1S1K
New member
- Joined
- Dec 30, 2013
- Messages
- 15
- Location
- Oregon
- Tractor
- 2012 JD 3720, 1967 John Deere 1020, 1961 Ford 881D, 1952 Cat D4
So, what brought all of this on was the fact I was tired of sucking exhaust every time I got out to put something in the bucket or switching between bucket, root grapple and pallet forks. I am also tired of soot building up on the lower part of the hood and front loader. I have some fabrication skills and equipment, so I decided to build a vertical exhaust. The other reason I built one instead of buying from John Deere is that I didn't want to cut a hole in my hood. This way it doesn't block my view at all and I can return it to stock if I ever want to for some reason. I had a flange laser cut from 304 Stainless to match the shape of the original pipe adapter on the turbo. The hole through the original flange is only 1.5", I had the flange made so I can run a full 2" pipe all the way out.
Before I had the stainless flange made a built a test pipe out of scrap steel tubing left over from a header build to see if it was in my line of site too much and to get an idea of fit and sound without spending any money. In the last pic you can see the test pipe and the beginning of the stainless system.
As I went I welded and filled the gap in the flange with a scrap of tubing, I fish mouth cut the end of the pipe at the flange so I could get full flow from the turbo and the pipe is slightly oval shaped at the flange.
Before I had the stainless flange made a built a test pipe out of scrap steel tubing left over from a header build to see if it was in my line of site too much and to get an idea of fit and sound without spending any money. In the last pic you can see the test pipe and the beginning of the stainless system.
As I went I welded and filled the gap in the flange with a scrap of tubing, I fish mouth cut the end of the pipe at the flange so I could get full flow from the turbo and the pipe is slightly oval shaped at the flange.
