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[HogBreath]

cruise control...does it work with the new engine?

Cruise Control does work still, but I haven't changed the throttle body. There's some talk going around that maybe it needs a bigger TB. I've got an email to Jim's asking their opinion. My dealer says the stock TB is big enough.

[miker]

Cruise Control does work still, but I haven't changed the throttle body. There's some talk going around that maybe it needs a bigger TB. I've got an email to Jim's asking their opinion. My dealer says the stock TB is big enough.

   gtfoh.......but whadda I know I ain't a dealer..

[sadunbar]

Cruise Control does work still, but I haven't changed the throttle body. There's some talk going around that maybe it needs a bigger TB. I've got an email to Jim's asking their opinion. My dealer says the stock TB is big enough.

The cruise control works on my 62mm HPI throttle body...

[HogBreath]

Welp...the D&D exhaust were just about to fall off so I pulled up into the welding shop. NO..I didn't mig weld them on. We slid them back into place easily and re-tightened. I took it for a ride around a country block and pulled back into the shop and tightened the clamp even more. If it doesn't hold now, it's not because it's not tight. I tightened it to within 1/8 turn of stripping it out. I can't believe it's such a small bolt in that clamp. It looked smaller than 1/4". I'm not sure of the size, but it took a 10mm socket. I'm think the V&H pipes had a 3/8" bolt. I guess it could have been a 5/16".

I can hear when it's slipped back. It makes a different noise.

[Chief]

Welp...the D&D exhaust were just about to fall off so I pulled up into the welding shop. NO..I didn't mig weld them on. We slid them back into place easily and re-tightened. I took it for a ride around a country block and pulled back into the shop and tightened the clamp even more. If it doesn't hold now, it's not because it's not tight. I tightened it to within 1/8 turn of stripping it out. I can't believe it's such a small bolt in that clamp. It looked smaller than 1/4". I'm not sure of the size, but it took a 10mm socket. I'm think the V&H pipes had a 3/8" bolt. I guess it could have been a 5/16".

I can hear when it's slipped back. It makes a different noise.

Got any duct tape and bailing wire?

[HogBreath]

Got any duct tape and bailing wire?

YEA..and a tarp strap hooked in the back of the pipe, and the other end hooked over the passenger floorboard would be a nice touch of redneck engineering. Do they make heat resitant tarp straps?

[ultrafxr]

Welp...the D&D exhaust were just about to fall off so I pulled up into the welding shop. NO..I didn't mig weld them on. We slid them back into place easily and re-tightened. I took it for a ride around a country block and pulled back into the shop and tightened the clamp even more. If it doesn't hold now, it's not because it's not tight. I tightened it to within 1/8 turn of stripping it out. I can't believe it's such a small bolt in that clamp. It looked smaller than 1/4". I'm not sure of the size, but it took a 10mm socket. I'm think the V&H pipes had a 3/8" bolt. I guess it could have been a 5/16".

I can hear when it's slipped back. It makes a different noise.

Ken, D&D has another clamp that solved the problem for me.  The clamp you have with the 10mm bolt is a pos.  The other clamp, funny as it seems, is actually smaller - not quite as wide and the wall thickness is a little less - and it uses a 5mm hex head bolt.  May be that it is more flexible, don't know.  But it sure solved the problem of the muffler slipping off the header pipe.

Both clamps are made by Five Star Mfg, Crest Hill, IL.  The one you have is p/n 27 72MHDH.  The one you want is p/n 27 72M.  Give it a try.  Think it'll solve your problem.

Jerry

[Twolanerider]

I tightened it to within 1/8 turn of stripping it out.

That's about what it felt like to me when the mufflers finally stayed in place Ken.  Was just sure that one more even little grunt would strip or break a clamp.  After that they stayed in place though.  Keeping my fingers crossed.

The SEEG's muffler didn't move after doing that all the way back and forth to York.  It's been off once since then for the transmission replacement so it might need that last little tightening one more time.  But so far and so good.  The SERG hasn't moved in 1200-1500 miles of riding since it got hauled down within an inch of its life either.  Fingers crossed on that one too.

[HogBreath]

Ken, D&D has another clamp that solved the problem for me.  The clamp you have with the 10mm bolt is a pos.  The other clamp, funny as it seems, is actually smaller - not quite as wide and the wall thickness is a little less - and it uses a 5mm hex head bolt.  May be that it is more flexible, don't know.  But it sure solved the problem of the muffler slipping off the header pipe.

Both clamps are made by Five Star Mfg, Crest Hill, IL.  The one you have is p/n 27 72MHDH.  The one you want is p/n 27 72M.  Give it a try.  Think it'll solve your problem.

Jerry

So bigger is not necessarily better??

[Twolanerider]

So bigger is not necessarily better??

Ken, I decided (just now ! ) that it's not a clamping issue anyway.  It's just that our motors are making so damned much torque that no clamping or adhesive system is ever going to work.  We're so damned powerful we're just gonna blow anything right off the back of the bike eventually!

[Twolanerider]

(that's my story and I'm sticking to it)

[HogBreath]

That's what I thought too Don...I can twist the throttle and just watch the pipe try and slide off. I think if we got a clamp good enough to hold..or glue tough enough to hold it...It would lengthen the muffler elongating and distorting till it blew in half...YEA..that's it

[Twolanerider]

That's what I thought too Don...I can twist the throttle and just watch the pipe try and slide off. I think if we got a clamp good enough to hold..or glue tough enough to hold it...It would lengthen the muffler elongating and distorting till it blew in half...YEA..that's it

Damn right.  Eventually the muffler and pipe would stretch so far that we'd get ticketed for having a highway obstruction.  So a little slippage there to keep all that from happening is a safety factor.  Just part of having a fine running motor!

[ultrafxr]

Damn right.  Eventually the muffler and pipe would stretch so far that we'd get ticketed for having a highway obstruction.  So a little slippage there to keep all that from happening is a safety factor.  Just part of having a fine running motor!

You guys could do spin for the moco.   

[Fired00d]

You guys could do spin for the moco.   

Are you saying they full of.....

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d