Anybody with stacks go through a automatic car wash???
06-25-2007, 10:46 PM
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Anybody with stacks go through a automatic car wash???
Sometimes when I don't have time to give the truck a good bucket wash I take it through the automatic car wash...But I wondered if anybody has done it with stacks???
would leaving the engine running stop water from getting down the stack??
or would water run down in the stack and coat my truck with black soot soon as I pulled out???
Please share any info or thoughts on this you might have
would leaving the engine running stop water from getting down the stack??
or would water run down in the stack and coat my truck with black soot soon as I pulled out???
Please share any info or thoughts on this you might have
06-25-2007, 11:06 PM
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just put something over the stacks when you wash it......i imagien it will coat your truck with blackness! i used to put water in my stacks on my little red express truck at the ag shop when i was in school and idle it out to the parking lot and mash the go pedal and shoot water out all over the place....its really fun! lol
06-25-2007, 11:25 PM
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my son runs his stacks through the wash, first time it made a huge mess all over the truck when he left . now he tells the people at the wash he is going to keep it reved up to keep the water out. first time he did it he didnt tell them ,it freaked out the car was people(strait pipe stacks in a tunnel)
06-25-2007, 11:55 PM
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06-26-2007, 12:03 AM
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just put something over the stacks when you wash it......i imagien it will coat your truck with blackness! i used to put water in my stacks on my little red express truck at the ag shop when i was in school and idle it out to the parking lot and mash the go pedal and shoot water out all over the place....its really fun! lol
jump back out and grab the bucket...........it might be easier to give it a hand wash
my son runs his stacks through the wash, first time it made a huge mess all over the truck when he left . now he tells the people at the wash he is going to keep it reved up to keep the water out. first time he did it he didnt tell them ,it freaked out the car was people(strait pipe stacks in a tunnel)
06-26-2007, 01:05 AM
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number one reason why I havent put them in. I run mine thru the carwash and I think it would be a pain in the rear to cap them off, shut it off and then do all the other stuff.
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I run mine thru from time to time and I just leave it at a idle. No mess! But that will soon change! Soon as I install my 6" lift! Hell, I barely fit now!
06-26-2007, 09:22 AM
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Ive got a 1/4" hole in the bottom of mine and when it rains I get a nice black dot the size of a softball under the hole. I go through the car was once in a while but it dont get it very clean. That black stuff on the tailgate needs the brush.
06-26-2007, 02:52 PM
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Ya know I was thinking of a way to have a flap inside the stack, where you couldn't see it......something like a 5" pipe coming up then 7" around it...that way it would look like a 7" stack but down towards the bed it's only 5"...make sense?