>discovering some of the wonderful habits of our Series trucks. The newest
>is the hot footwell. The cause is obvious - that toasty exhaust pipe hiding
>behind a thin aluminium sheet. Has anyone tried insulating the pipe or the
>transmission tunnel? I'd prefer to put the insulation on the pipe or close
>to it instead of inside the truck. I might even have some old header wrap
>around somewhere. Suggestions, comments, dire warnings?
When I first got The Green Rover, she need a klot of work just to get her
going and one of the early itms was replacing a bad steering box. Well I
didn't get around to replacing the rear wing splash shield and I have
never had a hot foot well problem. I think the greatly increased airflow
at the down pipe carries most of the heat away and helps kool the foot
well. The down side is that I spend a lot more time cleaning dirt off
the pedel boxes and maybe I get more water dripping down the pedals than
those with thee splash shields in place.
My exhaust pipe runs directly inder my left underseat fuel tank. I wrap
the pipe for the lenth it is under my fuel tank plus a little. I have
had no ill effects from wraping just a short part of the system.
So I think you can get away with just wraping the exhause down pipe.
Take care,
TeriAnn
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