Rush Baffles - pull hot or cold???

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Apr 9, 2008 | 04:47 PM

dchoran

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Rush Baffles - pull hot or cold???

My 2.5" baffles are going on 3 years old and I'm sure they are imbedded pretty good and they DON'T have that nice crossbar like the new ones do.

Hopefully I don't have to pull the mufflers to get them out.

Besides WD40 and PB Blaster, is it any easier doing this with the pipes hot/warm versus ice cold???

Going to change my setup to FuelMoto's modified baffles this weekend.

THANKS. Dave H.

Apr 11, 2008 | 05:31 PM

dchoran

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RE: Rush Baffles - pull hot or cold???

DUMB A$$ QUESTION I GUESS????

Apr 11, 2008 | 10:22 PM

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RE: Rush Baffles - pull hot or cold???

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ORIGINAL: dchoran

DUMB A$$ QUESTION I GUESS????

No, not at all. I just suspect that like me nobody knows. Will the baffles expand more than the surrounding muffler material when hot? Less? I can't say. I would attempt to remove the cold first, then warm up the bike if that fails. I doubt if WD40 would do much, as you can't get it anywhere near the entire length of the muffler. I think you'll end up removing the mufflers, but try the above suggestion first.

When I removed mine the bike had 12k miles on the old baffles and they came out fairly easily even without the crossbars. That's one year for me vs. three for you, but maybe they'll be cooperative. Here's my write-up on the install, which may help a little.

https://www.hdforums.com/m_2534631/tm.htm