Hi Everyone,
This is my first post, hope I'm in the right place. First off I will give an explanation of what this will be used for. My company is going to be buying an offroad capable vehicle for survey agricultural land. We are attaching a GPS receiver to the vehicle so we can read topography, but only drive about 20mi and hour when we are offroad. We will be driving over soft, sandy ground, hard clay, and frozen. A lot of the time there will be trash (post harvest material) on the fields, and this is where our concern lies.

A man who is in a similar field had problems with fluff and trash getting caught in the skid plate by the CAT and it ignited. This put a pretty bad taste in his mouth about jeeps, and he has recommended that I look elsewhere, or modify the exhaust. I am still fairly set on a Jeep Wrangler, so he gave me a suggestion to make it work.

His suggestion was: Cut exhaust at cross over, get tractor exhaust from farm supply store, build a stack on pass. side of jeep, use hinge bolts in door to anchor. Cat convert, goes in line on the up run of the stack... don't forget your clicker cap!!

I work on a farm, and have the equipment/knowledge to make this happen, just wanted to see what suggestions you all had.

THanks!

 

You'd come out cheaper and more practical (for resale value) by looking at a skid plate for the underside of the jeep- assuming you drive forward through the refuse, of course.

Another option is to figure out a wrap on the exhaust and potentially put a skid plate around that.

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