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01-18-2014, 04:49 AM
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baffle removal, fessing up.
Well I thought those baffles were going to be easy to slip out but nope not mine. Difficulty factor of about 11 outa10, sphincter factor about the same. So I ended up grawnching the internal outer baffle tubes. Bet I'm not alone on this one. And yes I was using a slide hammer but they just would not budge. I poured some wd40 in there and left them overnight. After about another hour next morning they gave up the fight. Looking in the exhaust after wasn't a pretty sight. My fix was to machine up a couple of flanged sleeves about 2" long out of steel billet material, made sure they were a nice tight hammer with a lump of wood fit. Also used some JB weld and I think they turned out pretty good. Just another option for those of you who arnt fessing up
 But you need a lathe. By the way I cut a 2" hole to get the baffles out cos a mate of mine did his also but with the smaller diameter hole. Thought his sounded a bit farty. Happy with mine tho.
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Last edited by muz; 01-18-2014 at 06:01 AM.
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01-18-2014, 06:12 AM
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Looks good. If you don't have a lathe valkyrie exhaust tips work great.
BMW looks like you could use a new tire.
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01-19-2014, 09:09 AM
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That tidies it up pretty nice.
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01-23-2014, 07:48 PM
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I wasn't going to say anything, I thought I had done something wrong, but I had the same problem, my solution was to bend the edge of the baffle in enough to get a pair of vise grips on the edge. Then I installed an eye bolt in the back wall of my shed, hooked a ratchet strap to the eye bolt and to the vise grips, tightened the strap up enough just to keep tension on the baffle while I wiggled and tap the thing till it finally came loose. I used some of that metal epoxy putty to smooth out the boogered edge, sanded down and painted.
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01-23-2014, 11:18 PM
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Yep mine was a prick of a thing to do. I think it was because the bike is a 06 model with real low miles. Baffles had plenty of time to rust up in there. Something to consider if you thinking about removing the baffles on an older model.
Last edited by muz; 01-23-2014 at 11:22 PM.
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