Baffled

Will baffles that are dirty mess with the performance of your bike? Will it muffle the sound of your pipes if the baffles are extremely dirty? I do not have fiberglass in mine so that is not in the mix. Thanks.

I suggest you contact Vance & Hines direct. My understanding is you should be able to inspect your baffles by pulling them out of the tube, should just be an Allen wrench job. V&H states that their slip-ons baffles are easily installed,TAPERED SLASH-CUT SLIP-ONS: Vance & Hines: Performance Exhaust Systems ,so they must also be easily uninstalled. Should be a quick check, just make sure you use loc-tite when put 'em back in.

Baffle damage is the last thing I'd expect to be a problem on my bike....now, baffle detachment and slamming into a tailgater is something I'm more familiar with!
:cheers:

:roflmao: Pretty cool way to ding a tailgater Red...Not as obvious as dropping ball bearings, marbles spark plugs or nuts

Only time I heard of mufflers changing their note and performance drop off is with fiberglass wrapped baffles,burning off and blowing out of the tail pipe....since yours don't have fiberglass,only thing I could think of is to check for looseness at the head pipe and muffler clamp....

What mufflers you using??

I am using the 4 inch slip ons. They are the Twin Slash Rounds Vance and Hines. I took the baffles out yesterday and yes, they looked good as in not burnt or anything like that. When I get a chance I will go over the exhaust nuts and make sure that those are tight. (I wasn't the last one to have the exhaust off)

Well, it wasn't on purpose - but it sure did take the sting out of losing my end cap/baffle!

Totally agree!

I figured that it would have to be pretty bad in order for that to happen. I pulled the baffles and they aren't bad at all. There is something that is going bat shiit that is for sure. Now comes the real "Process of Elimination" challenge. Lots of stuff not happening with my bike at the moment. :roflmao::gah:

Valve train is good. I hear nothing bad coming for the engine itself. The only noise that I hear is the sweet sound of gear drives. And my exhaust when it was sounding right.

I wanted to start doing my process of elimination of things starting with checking to see if I am wet sumping or not. Well in order to do that I have to have the bike warm so I could pull the plug. Along with all of this I wanted to do a compression test, I even bought a gauge for the occasion. I turned on the ignition, hit the start switch and lights out it went. :roflmao::gah::rant:. Now during the whole time, I had the tender on it, so there was a full charge. I took the seat off, tested the volts and I was at like 13.3 volts. So now I have nothing coming on when the ignition is on, so I let it sit for a while and I go back about 10 minutes later and I turn the ignition on for hoots and hollers, guess what, there is power again. I went to start it, if gives a short burst and dead again. Repeat. :roflmao::gah::rant:

I would if it would start.

It is clear what the problem is: gremlins!

Seriously, though, it sounds like something is shorting out. I had this on my King and it turned out that a connector had just enough dust in it. Once I disconnected, sprayed 'em contact cleaner, and reconnected my harness it cleared up like nothing ever was wrong. I hope it is that simple for ya.

Yeah I was talking to BaggerPaul and he thinks that this could be causing my underlined issue that I have been mainly concerned about in the first place. A bad ground someplace. Electricity and I do not get along so I brought it to my indy. He was going to check the motor mounts and other things. "Process of Elimination." I was going to install as et of new yoopers battery cables when the engine was apart but didn't. I got lazy. I also asked Derek to check my MAP sensor as that is really the only thing that I didn't replace when it was apart. Oh well, thank God for Suzi and WhipLash.