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Not only check your exhaust but,make sure you have a good working carbon monoxide alarm with fresh batteries. Also detectors should be changed after a few years in use.
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noleakman
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Sometimes people get tired of hearing a generator all night and the old trick is pack a hand full of dirt in the tail pipe to quiet it down or cause it to stop Just a thought
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Gale Hawkins
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Running flex pipe to a hole in the ground will help with noise BUT anything in the tail pipe can lead to burning a valve or worse. Shops will often hold a rag over an exhaust pipe for a few seconds to better hear the source of a noise. On our MH they all point out the left side we we would have to slide sideways to plug either exhaust pipe but I know some point to the rear. I have done this with a small Ford tractor but you hear the difference and stop and clean it out in that case. Machinery is dangerous. Running machinery is very dangerous.
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mockturtle
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noleakman wrote:Sometimes people get tired of hearing a generator all night and the old trick is pack a hand full of dirt in the tail pipe to quiet it down or cause it to stop Just a thought 
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Deen
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noleakman wrote:Sometimes people get tired of hearing a generator all night and the old trick is pack a hand full of dirt in the tail pipe to quiet it down or cause it to stop Just a thought And there's the murder charge if proven.
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Just a thought.
From my somewhat limited knowledge of the internal combustion engine, wouldn't plugging the exhaust pipe of any engine cause the engine to quit running rather quickly after becoming plugged?
Having not been there, I certainly can't say for certain, but I would think there is someting more to this story.
Regardless, as mentioned previously, it is so very sad that such an exciting weekend ended so tragically.
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Gale Hawkins
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Ken if completely plugged because the pressure would not let out the exhaust.
In the real world the pressure can find the weak link(s) in an exhaust system and leak plus the restriction can "burn" the valves.
There is little we can to do to keep someone from doing this after we go to sleep. I think our CO and smoke alarm at Lowe's was only $36. The nice lady will awaken you and tell you if it is smoke or CO she is sniffing. After the blasting alarm and her say carbon monoxide waking up is not an issue the two times it happened to us but it was a wind direction issue and not a stopped up exhaust.
You can not always prevent someone from stopping up your exhaust pipe while you sleep but you can prevent them from gassing you to death for $36.
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Hobodandee
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I'm not sure where the idea came from that this death was the result of a clogged exhaust pipe but the story does not say that. The police suspect that the fumes came from the RV next to the victim's which was parked very close and was running the generator. Certainly a clogged generator exhaust pipe is a real problem but, when you're in close quarters, you better be aware of the RV beside you. It also reminds everyone of the importance of a working carbon monoxcide detector.
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shadoow
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skipnchar wrote:Not sure how parking close to another vehicle gets sod stuffed into the exhause pipe. Sounds like either a freak accident or a case of murder to me. How does one get sod in the exhaust pipe of a parked vehicle? Not impossible but unlikely at best.
where does it mention there was sod or some blockage in the exhaust? The story linked indicated officials felt the familys RV was NOT the source of the CO. Did i miss something?? Just trying to figure out why this thread started discussing sod in the exhaust.
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jzick
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Actually, the clogged genny exhaust was found after someone died at Grand Prix in 2000:
"Police were investigating how the carbon monoxide poisoning occurred.
"We do know that some of the appliances were used in the RV last night," Theobald said, adding that there were other RVs in the area that likely would have generated exhaust fumes.
It would not be the first time race fans have succumbed to carbon monoxide in mobile homes near the track.
Three Canadian men who drove here for the U.S. Grand Prix in September 2000 died of carbon monoxide poisoning near the Speedway.
Authorities determined the gas came from an auxiliary generator in the RV the men were in and that there were no batteries in the vehicle's carbon monoxide detector."
Above is from today's Indianapolis Star.
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