exhaust color?

[bubba]

i was wondering if any of you can tell me what color the exhaust pipe and muffler is , it's the style that runs under the belly, and it's on a 1955, and also was the grille's white or red on the 55's?

[Garvin Gatewood]

The grill is red. They did not change it to white until sometime in '56. I don't know what color the exhaust should be but I would just paint it heat treated aluminum.

[Bigdog]

The typical color for the underslung exhaust is "surface rust" or "oxidize black."

[Mike Schmudlach]

The exhaust pipe was painted with the tractor, the muffler was put after the paint booth. The paint would burn off of the manifold and exhaust pipe after a bit of use. I fyou look at original tractors the manifold is still painted on the intake and the paint is burnedd off on the exhaust side.
Mike