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Tractor Muffler Designs????
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Posted by davpal on October 24, 2006 at 22:12:22 from (216.93.120.151):
After going through this forum many times and through all the brands it is unbelievable to me that tractor engineers for so many companies could have been so shortsighted on muffler design on tractors. Other than Henry Ford who ran the muffler under the tractor where it should have been it seems like none of the other companies caught on to his good idea. I see more articles on this forum for freeing stuck engines than just about anything on here. It all goes back to a exhaust pipe and muffler that goes straight out of the hood and is completely vulnerable to water ingestion from rain. Seems simple to have a rain cap or a cover right? Obviously not because there has had to have been hundreds of thousands of tractors that have set up from sitting in the weather. I know they are not supposed to be out in the weather but a huge share of them end up out there in the rain. A 9n ford can be parked outside for years and never have that problem. I actually don't see any benefit to having them come out of the hood. They are loud, hot, fumes in your face, and they get rain in them and rust the pistons in. Maybe they thought they were keeping them out of the dry grass, but I have brushogged for years with a 9n in the dead of summer and never had a problem. They are probably the lowest to the ground tractor made too. Seems like somebody would have came up with a nice under the operator exhaust, like all cars have with a quiet muffler that can't ingest water. Think how many vintage machines would have engines that were still in excellant condition because they didn't have to have somebody fill them with tranny oil and pb blaster and then beat on the pistons with a sledghammer!
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