Exhaust Pipe Keeps Diesel Soot Out Of Garage

Exhaust Pipe Keeps Diesel Soot Out Of Garage PICKUPS Accessories 33-5-25 Jeff Binion has driven diesel pickups for about 10 years. A couple of years ago the Newnan, Georgia, man went to paint his garage and was surprised at how much black diesel soot was on the walls and doors. "I had to spend a lot of time wiping off the soot with a cleaning solution before I could do any painting. It was a difficult job. That's when I decided to do something about it." He bought a 10-ft. length of 6-in. dia., flexible plastic pipe at a hardware store and attached a rubber sewer connector to one end that slides over the exhaust muffler on his Dodge diesel. The back end of the pipe extends beyond the garage door, so whenever he starts up the pickup the smoke goes outside. Binion keeps the pipe on the garage floor so that it's between the pickup's wheels as he drives in. A bungee cord is attached to the middle part of the pipe. Before he starts up the pickup to leave the garage, he slides the pipe over the pickup muffler, then hooks up the bungee cord to the receiver hitch to support the pipe. As he backs up, the pipe slides along the floor. Once he's on the driveway, he disconnects the pipe from the muffler and puts it back on the garage floor. "You always get a lot of smoke when you start up a diesel pickup. This idea keeps it out of the garage," says Binion. "If I hadn't come up with this idea I'd have to park the pickup outside." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jeff Binion, 1569 Smoky Road, Newnan, Georgia 30263 (ph 770 251-1573; jcbinion@charter.net).

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