I just finished making a complete transformation of my '03 FLSTF to a bagger, but I have an issue with my pipe choice. I have the samson true duals, but I went with the new 4" mufflers. Now the pipes are touching the extended bags I installed on the cyclevisions brackets.

Has anyone else ran the 4" mufflers on the extended hard bags with no clearance issues? I love the larger diameter and performance and sound was great, but it is clearly an issue if it touches my bags (melting!). Otherwise, I guess I have to switch to the smaller diameter mufflers.

 

Bike looks sick. Could you fab some sheet metal on the bottom of the bags

 

Sorry, can't help, but hope you can work it out, the bike is looking sweet!

 

looks good

 

After speaking with the folks at Samson, it doesn't appear that I can make the 4" mufflers work with my setup without compromising my saddlebag brackets, etc.
So I have decided to switch to a smaller diameter muffler.

If anyone is interested, I am listing the 4" high perfomance mufflers for sale in the classified section of the forum.