small sparks from exhaust

the baler · Nov 18, 2016

Yes just as the header says. Last nite returning to the farm near dark I swear I noticed a few small sparks or embers coming from my exhaust stack on several occasions.3 cylinder duets motor in a same explorer. Never seen this. Anyone have an explanation. She still had plenty of power and ran fine
Thanks

jon f mn · Nov 18, 2016

Just carbon coming out, perfectly normal.

rustyfarmall · Nov 18, 2016

Perfectly normal. Happens in the daylight also, but you can't see it.

rusty6 · Nov 18, 2016

Normal for my old Super 90 Perkins diesel. Noticed the occasional spark from the exhaust while driving after dark.

jeremy in NE · Nov 18, 2016

Classmate of mine had a John Deere 4000 that started grass fires hauling silage. Took them a few
years to figure it out.

D beatty · Nov 18, 2016

I have a Cockshutt PD 40 Golden Eagle and at night pull 4-16s she will through fire a foot in the air off muffler at night.

JimS · Nov 18, 2016

There are other things in the exhaust that are flammable too. Smoke is flammable. There is a cool youtube demonstrating this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nSz2sHwVtk

jeffcat · Nov 18, 2016

Yes just a bit of carbon sparkles. You should see what a real steam
locomotive can throw! No wonder they were always watching for prarie
fires.

Smalltowner · Nov 18, 2016

I worked on a ranch back in the sixties using a 1962 Fordson Major diesel with a grinder mixer....we ground baled barley straw as a filler with milo etc. for a small cattle feedlot. Straw was outdoor open stack, 2500 bales...I would pull up next to stack to feed hay into the grinder. Evidently a spark from exhaust got in the dry straw hay and burned nearly all of it during the night. Boss was not happy but nobody on the ranch smoked so it had to be an exhaust spark into the super dry straw hay.
I had a 1952 Ford car with flathead V-8, very worn out, and it would literally blow out a fireworks show when it warmed up...my buddies thought something was on fire as we tore down a country road at night. I don't think I ever started a fire but who knows.

504 · Nov 18, 2016

I think most of it is rust flaking off the muffler. IMO

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