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Oops! Blew the baffle out of my Jardine!
04/19/12 at 12:31:49

On the way home from work last night, rounding a corner accelerating from 60 km/h up to 90 km/h heard a muffled "puh" and then all of a sudden bike was SUPER loud!

Happened on a corner with super soft gravel shoulders and in rush hour traffic so I rode home.
Found it on the way back in this morning, in good shape on shoulder about 6" off pavement.

Seems the 2 rivets I had used to hold it in place after the "tuned chamber" mod had failed.
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1311355746

Any ideas on a better rivet? I had used standard aluminum rivets.

Or is this a case of , use the standard rivets but add a baffle check to regular walk around?

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Re: Oops! Blew the baffle out of my Jardine!
Reply #1 - 04/20/12 at 10:41:32

Think I'd prefer either aircraft grade rivets or stainless steel ones.I'd also make that part of my daily pre-trip inspection to make sure the rivets are holding!

dinsdale wrote on 04/19/12 at 12:31:49:

On the way home from work last night, rounding a corner accelerating from 60 km/h up to 90 km/h heard a muffled "puh" and then all of a sudden bike was SUPER loud!

Happened on a corner with super soft gravel shoulders and in rush hour traffic so I rode home.
Found it on the way back in this morning, in good shape on shoulder about 6" off pavement.

Seems the 2 rivets I had used to hold it in place after the "tuned chamber" mod had failed.
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1311355746

Any ideas on a better rivet? I had used standard aluminum rivets.

Or is this a case of , use the standard rivets but add a baffle check to regular walk around?

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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10661 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: Oops! Blew the baffle out of my Jardine! Reply #2 - 04/20/12 at 16:25:30 yep, use steel next time aluminum rivets just don't get it on holding a baffle in a muffler tube
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MrBrownTX Full Member Offline Posts: 242 Caddo Mills TX Gender:	Re: Oops! Blew the baffle out of my Jardine! Reply #3 - 04/20/12 at 19:12:21 maybe more rives too if thats at all possible
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dinsdale Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 186 Ottawa, Canada Gender:	Re: Oops! Blew the baffle out of my Jardine! Reply #4 - 04/21/12 at 17:44:16 I'll try steel riveted and if they fail, will drill 2 more holes and try 4 rivets.
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