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Hi. I'm new to the site. I've been reading it for quite some time however and want to thank everyone for the amount of help I've gotten from it. I've gone from someone who was scared to change my oil to being able to rip out the carbs on a moments notice. So thanks.
So here's some background. I was driving from Taos to Alburquerque the other day and my baffle blew out of my bike across traffic around 5pm. There were a few too many cars going a bit too fast to entice me to pull over and run across the highway to pick the baffle up. So now I have a set of Jardine 4-2's that have one baffle and one hollow pipe. It's real loud--and kind of smelly. And I'm kind of dismayed at the propsect of paying $341.99 for a new set of pipes.
However, I was looking at other parts of the site today, and I saw the tip on adapting Harley Davidson mufflers for XS11's. (http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=102)
I looked at E-bay and realized that I might be able to fix them for less than $50.
This is exciting, but here are my questions: I know that I won't be able to follow the specfiications exactly because the tip is for stock, and I'll still use the Jardine 4-2 headpipes, but is it basically that I lob off the pipes on my bike, shove the new ends on with about 1 1/2 inches of overlapping metal and put a bolt through them? Is that it?
I'm a bit nervous about that holding it. Would something like that be able to break the bolt easily and send more pieces onto the highway? What are your thoughts?
So here's some background. I was driving from Taos to Alburquerque the other day and my baffle blew out of my bike across traffic around 5pm. There were a few too many cars going a bit too fast to entice me to pull over and run across the highway to pick the baffle up. So now I have a set of Jardine 4-2's that have one baffle and one hollow pipe. It's real loud--and kind of smelly. And I'm kind of dismayed at the propsect of paying $341.99 for a new set of pipes.
However, I was looking at other parts of the site today, and I saw the tip on adapting Harley Davidson mufflers for XS11's. (http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=102)
I looked at E-bay and realized that I might be able to fix them for less than $50.
This is exciting, but here are my questions: I know that I won't be able to follow the specfiications exactly because the tip is for stock, and I'll still use the Jardine 4-2 headpipes, but is it basically that I lob off the pipes on my bike, shove the new ends on with about 1 1/2 inches of overlapping metal and put a bolt through them? Is that it?
I'm a bit nervous about that holding it. Would something like that be able to break the bolt easily and send more pieces onto the highway? What are your thoughts?
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