Ferret Exhaust System
 

Greetings All,

We've been doing some major hull work on our Ferret which meant that we had to remove the complete power-pack and gut the vehicle. In the process we found lots of "little things" that required attention, including the exhaust system (a new muffler in the near future being one of them).

In the meanteim, when reassembling everthing, the question came up regarding the two small "floating?" pipes that connect the two elbows from the exhaust manifold to the combined elbow that is bolted to the hull opening for the exhaust (on the inside of the engine compartment). Is there any packing at either end of these two pipes or do they just "float" loosely in the elbows? If there is packing - what is it and where is it available?

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,

Chris Preston,
Victoria, BC,
Canada

Hi Chris,
There is no packing on those tubes. The reason for them is that the engine is not rigidly mounted, so there has to be slight movement. When all parts are new, elbows and tubes it is OK, but the tubes scale and flake on the swaged ends due to the heat and also the elbows suffer wear from tubes jigging around. I worked in army workshops in UK for 22 years and would have worked on Ferrets regularly in that time span and later on privately owned ones. I have built up the flaked ends on tubes with bronze welding and finished to fit the elbows snugly, not tight, so this is an easy option. That is how they were in service, always a bit of black soot around that area.

regards, Richard

Ferret Exhausts
 

Hi Richard,

Many Thanks for the information. I was wondering about that as I didn't see anything in the Parts Manuel regarding packing material.

Do you know of any sources for a reasonably priced muffler?

Cheers,

Chris

Ferret Muffler
 

Hi Chris. Perhaps this link will help with regards to a Ferret muffler. Had used this website to purchase some rubber inner tactra covers.

http://www.ferret-fv701.co.uk/for_sale.htm

Cheers, Terry