Someone tell me if doing away with the dust ejector would be of any detriment to the machine ? Muffler mount for ejector was rotted out and filters had noticeable soot in them. Thinking of doing away with it. Only downfall I can see is more air filter maintenence. Suspect it would be better than back feeding exhaust gas and soot into motor
Should be no harm in removing it, we used to remove them from the 836G landfill compactors we rebuilt. The filters have soot in them because the tube in the muffler is probably rusted out and no longer is the correct length to create a vacuum on the air filter housing. Instead, it’s pushing soot to the air filters. If you do operate in dusty conditions, it would be worth it to replace the muffler and get the dust ejector functioning properly again, IMO.
As above it all depends on how dusty are the conditions that you normally work in.
Years ago my employer at the time wouldn't pay for a muffler let alone fix something that wouldn't prevent the machine from running. I pulled all that stuff off and got several of those turbine type pre cleaners and never looked back.
Turbine type precleaners are what we put on the trash machines. Cat dust ejector systems work quite well when maintained, not to mention a rusted out muffler can cost you much more in damages than the muffler costs to replace.
The machine has a mounted tile plow. Will prob not see alot of hours in a year. I am going to plug the tube running to the air cleaner and leave it on the machine in case someone wants it in the future and straight pipe it. Be easier looking around a 6 in pipe than that big honkin muffler
I've welded dozens of mufflers back together. Can't get to that suction pipe up the muffler. The other thing that happens is the mufflers would plug with soot on those old dogs and make some back pressure on the pipe forcing exhaust back into the air cleaner.
leave it off , pulling a plow you wont see enough dust in 3 years to worry about the filter