How to install a smokestack?

The first step is two bore a hole in the bed that is directly strait from the exhaust pipe. Then you need to remove the original exhaust pipes, leaving a little pipe from the muffler. The third step is to weld the flex pipe to the cut end of the pipe that comes from the muffler, and clamp the flex pipe to the pipe coming from the muffler with a stack clamp, for extra durability.The second step is to weld and clamp a 90 degree elbow pipe. Then you weld and clamp a strait pipe to the elbow pipe and screw a bracket to the truck bed and clamp the the bracket to the strait pipe at the bottom and top, this is for a single stack. Lastly you weld the stack tip on top of the strait pipe. The stack goes from the original exhaust diameter to the stack diameter. If you are doing dual stacks there would be a pipe that looks like two 90 degree elbow pipes where fused together. Of course the pipe would be clamped and welded. Then you would need to clamp and weld a strait pipe to the pipe that looks like two elbow pipes were fused together. Also you would screw a bracket into the truck bed, and clamp the bracket to the strait pipe. Then on both sides elbow pipes would be welded and then at the top of the pipe it would clamped to the bracket you just screwed into the truck bed. Lastly weld on the stack tips. Like I said before the stack has the original exhaust diameter at the bottom and expands to the stack diameter. Sometimes you can pay extra extra to put in a internal stack muffler to reduce noise levels. One interesting fact about smokestacks is they slightly increase fuel economy, because the heat exits faster than with the original exhaust pipe which allows to save fuel since it is not having to be cooled down as much.


Single Stack\



Dual Stacks


Quad stacks for people wanting to go the extra mile, same concept as installing dual stacks, but there is a 90 degree elbow the has two openings


Hood stack, another way of adding stacks

what is gear ratio?

Gear ratio is really just a speed ratio in a vehicle. The speed ratio is the ratio of angular velocity to the input gear and the angular velocity of the output gear in vehicles. You can calculate gear ratio by the number of teeth on the gears in a gear train. Torque ratio in the gear train is known as the mechanical advantage, which is determined by the gear ratio.


Gears in a automotive transmission

What is a vibration damper in a diesel engine?

A vibration damper is a device in a diesel engine. that is used to suppress wind included vibrations on taut cables such as a power line. This dumbbell looking device consists of two masses at the ends of a short length cable or flexible rod which is clamped at its middle to the main cable. The damper device is designed to dissipate the energy of oscillations in the main cable to an acceptable level.

What is a fuel separator?

It is basically a fuel bowl that separates water and fuel. Since water is heavier than fuel, the water will just separate from the fuel. The separated fuel will sit at the bottom of the filter. This system works until the filter becomes full of water. When the filter fills all the way up with water, water will travel with the fuel into the carburetor or the injection system.

Air compressor

A air compressor power tools like pneumatic guns, impact wrenches, sanders, drills, staplers, and spray guns, etc. The air is made in the compressor by having a fan run when the tools need more air. The air then gets compressed when it goes through the tube that connects to the tool, because the diameter of the the tube is smaller than the diameter of the air compressor tank. A important thing to remember with air compressors is not to put bottled gas in the compressor, because it will make the compressor blow up.

Places to go

Hershey Park - Hershey, PA off of I-76W

Indian Echo Taverns - Hammelstown, PA off of I-76W

Saratoga Springs - Saratoga, NY off of I-90W

Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom - Allentown, PA off of  I-81W

What is a transmission?

A transmission is basically just a gearbox that uses multiple gear trains and gears to supply the vehicle with speed and torque from a rotating power source to another device in the engine. There are two kinds of transmissions, a manual one and a automatic transmission. In a manual you have to shift the gears yourself, while in a automatic the gears shift for you.


Transmission