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Smokestacks for mudding?
Any thoughts? I was thinking up near the cab inside the bed.
 
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Personally I think they look stupid, but that's just me. I have never had a problem with them below the body, well I smashed the tips, but I just redirected them out to where it would be really hard to smash them.
 
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Haha. Alabama in me wants them soo bad... I was thinking some straight tips running atleast 3~4ft high.
 
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put a 4bt cummins in there and you have earned the right for stacks.
 
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I had stacks on my 69 F100. I loved them. What motor do you have?
 
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if it doesn't blow black don't do it
 
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how can you put smokestacks on a gas truck. Stupid IMO
 
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put a 4bt cummins in there and you have earned the right for stacks.
lol i need this conversion, and i would try and push 1000 ft-lbs out of it. ha ha sick!!!!!
 
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I know it's not a diesel peeps. And it'd go on a stock ranger...but I'd basically run it like normal exhaust probably cept instead of horizontally they'd be vertical..(go figure lol)
 
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if it doesn't blow black don't do it
haha seriously my friend has a f450 superduty powerstroke and it was gay untill it blew black smoke lol
 
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Originally Posted by Dromlace
I know it's not a diesel peeps. And it'd go on a stock ranger...but I'd basically run it like normal exhaust probably cept instead of horizontally they'd be vertical..(go figure lol)
still would be stupid in my opinion
 
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Here was mine on gas truck.
Name: dsc_1470_std1.jpg Views: 742 Size: 70.7 KB
 
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put a 4bt cummins in there and you have earned the right for stacks.
 
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I had my gasser overfueling so much that it would smoke good when you really mash it.
 
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haha seriously my friend has a f450 superduty powerstroke and it was gay untill it blew black smoke lol
exactly!!!!!! whats the point if stuff doesn't come out of em hehe
 
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Read my quote!!! at the bottom
 
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Dump a couple bags of glitter in each stack and stand back.. Crank 'er up and you got yourself some proper stack blowing! :-D
 
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Why not dump oil into them?
 
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Wasn't the Dodge truck a gas engine with stacks from the factory? I forget the name. Little red express?
 
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Originally Posted by Hanks Rangers
if it doesn't blow black don't do it
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OR unless you have an old stepside (factory stacks)

 
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Wasn't the Dodge truck a gas engine with stacks from the factory? I forget the name. Little red express?
Yep, '78 and '79 Lil Red Express, See above.
 
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cool. i got the name right.
 
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Ya, I have seen one of those.
 
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I wonder what a mint condition LiL Red Express truck is worth today? (30 years old)
 
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http://www.v70xc.com/pics/2003_parisdakar/bild/004.jpg

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