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Dgbuell
| | Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 11:53 pm: | 
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I have a 2004 XB12s with a drummer exhaust, I just bought the bike not to long ago and I absolutly love it (People given me the WTF is that face is the best)but I keep breaking front muffler straps, the 3rd one went tonight! I don't think I'm tightening it too much and I'm buying them from Buell. Any suggestions to prevent this and why in the hell is it doing this? I ride pretty hard (vibration maybe?), I'm losing hair over this please help! |
Petebueller
| | Posted on Friday, February 20, 2009 - 06:32 am: |
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Does it fit easily into the mounts both front and rear. It should fit in without the straps pulling it up.
You can get a bit of tolerance between mufflers and sometimes you need to loosen off the headers at the ports a bit (both front nuts, bottom rear nut), loosen the header clamp on the mufflers, rock them a bit to get the muffler sitting in place, and then tighten everything up.
That may fix it. |
Al_lighton
| | Posted on Friday, February 20, 2009 - 09:42 am: |
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What Peter said. The biggest issue is the front clamp that clamps the muffler to the header. That one needs to be tightened last, AFTER the muffler is well seated up against the front shoe.
That front clamp should really only be used once. You can get away with a 2nd time usage if you CAREFULLY line up the kink in it with the spot where it breaks over the edge of that front shoe.
If you've driven any kind of mileage with the front clamp broken, you would be strongly advised to replace your header studs BEFORE they break off in your head. If you've driven far without that front support, the studs have been fatigued and will likely fail sooner than later.
Al |
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