I'm probably going to wind up putting different mufflers on my Super Glide, so I have a question about getting the old muffs off. On my Sportster, because the crossover nipple is part of the muffler neck, you have to loosen the header bolts at the head so that you can lift the muffler up off the crossover port and then wiggle it off the header pipe.

I looked closely at the Dyna exhaust system today when I was at the dealer and the crossover pipe is welded to the header pipes. This should mean that taking the mufflers off is a simple process of loosening the clamps and unbolting the mufflers and then wiggling them off. Is that right? You don't have to loosen the header pipes at the heads like on the Sporty, correct?

 

Ya no need to loosen the headers. Took about 10 minutes to put my slip-ons on.

 

+2 on that, and i did a sporty like you said and did it the same way, it was a little harder but i didnt touch the head bolts!

 

If you put on aftermarket slip-on mufflers, no need to touch the header pipe bolts. The stock mufflers just pull straight off, with a little wiggling that is. Do it right and reuse the clamps.

 

It's just a whole lot easier on the Sporty if you loosen the headers at the heads.

 

Just loosen the muffler clamps and the bolts that hold the mufflers to the support brackets. Should take you 10 minutes.

 

Fire it up without mufflers, so you get the fill of how straight pipes would sound.

 

No thanks. I don't like a real loud exhaust. I may just keep the stock mufflers if I like the tone and can actually hear the exhaust while cruising down the road. That was my main beef with the stock mufflers on the Sporty: You could not hear ANY exhaust noise when you were riding. I like a little Harley rumble as background music when I'm riding.

 

Once you get up to 40 or 50 MPH, you will lose the sound of the stock mufflers. If you want to hear the purr, you may want something like V&H Straightshots and Quiet Baffles.

 

Only music you will get from stock will be from your ipod