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I CAN'T get my exhaust gaskets out. I removed my exhaust for the first time and I can't see how to remove the exhaust gaskets (if that's what they are). Dose anyone have a picture of the exhaust port on the XS with the gasket removed? I can take a pic tomorrow and post it up; looks like a gasket on the inside edge... kind of a double flare but when I examine it against the wall of the port there seems to be no seam or, in other words, it's continuous like it's just a lip.
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You should be able to take a thin screwdriver in there and pry the old gasket out. Yeah, sometimes they stick. And yes... they are of a double-flair looking design... like a thin section of collapsible tube.
Of course, you'll run across bikes where the owner put on pipes without using a gasket... sometimes it's hard to tell, the port being all sooty and such.
Take a wide tipped screwdriver... put the point flat against the port and start scraping. If you see shiney aluminum... then that means there's no gasket there."Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not a mechanic!' ('Bones' McCoy) -
Unless that's the shiney aluminum from the gasket? lolIf you see shiney aluminum... then that means there's no gasket there.
The gaskets on these will generally squeeze in a little narrower than the exhaust ports exit. If you feel a slight lip there, there's a gasket. I sharpened a nail into a screwdriver look, then bent the end to a 90 degree... sort of like a modified jewelers/dental pick. I could grab the gasket from behind and pull it out.
TodTry your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.
You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!
Current bikes:
'06 Suzuki DR650
*'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
'82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
'82 XJ1100 Parts bike
'81 XS1100 Special
'81 YZ250
'80 XS850 Special
'80 XR100
*Crashed/Totalled, still ownComment
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Originally posted by trbig View Postlol
I sharpened a nail into a screwdriver look, then bent the end to a 90 degree... sort of like a modified jewelers/dental pick.
Tod
Only an Okie!!
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I have a gasket pick & I used it to try & pry out the gasket... it was easily bent but did not come free.Comment
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I tried to bend an old screwdriver first.. then another one.. and they both snapped before getting bent all the way.... as opposed to you who tends to snap just AFTER getting bent. So.. a 16 penny nail worked just fine!Only an Okie!!
Momma always says, "Cheap azz is as cheap azz does!"
You should see what I can do with duct tape and bailing wire!
TodTry your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.
You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!
Current bikes:
'06 Suzuki DR650
*'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
'82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
'82 XJ1100 Parts bike
'81 XS1100 Special
'81 YZ250
'80 XS850 Special
'80 XR100
*Crashed/Totalled, still ownComment
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This is a family show
Easy now Tod, this is family friendly entertainment. I don't even want to think about what you had in mind.
Life is what happens while your planning everything else!
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
81 XS1100 Special - Humpty Dumpty
80 XS1100 Special - Project Resurrection
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93 GSX600F
80 XS1100 Special - Ruby
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81 CB750 C
80 CB750 C
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