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Title: any good way to put the exhaust bolt??
Post by: jkstyle834 on April 18, 2004, 03:23:45 PM
i seem to never put them in hard enough... cause after i ride for about 10 mins... they just become so loose i can turn them out with my hand... how can i bolt them up really tite???? i do it tightest i could with alen ranch... but seems to never work... help please...
Title: any good way to put the exhaust bolt??
Post by: octane on April 18, 2004, 03:47:32 PM
Are you using those tiny allen wrenches? Not enough leverage. Get  wrenches with longer handles, slip a pipe on the end of them, or use  an allen ratchet socket.
Title: any good way to put the exhaust bolt??
Post by: ash999 on April 18, 2004, 04:08:13 PM
Thread Loctite may work?
Title: any good way to put the exhaust bolt??
Post by: werase643 on April 18, 2004, 06:22:48 PM
drill holes in the heads and safety wire them.....
works on race bikes :cheers:
I have never had one fall out that was wired
Title: any good way to put the exhaust bolt??
Post by: MarkusN on April 18, 2004, 11:35:59 PM
Careful with the pipe for leverage, though. You don't want to overtighten that puppy. (Thread's in the cylinder, after all.) "After tight comes off" is an old German shop proverb.

Safest route is to use a torque wrench and a bit of copper paste in the thread. Because the more common problem with those bolts is that they are corroded fast.