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Kurosawa
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 09:33 am: |
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I just realized I have a big dent in my muffler right under the front. I got the bike this way, and when going off the curb to the parking lot this morning I realized it was there for good reason. Does this affect anything performance-wise? Or do I need to take the muffler off, see if I can beat the dent out from inside, then gingerly walk the bike off curbs in the future? |
Stealthxb
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 10:02 am: |
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I do a lot of things with my bike...none of which are done gingerly! |
Buellin_ri
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 10:04 am: |
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I got one too. I don't worry about it very much. |
Isham
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 10:10 am: |
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I have one also. Some idiot didnt lift the bike right. |
Spike
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 10:36 am: |
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Shouldn't hurt anything peformance-wise. Both my stock muffler and my drummer have the same dent, in my case it comes from setting down wheelies too hard, but it can also come from speed bumps/curbs. I've seen the exact same dent on many an XB, haven't seen it cause a problem yet. |
Paulson
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 11:40 am: |
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I have the same dent (self inflicted). It doesn't seem to affect my bike's performance. It may even be rare to find one without the dent. |
Joele
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 11:52 am: |
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One problem you may run in to is if you break an exhaust header stud and try to get it repaired under warranty - had a dealer insist that the dent on the bottom lead to the broken stud - even went on to say that Buell wouldn't warranty any exhaust tract related work if a dent was reported in the bottom of the exhaust. |
Bud
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 02:29 pm: |
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gg, the front end off the exhaust is hollow, the pipe runs though the hollow front box ( filled with damping packing ) till about the first ( front ) jacking point, from that point on the muffler really begins mine was dented aswell, and did some doktering with it
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Reepicheep
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 02:52 pm: |
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Thats not a dent, it's a skidplate |
Skyguy
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 05:30 pm: |
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Mine has dents.......... They came from a dip in the road in the middle of the night. |
Dmextreme
| Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 01:00 pm: |
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i have dents in mine as well.. but it is from doing to many wheelies coming down hard! I need to improve the stiffness of my front end.. I bottom out sometimes.. bike runnin strong.. havin lots of fun! |