I will soon be replacing the rear tire on my 06' Heritage Softail Classic and I plan on removing the rear wheel myself and then having the shop mount the new tire on the wheelfor me. My question is; I have the Screaming Eagle Slashcut slipon pipes on the bike and the upper pipe will be in the way when I drive the axle out. To remove the slipons is it just a matter of removing the bolts that are visible and then pulling the pipe off, or is there something else that I need to be concerned about also?
Are you joking?
Please do not try to do this yourself.
Find a friend, aquaintance, enemy, anyone that has experience to help you.
You were going to remove ( and reinstall ) the rear wheel yourself and don't even know how to remove a muffler?
This job is way over your head.
It involves raising your bike, removing things like mufflers, saddlebags and such. Then removing the axle and lowering the wheel, removing the belt, then you inspect everything. The belt, the pully, the brake pads, fluid, rotor, wheel bearings, and on and on.
Then getting everything back together, lined up, adjusted and torqued properly and on and on.
Watch it being done,pay someone to let you help them, study the Harley service manual and maybe the next time you can try to do it yourself.
Thank you for your reply. However, believe it or not, I have done a lot of work on various bikes that I have owned over the years including: removing wheels, adjusting valves and other basic stuff. I just need to know if the upper slipon unbolts and comes off as it would seem or is itconnected inside by some other means where it would make it difficult to remove without special tools.
Take the mounting bolt off, then loosen the clamp that is at the joint of the muffler and head pipe. Twist and pull until you work it free, sometimes a little WD40 or PB blast at the joint will help.
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I always find that liquid wrench is very help full in taking the mufflers off, but it sounds like you should find someone to help you with the tire removal,the tire can get heavy and its nice to have help holding every in place
I agree with the others, get help in mounting the wheel, I recently changed wheels, did the job myself, but I will admit, it would have been easier with a little help, especially in the remounting of the rear wheel...
Well thisjust proves the value of what I tell everybody.
When you buy a bike ( I also do this for cars ) also buy both the factory Service and Parts manuals.
If you had these at hand you could easily see in the parts manual what fasteners are used on the exhaust system as well as everything else involved.
Wow, what a panicked reply above! This is an easy job. I swapped the wheels on my bike, with this being my first HD, and the first time I'd taken a wheel off a bike (with cars, I'm more experienced- I built a '56 F100 in my garage). I do have the big service manual, and that helped a lot. Funny thing is, I helped a friend swap wheels on his Fatboy, and it was more difficult with the two of us! When I did the work, I used a floor jack to support the wheel, and juggled the spacers and caliper support while sliding the axle in.
One of the nice things about Harleys is much of the bike is 1930's technology, which makes them wonderfully simple to work on!
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