Massey 4253 going low profile -- need reroute exhaust

[russalabama]

Hi... I have a 4253 Massey open station 2wd with the 1036 factory loader. I'm using it for several things, including square baling hay. I have a accumulator to run behind the baler that I bought used and am going to try to get attached and running in the next month. It gets 10 bales on the table and puts them down in one spot. Its a Hoelscher model 1000. There's a grapple from the same company and that mounts on the front end loader to pick all the bales up at once to put on the trailer, and to take off the trailer to put in halls of a barn/shed. There's where I get in trouble. The sheds I want to put the hay in were there a long time now and I'm wanting to use them, but they're too short for the tractor by a few inches. I'm taking off the canopy and folding down the roll bar, but the exhaust still is too high. So, I have looked for a factory low-profile pipe, thinking that there'd have been a market for standard pipes for orchard or chicken-house guys would need that kind of thing (like a turn-down pipe that just goes down the side of the cowling/engine-cover), to use a standard model tractor like a low profile specialty model. Any of you guys know of such a off-the-shelf pipe? An alternative would be taking the tractor to a muffler shop and paying to get something fabbed. I'd like to save a day's time if its an off the shelf deal for standard pipe sizes that I can buy and put on in an hour.
Thanks, Russ. View attachment 424608

 

[Xfaxman]

Did you check with the dealer?

Many years ago I had a MF240D that had the vertical muffler. I had the fitting for the horizontal, so I put it on and trailered it to the local muffler shop. They made the pipe for it.

 

[russalabama]

Did you check with the dealer?

Many years ago I had a MF240D that had the vertical muffler. I had the fitting for the horizontal, so I put it on and trailered it to the local muffler shop. They made the pipe for it.

Hi Xfaxman... thanks for the response (and sorry for my delay in response)... I talked with the Massey dealer nearby and he could print out the detailed drawing, parts numbers, etc., but the low profile kit (and all the individual pipe parts) were long ago discontinued. But, I have a detailed drawing of how Massey routed it. And he said he'd do what you did, and recommended a muffler shop that I'd used before (and I had good experience with them also). The part I wouldn't have without sacrificing it to the change out is the flange that goes on the turbo. Currently, its flange on turbo to pipe to muffler, to elbow and vertical pipe. I guess I'd be asking him to cut flange, weld to his elbow and down pipe, to an elbow, to a muffler (my old one or a new one), and to a tailpipe under the axle like you did. I hate to do it, but its too good a tractor to not use for my low profile use. Nice 240, btw. I like how you did the pipe, and the grill gaurd and front hitch are also nice.