Folks,
I am getting around to cleaning up the D4D in terms of paint and fixing the more cosmetic things. When I bought the tractor it had a FLECO brush cab with a muffler that stuck above the limb risers. It did not take too many hours for me to learn I need to be more careful with limbs contacting the exhaust stack and bending the pipe.
So what did I do? I cut the exhaust stack down so that it did not stick up too high but know that being more aware would be a better approach. So now the question.
I'd like to put a new exhaust muffler/stack on and make it long enough to push the exhaust above my eye level. So, can i just put a straight exhaust pipe on (chrome would look good) or should I just use a new muffler that does just that (muffle the noise)? I guess I would get a bit more horsepower with a straight pipe but maybe there's a reason I need a real muffler such as back pressure??

Any thoughts would be appreciated!!

Go with the straight pipe and just wear hearing protection. Most of them came without mufflers in the first place.

Hi Jim,
I always wear a hard hat with ear protection even though I'm under the brush cab. Those limbs find there way inside and having the hard hat and ear protection has saved my cranium a few times already.
Anybody no where to find a nice chrome pipe?

If you still want to muffle most the noise without loosing performance you can install a straight through muffler, not one with the baffles in it.

Steve at this site is good.
www.crumequip.com/
He does alot of John Deeres
Clay

Hi Clay,

Thanks for the information. I'll give him a call and see what he has to say.