughly the same as the old one. The normal mechanical "dieseling" noise from the engine (which hasn't changed) sounds louder than the exhaust. I never really thought about that until trying to listen to the new exhaust. The LB1914's engine bay is just...

I'm assuming it will be an improvement since the old muffler was basically just a fat section of pipe with all the guts having rotted out. I got everything welded up this evening. They're no beauty-pagent welds, but they're solid and I did look down the outlet with my flashlight and there was...

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Got the elbow cleaned up. Needle scaler worked great for getting crap out of the inside (soot + flaky scale). Used an angle grinder around the outside and a benchtop belt sander to square up the end. I cut the inlet pipe of the muffler to 2 inches long. Flared that on the anvil by holding...

Rolled over to Tractor Supply today and looked at what they had. Got a Stanley FO-3 for $50 and a 1.5" flapper for $12. Going to chop the inlet pipe (lower one with the bend) close to the bottom end of the muffler, clean up the elbow from the OEM and weld that there, and probably extend the...

In the market for a new muffler for a 1991 LB1914. OEM replacement is $400 and I'm not paying that. With the heat shield removed, the muffler is about 13 inches long by about 3.375 inches in diameter. Peering into the bottom end of the muffler (where the elbow that bolts to the exhaust...

AgristoreUSA now sells the cat 1 hooks in a kit (88057) or individually (88058): Cat. 1 Euro Style Quick Hitch Hook Kit The boxes for the hooks say ama Lo Snodo on them, which is this this facility in Italy: LO SNODO - AMA Balls are 1.732" OD [44 mm], 0.905" bore, and 1.375" wide. Here's...

'54 TO-30 with 4-cylinder gasser. Bunch of this stuff under the valve cover. Been trying to get out all I can with small spoon and scraper made by pounding the end of some round stock flat. Any tips for removing? Was thinking I'd turn to WD-40 soaked paper towels after exhausting the spoon...

Make something like this out of 1/4". Leave a few small drain notches where the socket meets the plate so water doesn't freeze in there. Or just slather everything with tar, undercoating, or elastomeric roof coating once installed.

Re-cleaned, rebuilt and tested injector 2 yesterday. Good pressure, spray good enough. Got everything back together this morning including new return fuel lines and clamps. The transparent polyurethane stuff is great - when I opened up the air bleed screw on the pump, I was able to watch the...

Got injector 3 re-cleaned and rebuilt. Spray is much better now. Pop pressure was around 2100 psi, which is on the higher end of the specified range. I made sure everything was well-aligned, especially where the butt end of the nozzle needle fits into the spring plate. Here's the assembly...

Tested injectors 2 and 3 tonight. 2 had good pop pressure (~2000 psi), but the spray was a little more "streamy" than injector 1, which was nice and misty. 3 was the worst of the bunch, initially popping at 2800 psi a few times and then popping a good bit lower than 2000 psi. The spray was...

Injector 2 hard line cleaned up: Closeup of hard line end:

Got a working injector tester and mounted it to a piece of thick pallet slat with 5/16-18 tee nuts and bolts. I bent the adapter line 90 degrees with a tubing bender so the injector would sit vertical. Wasn't sure what the return barbs on the injector would do so I stuck some aquarium tubing...

Forgot another measurement... topmost thread (for high pressure line fitting): M12x1.5 I took the frontmost injector apart to clean/check the inside and discovered that the top portion of the lowermost housing is ovaled (inside measures about 0.900" one way, 0.850" the other way). I had...