Quote Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe View Post
I've been having the random thoughts going through my head about my exhaust issues on the 40 and I'm half tempted to take the easy way out for now. Put a muffler in between the frame and front fender and exit just under the fender like a race car. Yeah, it might be loud, but it would be quicker and help get it on the road. But then I think I should just quit thinking.
Yeah, I woke up yesterday thinking, "Why didn't you just load the chassis on the trailer, and take it to the shop and have them bend pipes! But then I thought about the way the muffler shop does hangers, welds and cobbles things together and I decided I'm better off. I recall talking to a guy at a local hamburger joint about the roller chassis he had loaded and him saying he had a guy down south that was going to do the exhaust for him, but I don't know that guy!

I got a late start today, but drilled the mounting holes for a pair of hangers, then marked them and heated the rod to bend it to fit under the pipe, bolted it back in place and tacked the rod to the exhaust pipe, both sides of the rod. Did the other side the same....
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With that point anchored I decided that I needed to anchor the loops over the axles, and that's one of the 2" round cross members that has the brake line running across the front side. After too many stutter steps I picked up a piece of 1.5" square tube and a 1.75" hole saw and cut a chunk out of the tube, leaving the bottom whole. Cutting it at the bottom of the arc gave me two pieces to fit the cross member to make a flat bolting surface tangent to the bottom of the cross member.
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I cut off the top on the band saw, making a C channel, and as I was making the cut on the second one the blade snapped. Arrrrgh! So I finished that one with a cutoff wheel in the angle grinder.
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The tabs will extend back from the cross member, right below the floor of the trunk, and the radiused gussets will stiffen them up.
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Stopped for the day and cleaned up for a run to Harbor Freight to pick up some blades for the saw. That little deep throat band saw, mounted on a stand has been a joy to use, along with the Northern Tool Cold Cut Off saw. I don't know how I did without them!