TheSamba.com :: View topic - how to avoid exhaust soot stains on bumper

Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:20 pm

Just hacked on a quietpack.
Any suggestions to avoid the black soot stains on the white bumper?

Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:26 pm

Fine tune your engine and especially your carb, and avoid mashing the throttle.

I know of no way to avoid it otherwise.

Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:27 pm

Reweld the exhaust flange so it hangs down lower.

Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:31 pm

weld a downward facing tip

in the scouts we were tought to apply a small amount of dawn dish soap to the botom of our pots and pans that we used on a fire

this would prevent the soot from sticking it may work for this also

Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:53 pm

I added a nice chrome tip that extends just past the bumper..

Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:22 pm

Dont "hack" it on fit it so the tailpipe extents past the bumper :roll:

Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:54 am

Olymale wrote: I added a nice chrome tip that extends just past the bumper..

YWHS! But also get your jetting done properly for less of a chance to stain the bumper! 8)

Mon Aug 18, 2008 10:24 pm

QP mufflers for a bus are made slightly different from a bug muffler...less of an angle from flange to mufffler (so the muffler isn't tucked under the bus so far) and they have a longer exit pipe. Extending the exit pipe is your best bet...about 1" past the bumper.

Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:58 am

So does a stock bus muffler stick out past the bumper from the factory?

Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:47 am

d_ville wrote: So does a stock bus muffler stick out past the bumper from the factory?
the muffler doesn't but the tail pipe sure does!

Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:07 am

squareback_fiend wrote: in the scouts we were tought to apply a small amount of dawn dish soap to the botom of our pots and pans that we used on a fire

this would prevent the soot from sticking it may work for this also

I put backpacking soap on my backpacking pan and it now has permanent burned soap fused to the pan. I should'a used Dawn.

Coleman fuel works good to wipe off bumper soot.

Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:55 am

go to the trailbash ans hit some bumps that bend the quite pack past the bumper. that what happend to mine. didn't even have to do any work!! it just happend.