installing my Scorpion slip-on
06-07-2010, 02:10 PM
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installing my Scorpion slip-on
Hi guys,
I'm putting on a pair of Carbon Fiber Scorpion exhaust I picked up off craiglist (for $100), the guy who sold it to me gave me a tube of Permatex RTV silicone Hi temp and said I should use it as a seal for the pipes...is that really necessary? Should I just install them and give it a good clamping and if it leaks THEN i try the RTV gasket seal?
Thanks for your input!
I'm putting on a pair of Carbon Fiber Scorpion exhaust I picked up off craiglist (for $100), the guy who sold it to me gave me a tube of Permatex RTV silicone Hi temp and said I should use it as a seal for the pipes...is that really necessary? Should I just install them and give it a good clamping and if it leaks THEN i try the RTV gasket seal?
Thanks for your input!
06-07-2010, 02:46 PM
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There should be a gasket with your OEM exhaust, if your new system needs it, reuse it unless it is toast (with no goop) if it is toast, pick up a new one:
http://www.ronayers.com/Search/N/687...-750/Source/HO
I don't recall if I reused mine or removed them, but either way I didn't need to buy new ones or use any goop when I installed my MIGs.
http://www.ronayers.com/Search/N/687...-750/Source/HO
I don't recall if I reused mine or removed them, but either way I didn't need to buy new ones or use any goop when I installed my MIGs.
06-08-2010, 03:12 AM
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I have Scorpion hi-level race can's (no baffles straight through) on my bike, they are stainless steel not carbon. I bought mine about 8yrs ago, so the link pipes my be made different now, but without using a joint sealer mine will pop and bang on the overrun like mad. It's OK for at first, a bit of a novelty even, but after a while I got fed up with it. My Scorpions are not designed to be used with the original joint gasket.
06-08-2010, 10:15 AM
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I have Scorpion hi-level race can's (no baffles straight through) on my bike, they are stainless steel not carbon. I bought mine about 8yrs ago, so the link pipes my be made different now, but without using a joint sealer mine will pop and bang on the overrun like mad. It's OK for at first, a bit of a novelty even, but after a while I got fed up with it. My Scorpions are not designed to be used with the original joint gasket.
06-08-2010, 01:16 PM
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shieeeeeeeeeeeet while installing the slip ons i stripped the allen bolt that holds the lower pipes to the foot peg...now there's just a round hole in the allen and the hex nut behind is stripped also.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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06-11-2010, 10:14 AM
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i ended up slamming another allen key one size up and it made enough grip to wrench it free...the scorpion exhaust is on yippeeeee
but right away i noticed smoke coming from one of the joints...not sure if it's exhaust leak or the WD-40 burning off...the smoke only seems to come once the pipes get hot
and what a sound! bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
but right away i noticed smoke coming from one of the joints...not sure if it's exhaust leak or the WD-40 burning off...the smoke only seems to come once the pipes get hot
and what a sound! bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
06-12-2010, 08:25 AM
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Congrats. The smoke is probably **** burning off. Take a strip of toilet paper and move it around the joint. You'll see the paper move before you'll feel it on your hand if there's a leak
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