painted mufflers

[glennster]

i ordered a new muffler for my 42 m from the case ih dealer, and ordered a new muffler for my w9 . both mufflers came painted grey. what happened to the anodized aluminum coatings? they look like the mufflers from farm and fleet. no bling.

 

[rustred]

i have been buying mine from peavy mart and they look that way also. i hate to hear what case ih charges for them.

 

[Smarten_up]

Peavy Mart has good mufflers, low prices. Bought mine from them several years ago and still in good shape. By a flap cap too.

 

[DeltaRed]

The annodized coatings are a thing of the past.Too costly in this cost cutting world.

 

[used red MN]

403551R1 $90 US
CNHI M muffler

 

[redforlife]

I kinda doubt Case IH has their own source for letter series mufflers. Not like they did when they were in production.

I don't doubt you got one from there. But they just outsourced it from somewhere else. Just like as if you outsourced one yourself from an autoparts store, or online. If it was labeled and packaged as IH or Case IH, it was likely relabeled/repackaged by them.

You probably run into this on most parts for tractors that old, unless it's NOS (new old stock).

The last time I bought a clutch plate for an M at the dealership, the parts guy behind the counter outsourced it right there in front of me. He got it coming from someplace. But that someplace wasn't Case IH. I didn't care. I only went there because I knew he could reference it, and I'd end up with the right one for the right year (right serial number) I had. And not be the wrong one according serial number breaks. He could figure that out even if part not available from IH. I don't have that info. Not right in front of me like they do anyways.

 

[DR. EVIL]

I run a 2+ ft long piece of Food Grade 304 stainless steel tubing for straight pipes on my 1954 Super H I use to push snow 8 to 10 times per winter, at a low idle, 1000 to 1200 rpm in 1st gear. AND the same type & size tubing on my 1951 M. Same load, we're not picking corn, grinding cattle feed, or pulling 3-14's plowing, but the tubing turns blue or gold in slightly cooler spots, only maybe half of the pipe remains silver.
I did paint a genuine IH Muffler about mid-1960's with VHT high tempurature spray paint, one 16 Oz can did the muffler and it stayed a Matt finish white, but the rolled seams of the muffler had stretched the steel, exposed the steel to moisture and it rusted and in about 8 to 10 years the bottom inlet broke out of the muffler.
I'd buy one of Ken Updike's shiny polished 304 stainless steel OEM mufflers from Steiner Tractor if I was serious about using a muffler and having it last a long time.
All my tractor running now days is at low load and low RPM, no more hour after hour of full throttle heavy fieldwork like 50+ years ago

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

There used to be two major manufacturers of tractor mufflers, Stanley and Nelson. Used to be if you bought a muffler from the dealer you got a Nelson.

Years went by, fewer of these tractors got used regualrly, demand for mufflers went down. Pretty sure Nelson stopped making mufflers. Now the only game in town is Stanley.

Are there any stainless "restoration quality' mufflers left? They were the big thing and pretty new on the market around 2014. Someone had a big batch of them made and handed them out to anyone who wanted to sell them.