Janice:
You do have a sense of humor and a thick skin.
Following up on Ski's thoughts, if you bolt up the mixer that you referenced above, it will probably not have enough height to flow downhill to the lift muffler.
Buy the one that I referenced for $155. Get your welder friend to cut off the round tube that goes to the "contraption" and weld a 2" SS coupling to it. Then add an elbow to turn up and another nipple to go up as high as you can in that engine compartment before you screw on the Yanmar mixer. Then route the outlet to your lift muffler with 2" hose.
You will need to support it so all of the weight doesn't hang off of the exhaust manifold. Get your welder to make up a strut out of 2" angle. Bolt the bottom to one of the starboard side transmission bolts and bolt the top end to a tab welded on the elbow.
Then insulate all of the exhaust manifold and the 2" pipe nipple and elbow up to the mixer. You can use the heat shield tape here- JEGS Performance Products 32030, JEGS Heat Shield Tape | JEGS Performance Products and wind it around each element.
The whole thing will cost $155 for the mixer, $50 for a couple of SS elbows and nipples, $20 for insulating tape and will take one cut and one weld.
Spend the money, do it right and you won't regret it.
David
You do have a sense of humor and a thick skin.
Following up on Ski's thoughts, if you bolt up the mixer that you referenced above, it will probably not have enough height to flow downhill to the lift muffler.
Buy the one that I referenced for $155. Get your welder friend to cut off the round tube that goes to the "contraption" and weld a 2" SS coupling to it. Then add an elbow to turn up and another nipple to go up as high as you can in that engine compartment before you screw on the Yanmar mixer. Then route the outlet to your lift muffler with 2" hose.
You will need to support it so all of the weight doesn't hang off of the exhaust manifold. Get your welder to make up a strut out of 2" angle. Bolt the bottom to one of the starboard side transmission bolts and bolt the top end to a tab welded on the elbow.
Then insulate all of the exhaust manifold and the 2" pipe nipple and elbow up to the mixer. You can use the heat shield tape here- JEGS Performance Products 32030, JEGS Heat Shield Tape | JEGS Performance Products and wind it around each element.
The whole thing will cost $155 for the mixer, $50 for a couple of SS elbows and nipples, $20 for insulating tape and will take one cut and one weld.
Spend the money, do it right and you won't regret it.
David