Bark to mellow

[Beorn of Ga]

I have Rinehart 4" slipon mufflers that drove me crazy with how loud they sounded. They had a real loud, intense bark. I wrapped the baffles with 3/8" woodstove gasket rope (fastened to the baffle on the start and finnish of the wrap with stainless steel wire), around 20' / baffle. I now have the best sounding mufflers in 50 years of riding. From harsh barking to a nice firm but mellow rolling thunder sound. If you do this, shop around for the gasket rope. I found pricing from $1.50 / ft to $0.90 / ft (My local ACE hardware).

 

[Dante221]

I have Rinehart 4" slipon mufflers that drove me crazy with how loud they sounded. They had a real loud, intense bark. I wrapped the baffles with 3/8" woodstove gasket rope (fastened to the baffle on the start and finnish of the wrap with stainless steel wire), around 20' / baffle. I now have the best sounding mufflers in 50 years of riding. From harsh barking to a nice firm but mellow rolling thunder sound. If you do this, shop around for the gasket rope. I found pricing from $1.50 / ft to $0.90 / ft (My local ACE hardware).

Hello Beorn :wave4:
Was hoping you might have some pictures of this mod. I have the 3 1/2 inch
Rinehart slip-ons on order & am hoping they will not be too loud pared with
a ceramic coated Jackpot header from Fuel Moto. Were the baffles hard to remove ?? Thanks for your advice

Regards
Dante

 

[Beorn of Ga]

I didn't take any photos. It's simple to do. You remove the baffle by removing 3 bolts in the exhaust tip & pull out the baffle. The baffle has flanges on both ends that provide room for the gasket rope wrap on the outside of the baffle. I got the stainless steel wire that you use to fasten the start and finish of the gasket rope wrap at my local ACE hardware store.

 

[TrikerJoe]

I have 4" Rineharts too and would like to mellow out the sound a bit. Did you notice any loss in performance?

 

[scooty]

If you go to ebay you can buy muffler packing that is for this application, it is not expensive and works great. It comes in blanket form.

 

[Phu Cat]

Dante, If your baffles are hard to get out after removing the bolts, just fire up the engine and blip the throttle a couple of times. Best to do this in the grass so nothin gets scratched up.

Phu Cat

 

[pigbike]

I wrapped my Rineharts with a few wraps of fiberglass cloth, and then the fiberglass blanket material. I really don't think it helped, as they are still loud.

Maybe the rope trick works better.

My baffles were really in there tight. What I did was stick a 1" wood dowel about 3 feet long up into the baffle, and then moved it up and down, and side to side, to loosen them up. I also shot some PB Blaster up the tube to the forward flange.

Mine were still stuck in there so I made a set of pullers from two 1/4 inch threaded rods that I bought at Home Depot. They have 12" precut rod for 98 cents. Just bend a hook at one end and bend it on a 45 at the other end. Someone posted something like this already so I just copied (Thanks for the idea). I then drilled two holes in the rear end of the baffle, and put the hooked ends in the holes. One person pulling, and one wiggling the dowel, and they came out.

As far as installing them, I coated both ends with Permatex "Never Seize", so they will come out next time. This is good stuff and works up to 1600 degrees.

 

[pigbike]

Beorn, I see you used 20 feet of rope per baffle. Was that for one wrap around the baffle.or did you wrap more then one layer?

Did you use 40 feet to do both baffles?

 

[adaptolife]

Go back to stock exhaust if you want quiet, and sell the Reinharts to someone that appreciates them. I ride just to hear the notes my Hooker exhaust and mufflers make.