Posted by Hugh MacKay on February 12, 2008 at 07:25:43 from (209.226.247.170):
In Reply to: Vertical exhaust posted by Mark W. on February 12, 2008 at 06:45:08:
Mark: Only two places the oil can come from, breather cup too full, or it's coming up past your rings. Is it fresh oil or just a black mixture of gas and oil? Quite an easy fix if the breather cup is too full, not quite so easy if coming by the rings from the crankcase.
Your not going to hurt anything by cutting 3" off the top of that mufler. I've had 8" off my SA for years, mainly to keep it from catching trees when mowing. Just use a hack saw and smooth it with a grinder afterwards. If it's just a matter of getting through the shed door, throw the damn rain cap away, that will give you 3" extra clearence, and the 3" of pipe will do you more good than the rain cap. One thing I don't like with my SA with pipe cut off, if wind is right direction, it blows fumes in one's face. Without the raincap very little of that oil mist will hit your paint job. If the tractor is just going to sit out one night overnight it wont take on enough water to fill a thimble even in a 3" rain fall, providing there is not a high building or tree deflecting water down the stack. If it's going to sit out long term, soup can is the best raincap. I've seen those raincaps up in rain and wind, and actually deflecting water down the stack.
I've also seen raincaps catch on tree limbs and break the manifold or exhaust pipe on small tractors. They do last quite well on a diesel, however gassers burn rain caps up in 600 hours. Just a waste on money in my opinion.
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