hooker troublemakers vibration help
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hooker troublemakers vibration help
hey all my hooker troublemaker pipe saga continues on my 06 1200. got em on, ran good a few days, got out on the highway, tuned, run good, but got the rear pipe just vibrating wildly. at first i thought it was a loose heat shield, undid all the head nuts and bolts at my bracket, repositioned, and retightened everything, and still major noise and major vibration. anyone else with these have this happen or any advice? im going to take it apart a third time and retighten and position, just looking to see if anyone had this experience and what they did. thank you again
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RE: hooker troublemakers vibration help
A riding buddy of mine has troublemakers and has had no problem with vibration. I helped him put them on but do not remember how they mount. Are you possibly missing a mounting bracket that would hold the pipe in place?
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RE: hooker troublemakers vibration help
the pipe vibrates a lot more visually, but its getting progressively worse now. it just sounds like tin shaking, i checked all the clamps on the shields, completely took the whole exhaust off, back to step 1 and checked everything. put it all back on all over again, same exact problem. im not sure, wondering if i just got a bad set or something or like that, thinking about doing an exchange for another set. It was an ebay sale, but they were new and Im sure the company will do an exchange.
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From: Hugoton, Kansas
RE: hooker troublemakers vibration help
well just sent an email to the seller's store on ebay, Dynoshop Performance Outlet. It was really wierd, these sounded great right after I put them on with no wierd vibration, one run out on the highway and this vibration thing happened, these pipes havent even seen 10 miles.
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RE: hooker troublemakers vibration help
will do Utz. Seems like this junk always happens on a weekend and i gotta wait til monday to find things out.
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RE: hooker troublemakers vibration help
Yo man, sorry to hear bout your troubles. Sure does sound like some type of internal issue. I got your email and will wait to hear from you..... I guess my neighbor will thank you for giving him a couple more days of peace....
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RE: hooker troublemakers vibration help
I agree with the internal issue, sounds internal, especially if you basically reinstalled everything. My cheapo pipes vibrate a bit, especially the rear. My uncle said my bike was waggin its tail riding down 95. Everything is tight and all bracketry is in place, guess its the rigid mount motor causing it for me, but yours is rubber mounted. Does the motor vibrate excessively? Check your motor mounts for bolt tightness just to be sure, but it sounds to me like the pipe has an internal issue.
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RE: hooker troublemakers vibration help
yeah its an internal thing im pretty sure. we had some local riders possibly going out today, thanks bill for the reply. if the seller will just do an exchange, the slipons are still yours of course.
mech, yah my mounts are the rubber mounted, the front pipe seemed okay, but the back pipe is definitely wagging around no matter how tight i get that thing on, and the whole thing sounds like someone shaking sheet metal in my face going down the highway. im sure its just a bad set or maybe a weld loose on the baffles inside, nothing noticeable on the outside.
but what do we care about our neighbors bill hahahah! they need a good alarm clock maybe, might as well be us eh?
thanks for the replies guys, makes a crappy situation a lot easier to deal with when you can come here to vent or get help.
mech, yah my mounts are the rubber mounted, the front pipe seemed okay, but the back pipe is definitely wagging around no matter how tight i get that thing on, and the whole thing sounds like someone shaking sheet metal in my face going down the highway. im sure its just a bad set or maybe a weld loose on the baffles inside, nothing noticeable on the outside.
but what do we care about our neighbors bill hahahah! they need a good alarm clock maybe, might as well be us eh?
thanks for the replies guys, makes a crappy situation a lot easier to deal with when you can come here to vent or get help.