Install of Vance and Hines power duals
Stage IV
Joined: Oct 2016
Posts: 4
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From: Tennessee
My advice is don't put them on. V&H pipes are dangerous. The first full lock handle bar turn to the right and you'll come down on the heat shield instead of the floor board bracket causing the bike to want to slide out from under you. I'm a rodeo rider and it happened to me on the first full lock turn on the skill course. They came back off immediately. No more V&H for me. I no longer trust them to build a safe product!!!
Seasoned HDF Member
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 10,602
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From: Bellevue, NE
My advice is don't put them on. V&H pipes are dangerous. The first full lock handle bar turn to the right and you'll come down on the heat shield instead of the floor board bracket causing the bike to want to slide out from under you. I'm a rodeo rider and it happened to me on the first full lock turn on the skill course. They came back off immediately. No more V&H for me. I no longer trust them to build a safe product!!!
Stage IV
Joined: Oct 2016
Posts: 4
Likes: 1
From: Tennessee
Got the same thing going on Buddy... My advice is to take em off before you go down hard. I'm sooo disappointed with V&H.... Their selling a very dangerous product at a premium price with no 'heads up' of the design flaw in their product description!!!
Stellar HDF Member
Joined: Dec 2009
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From: Western Canada
Don't know why you guys have had so much trouble
with your setups. Have you lowered your bikes or something like that? I have the V&H Power Duals and regularly scrape the floorboards on corners and have never (and I mean never) has the cross-over pipe ever come close to scaping.
To the O.P.- If your bike suspension is stock then you won't have any issues. It's a relatively easy install. Just remember to use 'ant-seize' on the exhaust studs and use the torque wrench for all fasteners.
I kept the bike on the side stand and it made the whole right side easy to get at too. Took me 3 beers to install.
Could have been 5 beers, just can't be sure now.
To the O.P.- If your bike suspension is stock then you won't have any issues. It's a relatively easy install. Just remember to use 'ant-seize' on the exhaust studs and use the torque wrench for all fasteners.
I kept the bike on the side stand and it made the whole right side easy to get at too. Took me 3 beers to install.
Could have been 5 beers, just can't be sure now.
Seasoned HDF Member
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 10,602
Likes: 721
From: Bellevue, NE
with your setups. Have you lowered your bikes or something like that? I have the V&H Power Duals and regularly scrape the floorboards on corners and have never (and I mean never) has the cross-over pipe ever come close to scaping.
To the O.P.- If your bike suspension is stock then you won't have any issues. It's a relatively easy install. Just remember to use 'ant-seize' on the exhaust studs and use the torque wrench for all fasteners.
I kept the bike on the side stand and it made the whole right side easy to get at too. Took me 3 beers to install. Could have been 5 beers, just can't be sure now.
To the O.P.- If your bike suspension is stock then you won't have any issues. It's a relatively easy install. Just remember to use 'ant-seize' on the exhaust studs and use the torque wrench for all fasteners.
I kept the bike on the side stand and it made the whole right side easy to get at too. Took me 3 beers to install.
Could have been 5 beers, just can't be sure now.
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Joined: Jul 2015
Posts: 8,538
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From: SF Bay area
When I did them on my '15 Limited Low I fought them to the point I swore they were welded wrong or something. Then in an instant they just went right on. It's like the planets aligned.
I do remember the instructions not being the best, that I could have done better without them.
One tip... use zip ties to hold the flanges up to the ends of the pipes, then cut them off with diagonal cutters when done, otherwise you'll need 3 hands.
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I do remember the instructions not being the best, that I could have done better without them.
One tip... use zip ties to hold the flanges up to the ends of the pipes, then cut them off with diagonal cutters when done, otherwise you'll need 3 hands.
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Joined: Jun 2008
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I'm no wrench, and I did it myself on my 2010 UC. Actually, my sixteen year old son did all the wrenching and I did the reading and supervising (beer drinking). Most time consuming part was removal of the HD exhaust gaskets - seems as if they are pressed in at the factory (my opinion at least). The other time consuming part was the installing the heat shields - nothing difficult, but getting all those little screws and worm rings lined up was enough to crack open a new beer. Overall difficult rating of 2 on a ten scale. It took about two hours to complete.
A good jack / left is paramount.
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