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2010 Road King Classic. I want to remove the baffles from the stock exhaust and took a look a look inside. This is what I saw. Is removing the baffle as easy as removing the Allen bolt and pulling it out? Do I need to remove the rear and front Allen bolts? Anything to look out for?
1. The answer is maybe - it may be frozen in there from carbon/rust/corrosion.
2. That is not an Allen Head Bolt, it is a Torx Head Bolt.
3. What you are looking at may be just the end cap supporting the baffle.
Yes, its generally THAT easy. Spray the living ***** out of it with PB blaster for a day or two and hit it with an impact gun. Please be advised that if it doesnt break free ASAP, pull the whole muffler and do it on a bench. It doesnt take much to strip that bolt when you are trying to go at it at a side stand angle, bent over and cursing your tools.
Now Im going to ask WHY? You will loose bottom end, off the line performance and the bike will be obnoxious loud. The baffles are there for a reason (not just sound compliance).
Pulling the baffles might be really tough. On my Rush slip ons the baffle packing was too densely stuffed and wrapped with layers of masking tape (it baked onto the inner surface of the muffler.) This caused me many hours of hard work with a slide hammer- see that cross bar? I broke them both off and had to drill the baffle end bell and use a hook on the slide hammer to work them out and on one had to beat the crap out of it for hours. The slide hammer is junk now.
Once you get one part way out you're committed. Good luck.
I may be wrong and yours may come right out. Mine sure as hell did not.
He may want to replace it with another baffle.
At any rate, I would not use baffle removal and "easy" in the same sentence. However, installing a new baffle might make removing the old one seem easy.
Yes the bolts hold in the baffle section, but with it removed, going to be straight piped in the end.
So trick is to remove the baffle stack, remove the center section and add in a larger center section to the bolt in ends, that you can still wrap the center section with fiberglass to have louder mufflers, but not straight piped beyond loud isntead.
to end up with something like this that can be fiberglass wrapped and re bolted back in.
Think this in the end to give is some tone, instead of just tinging raspy load of straight pipes isntead.
I concur! I tried to remove the baffles from my VH eliminator 400 series mufflers this summer and it literally took me hours! They were seized so bad. The right side end cap had the 3 screws that attach it to the baffle come off and were rattling around make it even more difficult. Good luck.
This is a typical baffle that can be repacked ... Commonly use in Rush and Big Louie mufflers ... I have Rush Mufflers and repacked them several times over the years ... Remove the muffler ... Remove the baffle retaining bolts ... A piece of wood on the inlet side and a hammer ... A few wacks and bingo ... Good Luck
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