I just did a new exhaust and used the funny looking rings with tabs to bend and hold the exhaust nuts. Had to give them a try as I never have before, have always done the safety wire thing.
Crap........:x
No matter how you bend them, they just won't be snug enough to avoid musical accompaniment as you go up through the gears. Sounds like a bunch of Buddist Monks on Holy Day. The Jingle Jangle of the rings as they rattle around is just not my style, there's enough noise on the bike as it is, and no one needs another reason to worry that it might be getting ready to send a piston to the moon..strange noises just aren't conducive towards a relaxing assault on the bug population of our wonderful country roads.
New exhaust has a total different tone too , from the old one, somehow quieter, and I swear the horsepower has been reduced. But worst of all.... my wife couldn't hear me coming, five minutes before I got home last night like she always does, and she didn't even have time to run out and open the courtyard door and the door to the barn for me before I got there. If it wasn't Mother's Day....I'd surely be tempted to say something about it, but I will probably take the chicken way out and just put the old rusty exhaust back on. Better sound, better power, happier wife, and last but not least.......better door service.... :wink:
Shame though...the new one looks so....nice.