15-CWT, 2K1, WIRE 5 Body Details

[David Dunlop]

Oh, She is looking SWEET, Rich!!!

From what I have seen of these bodies, they were all equipped with the same exhaust plumbing in the floor of the Gen Box. A fairly large diameter pipe through the floor to absorb the pressure of two generators running at the same time, with a Y-Fitting at the top end. If I recall correctly, one branch of the Y should point straight up and will take the exhaust feed for the upper, portable Chorehorse. The second branch of the Y will angle outward towards the lower compartment and will take the exhaust for either the second Chorehorse, or Onan. It's all pretty much standard plumbing stuff and adapters or plugs would have been used to connect generators as required.

Underneath the body was a 90 degree elbow and an extension pipe feeding a sausage shaped muffler about 2 to 3 inches in diameter and about 10 inches long. It pointed about 10 degrees aft of perpendicular to the side of the vehicle with the end of the pipe about 2 inches back from the bottom edge of the side of the truck. There may be a bit of a fiddle factor involved with the muffler placement as one has to deal with mud flap and jerry can racks back there. All that equipment had been removed from the bodies I ever examined, but I have seen the identical muffler setup on a couple of Machinery bodies, if that helps at all.

Cheers,


David