Having STACKS is COOL... UNTIL!!!!

[TORQUE THIS]

Well, Friday night, spent 4 hours waxing and polishing the boat. Saturday it rained all day, never left the house. Sunday was cloudy, but no rain in the forecast. Bout 12 noon, I hop up in the boat, take off all the covers, clean the windshield and do my usual pre-launch routine. Well, the battery in the boat is DEAD... slap on the charger and all is good to go. Hop in the truck, back up to the trailer, hitch up and pull out of the driveway. As I get going down the road I give it a little push of the go pedal and...



BLACK, OILY, WET, SOOT



All over the boat!!! I mean everywhere. From bow to stern.





What are you guys doing to prevent the nasty oily, sooty mess after it rains??? Am I just going to have to live with it???

 

[Hummin Cummins]

Dont feel bad, had the same thing happen to me with my camper. That was last summer and I still cant get the stuff off.

Do you have slant cut or turned out stacks? I had the turned out ones, I made the mistake of washing my truck while it was hooked to the camper. Rain never got in, but the hose water did.

Some guys drill a small hole in the elbows at the bottom to let water drain out.

 

[Grey Wolf]

Why not put an old coffee can (s) over the stack (s) with the threat of rain. It works in this part of the country

 

[98rammer]

get two plastic coffee can lids or from whatever can and attach a wieght and string to them. then throw the weights into the stacks so it sucks the lid up tight to around the holes.



i hope you get that stuff off. castrol super clean is great stuff, but i don't know how it would be on the boat surface.



Tom

 

[Evan A. Beck]

Simple Green will take the soot off. Works great, I use it all the time on the rear quarter of my '01.

 

[DieselB59]

www.stackhat.com

 

[Deezul1]

Castrol Super Clean is awsome stuff but will remove skin and the shine on anything painted

 

[WadePatton]

Ya'll artta see Mark's (Got Smoke?) truck. It WAS white. Now-with the stacks and the rain- it's getting dingy gray from the top down.



He has some coffee cans. But I love the weighted coffee lid solution. Of course chrome flappers would be snazzy.

 

[Got Smoke?]

Originally posted by WadePatton

Ya'll artta see Mark's (Got Smoke?) truck. It WAS white. Now-with the stacks and the rain- it's getting dingy gray from the top down.



He has some coffee cans. But I love the weighted coffee lid solution. Of course chrome flappers would be snazzy.

Oh hush wade!



You haven't seen my new turnouts I put on last Thursday yet! They stick up about 6" or so above the cab! Probably gonna take a couple of inches out, but I love the decrease in resonance in the cab. Oo.



Truck is once again white cause I washed it today (quick do-it-urself, not a good hand wash like I should have), and will hopefully stay that way cause I have the turnouts kicked out 45*



PM me with further dyno day updates.

 

[98rammer]

Originally posted by Deezul1

Castrol Super Clean is awsome stuff but will remove skin and the shine on anything painted

yeah unfortunately, i wear rubber gloves when using the product. it works better than simple green imho, just not so safe on your skin.

 

[illflem]

Originally posted by Deezul1

Castrol Super Clean is awsome stuff but will remove skin and the shine on anything painted

I agree except not quite anything painted. I use it all the time on my Rams, Caterpillars and Massy tractors without a problem, but use it on a John Deere and the rinse water comes off green.

Maybe I have tough skin but I perfer Super Clean over hand cleaner for washing greasy hands, never a problem. Experiment first.

 

[Hummin Cummins]

Got Smoke

You should be fine with the turnouts. I never had soot on my truck with them turned back at an angle. I did once plaster the table in the shop along with the box of donuts with soot once though



I had a reg. cab. Man they were loud in the cab. Forget about opening the sliding rear window, unless the wife was with me.

 

[SOOT]

Ya'll should have heard mine when I had flat tops with rain caps and they stoped even with the top of the cab flippin loud, on the highway with the windows up you still could not talk over it. I have since added 18" tips angled out at about 45* made it alot quiter in the cab.

 

[Got Smoke?]

Re: Got Smoke

Originally posted by Hummin Cummins

You should be fine with the turnouts. I never had soot on my truck with them turned back at an angle. I did once plaster the table in the shop along with the box of donuts with soot once though



I had a reg. cab. Man they were loud in the cab. Forget about opening the sliding rear window, unless the wife was with me.

Made the mistake of not turning the truck around today when I noticed a rain storm headed directly for us from the backside of my truck. Didn't think much of it till I left for home... ... BAD black streaks all down the side of my truck



I'm pulling in that parkspot from now on, but then again it was one helluva storm today!

 

[csevers]

Not all stacks have that problem

I just installed a set of stacks from Rob Thomas at T I M. They were tested with the rain Fri night and sunday and they did not "slobber" all over with the wet soot. They look very nice I am glad I finally did stacks



Craig

 

[TORQUE THIS]

Hummin Cummins

I never had soot on my truck with them turned back at an angle.

I have the turn-outs on the truck. Had them at 15, 30 and 45 degrees... still lots of soot...



I guess it is time for 2 coffee cans...





BTW... I tried to pop popcorn, didn't work

 

[Hummin Cummins]

Maybe parkng in a garage is why I didnt get soot. I never noticed any, well, not on my truck but the ones beside me. LOL I'm stackless now and I miss them badly.

 

[Spooled-up]

Man, I'd like to see a truck with those flappers at the top. It'd sound cool sitting at a light with the flappers "tink - tink - tink - tinking" away.

 

[bmoeller]

Originally posted by DMKelley

Man, I'd like to see a truck with those flappers at the top. It'd sound cool sitting at a light with the flappers "tink - tink - tink - tinking" away.

Don't recall who it was, but there are pics. in the readers rigs of a truck with rain caps.

 

[SOOT]

Originally posted by DMKelley

Man, I'd like to see a truck with those flappers at the top. It'd sound cool sitting at a light with the flappers "tink - tink - tink - tinking" away.

Ya unless you had to listen to them all the time. I took them off for that reason, when I turned the idle down they got really annoying after a while It looked cool when I would get on it and they would stand straight up