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Old May 24, 2012 | 05:34 PM
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Just put some new baffles in my Van hines pipes, but it is smoking a little towards the top of the exhaust by the engine. is this normal just buying of oil or have i interested them wrong? i feel it is pretty easy to put them in sine they have screws that fit in the already pre made holes but who knows.
 
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Just put some new baffles in my Van hines pipes, but it is smoking a little towards the top of the exhaust by the engine. is this normal just buying of oil or have i interested them wrong? i feel it is pretty easy to put them in sine they have screws that fit in the already pre made holes but who knows.
Did you remove the headers? If you did you need to put in new gaskets or they can leak.
 
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I did not remove the headers, should I?
 
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I did not remove the headers, should I?
If you're getting a leak from your headers then it might not be a bad idea to replace the gaskets. But wait to see it it clears up after running it a little bit. Also, if there is a leak, the bike would probably run like crap. Is it the front or rear cylinder? Not that it probably matters. I'm not expert but I'm just thinking of what might be the simplest solution. You know, Occam's razor. lol
 
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