What's on your bench?

[Definitive Dave]

Pic of exhaust flange after USC.
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Note pitting

Is that mating surface usually perfectly smooth?
would little bits of flaking carbon exiting the muffler past the gasket cause that pitting?

 

[exSW]

I moved a bunch of bales also in case we get a lot of rain on Wednesday.

Yeah,I don't like to cut things up if I don't have to. Plus when both your tractors have D282's when it gets really cold,weeeellll...

 

[exSW]

Is that mating surface usually perfectly smooth?
would little bits of flaking carbon exiting the muffler past the gasket cause that pitting?

Dunno. But a 262 doesn't use a gasket. It uses a metal spacer that's shaped like a gasket.

 

[Keith Gandy]

Nice 460 Myself and member Laslab finished. Its for sale

 

[Definitive Dave]

Dunno. But a 262 doesn't use a gasket. It uses a metal spacer that's shaped like a gasket.

now I am curious-er
is it flat or embossed with a ridge like the MS200T gasket?
In the Stihl literature (propaganda) they require replacing the embossed flat metal gasket any time the muffler is removed as the metal loses the spring tension that seals it when initially installed.
That was a huge pita on the MS200T in particular back before the aftermarket gaskets when the OEM was nearly $12 apiece.
I wa told the spacer for the 034/036 muffler conversion required two gaskets one for each side of the spacer?

always wondered how much it mattered to be airtight before the muffler considering how much we open up mufflers in the name of performance anyway

 

[PA Dan]

Pic of exhaust flange after USC.
View attachment 8405
Note pitting

Pitting or just poor casting?

 

[Definitive Dave]

Pitting or just poor casting?

yeah, it does look rougher than the parts of the fins that we see, where roughness is less of a problem I would think

 

[czar800]

Yeah,I don't like to cut things up if I don't have to. Plus when both your tractors have D282's when it gets really cold,weeeellll...

Had A few D282s they make your thumb numd holding the glow plugs.

 

[mdavlee]

It was ran loose for a while.

 

[exSW]

now I am curious-er
is it flat or embossed with a ridge like the MS200T gasket?

Flat. And the new ones are......flat.

 

[exSW]

Had A few D282s they make your thumb numd holding the glow plugs.

Both mine start well as long as everything is up to snuff. The 560 is a little tired but crank speed makes all the difference. I don't like moving bales with the 706 cause it's a narrow front and it's a bit squirrelly even on a dry summers day.

 

[Mastermind]

I have a MS441......and a 7900 that belongs to a friend.

 

[exSW]

It was ran loose for a while.

That's my new theory.

 

[PA Dan]

Dunno. But a 262 doesn't use a gasket. It uses a metal spacer that's shaped like a gasket.

OEM 262 muffler gasket/flange.

 

[czar800]

Both mine start well as long as everything is up to snuff. The 560 is a little tired but crank speed makes all the difference. I don't like moving bales with the 706 cause it's a narrow front and it's a bit squirrelly even on a dry summers day.

We had a 560,656 and a 706 the 560 had a turbo on it and it dynoed at 98hp it was a fun tractor! Most of the time there were only a few glow plugs working at a time on any given one.

 

[exSW]

I do believe that on the right side of that exhaust port that is through the plating.

 

[PA Dan]

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I do believe that on the right side of that exhaust port that is through the plating.

Keep sanding!

 

[bigbadbob]

Not on my bench but timing cover crank seal Mazda5 2.3L
I need to talk to the engineer!!
I wish this would go away!!!
BBB

 

[Definitive Dave]

it is crazy I cant find a spare inch of bench space anywhere as soon as I clean something off it is covered again, and I am not even doing any dang work


I am beginning to suspect that a few of you guys are sneaking around behind me sprinkling clutter-dust everywhere I go


again, completely up to code move along nothing to see here, mr inspector


I am 100% certain that I cleaned this table off and in the time it took me to pick up my phone, at least 5 items spontaneously appeared

 

[Keith Gandy]

Another John and I just finished. Stihl 044. Early KS 10mm cylinder in like new condition. Its for sale