Loghomeguy
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If anyone has a vertical exhaust pipe that doesn't have a flapper, do yourself a favor and put one on. I have a JD 850 and the exhaust just went and kinda started to turn to the right and was sawed off. It worked fine till I left it out during a good rain storm and it happened to be parked on a little bit of a slope. If you've never heard of "hyro-locked" it's not good. Bent a rod and cost me $1400 in parts. While I had it tore down I pretty much rebuilt everything. New pistons, sleeves, one new rod, had the head worked. Anyway I took a sawsall and cut the exhaust pipe of square and installed a flapper. A lesson learned the hard way. That was six years ago I think, still runs like a top.