Thought I'd share my little bit of engineering I did yesterday.
I have a set of Dunstall/Comando replica type mufflers on my 78 on a set of XS Performance pipes. Originally, I had it mounted to the passenger foot peg bracket, but only one hole from the foot peg reached the slider mount on the muffler. Last year I had one come loose. I just bolted it up again. This season, I really want it to have a better mount. For one thing the bolts that go into the slider mount on the muffler where a bit loose fitting. So I went down to the local hardware store with my muffler and found bigger bolts. The head didn't even fit in the slider opening, so I ground down two oposite sides of four bolts on my bench grinder so they just barley fit in. I took some bar stock, drilled two holes for the two in the foot peg mount and one more for the muffler slider. So I have two in the muffler mount slider, and two on the peg mount. Did a little shaping to make it look good and painted them silver.
It's super solid now! Also, the spacers for going from a 1 1/2 pipe to 1 3/4 muffler that came with the mufflers were those multiple bands. I got proper one piece spaces from MikesXS and clamped them down with some heavy duty Harley claps. Plus, I polished the chrome with some Blue-Job. Pipes look real good, the mounting is super solid, and no leaks.
I have a set of Dunstall/Comando replica type mufflers on my 78 on a set of XS Performance pipes. Originally, I had it mounted to the passenger foot peg bracket, but only one hole from the foot peg reached the slider mount on the muffler. Last year I had one come loose. I just bolted it up again. This season, I really want it to have a better mount. For one thing the bolts that go into the slider mount on the muffler where a bit loose fitting. So I went down to the local hardware store with my muffler and found bigger bolts. The head didn't even fit in the slider opening, so I ground down two oposite sides of four bolts on my bench grinder so they just barley fit in. I took some bar stock, drilled two holes for the two in the foot peg mount and one more for the muffler slider. So I have two in the muffler mount slider, and two on the peg mount. Did a little shaping to make it look good and painted them silver.
It's super solid now! Also, the spacers for going from a 1 1/2 pipe to 1 3/4 muffler that came with the mufflers were those multiple bands. I got proper one piece spaces from MikesXS and clamped them down with some heavy duty Harley claps. Plus, I polished the chrome with some Blue-Job. Pipes look real good, the mounting is super solid, and no leaks.
