JRBAMATEX
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I don't know if what I am thinking of doing is good or bad. Also not sure if I am just masking a bigger problem. Here's the deal. My draft tube emits a little smoke (Exhaust) when I first crank it up. More specifically it always emits SOME exhaust but more when I first crank it up. Nothing major. Just enough so that you can see fumes creeping into the cab through the transmission shifter hole in the tunnel while warming up. When you crank it at night and you have the head lights on and stand outside you can see a little fume cloud in the head lights. If you start it in the day time and look under the truck with a flashlight and up at the tube coming down above the front axle you can just see a little smoke coming out of it. Then once it warms up this all seems to fade away. So you see it doesn't seem like a major thing. In fact maybe it is supposed to do this. OK.. All this said. Here's what I think I am going to do about it. First I am going to finish making shifter boots to seal the T-Case and Tranny shifter holes in the tunnel. Then I am going to get a big rubber matt to cover the whole floor of the truck so that other little holes like in the M.C. access flap don't let in fumes. But the one really big thing I am thinking of is to attach a 1.5" hose to the draft tube and run it out the back of the truck. I hope to keep the nasty stuff off of the axle and side of the engine and to keep the fumes out of the truck.
Will this work? Is this a bad idea? I really like the filter and sump deal that Bjorn did but I think that might be a little advanced for me.
Will this work? Is this a bad idea? I really like the filter and sump deal that Bjorn did but I think that might be a little advanced for me.