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Title: Help!
Post by: demeter on May 15, 2015, 02:21:28 AM
An exhaust nut sheared off and the rattling made the whole exhaust fall off. I'm about a mile from home.. Is it safe to ride home without the exhaust attached?
Title: Re: Help!
Post by: beermak on May 15, 2015, 02:25:24 AM
Happened to me in the past and by the time i was home the exhaust was trashed...


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Title: Re: Help!
Post by: demeter on May 15, 2015, 02:28:24 AM
The exhaust is totally off. I'm holding it. I pulled over before I trashed it.

Just waiting for someone to give me the ok to ride home or to wait for someone to pick me up.
Title: Re: Help!
Post by: demeter on May 15, 2015, 03:00:09 AM
Well I went for it and made it home fine. Woo! :)
Title: Re: Help!
Post by: demeter on May 15, 2015, 04:02:17 AM
Err!! Just went to put it back on and saw I lost the gasket and both manifold nuts.  :'(
Title: Re: Help!
Post by: Stig / Major Tom on May 15, 2015, 07:19:42 PM
Quote from: demeter on May 15, 2015, 04:02:17 AM
Err!! Just went to put it back on and saw I lost the gasket and both manifold nuts.  :'(
Not too expensive for the parts, if the pipe is OK?
But the wait might be a problem for the parts.
Stig
Title: Re: Help!
Post by: BettinANDlosing on May 15, 2015, 08:02:31 PM
Quote from: Stig on May 15, 2015, 07:19:42 PM
Not too expensive for the parts, if the pipe is OK?
But the wait might be a problem for the parts.
Stig

I can get you the bolts, and gasket within a few days.
Title: Re: Help!
Post by: blue on May 16, 2015, 12:31:05 AM
I have seen worse.ride it home.
Title: Re: Help!
Post by: blue on May 16, 2015, 12:32:34 AM
Just go slow and easy.
Title: Re: Help!
Post by: Chris0381 on May 16, 2015, 04:08:36 AM
In the mean time he can use regular bolts with some anti-seize ????
Title: Re: Help!
Post by: demeter on May 16, 2015, 04:39:13 AM
Quote from: Stig on May 15, 2015, 07:19:42 PM
Not too expensive for the parts, if the pipe is OK?
But the wait might be a problem for the parts.
Stig

Pipes fine thankfully.

Quote from: BettinANDlosing on May 15, 2015, 08:02:31 PM
I can get you the bolts, and gasket within a few days.

I'll message you. I need them.

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Exhaust is back on and I'm riding! :)

I went to my local scooter shop but they didn't have the right size gasket. They did give me regular nuts and washers that fit. I popped the old gasket off my stock exhaust and am using that for now.

Quick question. The old stock exhaust only used a metal ring gasket. The Tecnigas came with like a paper type gasket. That's what I lost. Was I supposed to use both on the new exhaust? The metal ring and the paper one together. Or one or the other? I originally only installed it with the paper one.. The manifold has a nice little recess for the metal ring.
Title: Re: Help!
Post by: BettinANDlosing on May 16, 2015, 04:48:49 AM
Cool, good news. The ring type i like better, but are sorta one time use because they squish to seal. With the technigas i would use only the squish type. Just have one or two spares for when you take the pipe off. I have all the OEM stuff in stock.