The new Dime City Cycles muffler fit quite snugly onto the MAC header... to snugly, in fact. One of the necessary jobs was to remove the surface coating from the header (some sort of black, super-hard paint) to see if this would be enough to allow the muffler to slide one. First step is to remove the headers...
Like a lot of these rebuild/restore projects, parts need to be installed and removed several times during the build. I've lost count regarding the exhaust system!
We borrowed an angle grinder with an abrasive wire wheel to remove the header coating. Even with this tool, it took quite some time to get paint off. We will need to wait to see if this is sufficient to install the muffler... while this was going on, Cycleboyz were doing their usual tig-welding magic on the muffler. Being built in stainless, a muffler mount needed to be welded to the body of the muffler for us to fabricate a mount. As usual, their workmanship was stellar and they didn't charge us anything. Thanks yet again, guys!
There is still some work to do regarding the wiring system. Now that all the indicators work, headlight, tail light, etc.... we are getting some sort of short somewhere that is blowing fuses! Looks like we need to tear into the wiring harness to find the culprit. It will give us a chance to review the original schematic to search for faults.
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