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  • Retroman
    Retroman
    8 hours ago
    PS I have stock OEM mufflers for EVERYTHING , except of course 1999 Sportsters.

    Typical that.....
  • Hilly
    Hilly
    7 hours ago
    Quoting speedzter on 05 Dec 2025 01:43 AM

    If you need any advice on Brake fluid, I think we have a member here that has some experience 😁

    😁 all good, 5 out and 5 in, needs pads 🤦 how did I not notice before, back ones are near on the metal, no wonder they felt wooden!, fronts inside maybe a mil and a half, everything becomes clearer when the bike is on the hoist, ordered them from EasyR. So no rush to do oils today, will drag my sorry old arse into the big smoke to check out the night market, my Ex and daughter have a stall, daughter has mentioned it so best I have a gander 😁
  • Hilly
    Hilly
    7 hours ago
    Quoting Retroman on 05 Dec 2025 02:40 AM

    PS I have stock OEM mufflers for EVERYTHING , except of course 1999 Sportsters.


    Typical that.....

    Indeed lol, they have the stock part numbers on them but they are straight through so I dunno what gives there.
  • Retroman
    Retroman
    2 hours ago
    That's the old "Texas-tune" that you could do with 90's mufflers, that had no cat converters from memory.

    Just punch out the core plug half way up the muffler, bit of a one way trip tho' haha...

    Even the Copper FXR's in Perth were so modded !
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    26 minutes ago
    I used a 1" holesaw bit welded on a length of 5/8" rod, worked well on mine. A mate was making non compliant stainless steel mufflers in the 90's, for core he was taking 1 1/8" heavy gauge stainless tube, cutting opposing pairs of slots into the tube every 2 inches, rolling the tube by 90° between pairs of cuts, then bashing in the edge of the slots with a rounded end punch.
    The cores quietened things up surprisingly well, even better when they had a lot of stainless steel scourers stuffed tightly around the baffle tube before it was pressed home into the muffler shell and welded at both ends. 
  • Hilly
    Hilly
    10 minutes ago
    I did end up dropping the oils late this arvo, mag plug from the primary/trans just had paste on it, oil wasn't too bad.
    The engine oil filter was put on by a gorilla I'm guessing, had a fair old bow in the breaker bar, oil was black, I reckon this thing has been running really rich.
    Cut the oil filter open, chopped about a third of the pleating out, folded it up and gave it a gentle squeeze in the vise to get most of the oil out, stretched it out in the sun for a gander, couple of small shiny bits, nothing to worry about.
    No pics today, nothing to see really, will pull the battery box and oil tank out and do these hoses in the next few days.
    The bloody Slim decided to start leaking as well, wouldn't believe it but the oil drain hose on it is split at the tank, thought it was the drain bung at first, ordered a new one, two bikes, can't ride either, no fair I say.
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