so, as I've been upgrading equipment lately, and doing some health risk analysis, I've been noticing incredible amount of diesel exhaust fumes on our jobsites, the saws are bad enough, but do we really need weed burner exhausts on the trucks dumping fumes out on the ground to float around for us groundies to breath in?
the dilemma for me is this, if I re-route the exhaust to a stack that exits above the cab, great, much less fumes to inhale for everybody, its above the groundies and gets blown around by the wind, and anyone in the bucket is above the fumes like normal, less overall percentage of carbon monoxide, and other crap that diesel gives off when burnt
but, then the little bit of soot ends up on the boom, directly in the middle of the insulated section of the upper boom, carbon is extremely conductive, so that's not really a good thing
my dump truck will be getting a stack in the near future as that'll be super easy, and im not worried about the soot like I am on the bucket truck
anyone here have thoughts or anything to add? a little nicer sound would be a bonus, this truck sounds amazing with no exhaust but its friggen loud, painfully loud actually, the stock exhaust is still pretty annoyingly loud and sounds like crap, just a muffled "PSHHHHHHHH" the whole time with a little turbo "stututu" mixed in sometimes
im thinking probably a 5" stainless pipe coming out of the stock muffler, back and up the drivers side corner of the cab with an elbow at the top to direct everything out and away from the boom best as I can, the truck doesn't smoke much but it does smoke enough to cover the tool boxes in soot over a few weeks time, might do like the new pickups with the little punched out "flaps" a foot or so behind the exhaust exit, to pull clean air in and dilute the smoke even more
the dilemma for me is this, if I re-route the exhaust to a stack that exits above the cab, great, much less fumes to inhale for everybody, its above the groundies and gets blown around by the wind, and anyone in the bucket is above the fumes like normal, less overall percentage of carbon monoxide, and other crap that diesel gives off when burnt
but, then the little bit of soot ends up on the boom, directly in the middle of the insulated section of the upper boom, carbon is extremely conductive, so that's not really a good thing
my dump truck will be getting a stack in the near future as that'll be super easy, and im not worried about the soot like I am on the bucket truck
anyone here have thoughts or anything to add? a little nicer sound would be a bonus, this truck sounds amazing with no exhaust but its friggen loud, painfully loud actually, the stock exhaust is still pretty annoyingly loud and sounds like crap, just a muffled "PSHHHHHHHH" the whole time with a little turbo "stututu" mixed in sometimes
im thinking probably a 5" stainless pipe coming out of the stock muffler, back and up the drivers side corner of the cab with an elbow at the top to direct everything out and away from the boom best as I can, the truck doesn't smoke much but it does smoke enough to cover the tool boxes in soot over a few weeks time, might do like the new pickups with the little punched out "flaps" a foot or so behind the exhaust exit, to pull clean air in and dilute the smoke even more