I have been wanting to get rid of the huge mount for a while. It hung down lower than my muffler and seemed unnecessary. But I didn't feel like messing with having to make a new mount. I finally tackled it today. It was so much easier than I was expecting. I even used the mounting bracket arm already attached to my muffler. The only extra "part" I needed was a nut and locking washer. Just thought I'd share and post some pictures of the finished product.

After I removed muffler and belt guard, the muffler bracket under the bike was easy enough to get to. Removed the two 6mm hex bolts and 12mm bolt. Bracket came out. I reused one of the hex bolts, through the same spot it was in, just had to fit a washer and nut onto it.




Had to bend/twist the arm to reach from mounting spot to muffler, but wasn't too hard with a pair of pliers.




Once the angles were pretty close, I snugged everything back up and that was it. Easy "mod". Cleaned up right side of bike and dropped some weight. I'm pretty happy with the results.




Garbage/Dead Weight

While you may feel the original muffler mount is garbage and dead weight...it works great for most of us and you need to consider that Suzuki made it to hold up the original heavy muffler for the life of the bike - which could be 20+years and 100,000 miles or more.  It may have been a bit overdesigned for the lighter muffler you have installed - but for the original muffler designed to meet the sound restrictions.........it probably had to be built that heavy to withstand years of rough roads that some bikes might be ridden on.  There is no doubt that it is strong as some folks put their jack under the mount to lift the bike when servicing the back wheel.  If something whacks the muffler with the orginal mount most of the stress it going to be taken up in the muffler mount....with your thin strap a lot of that force is headed up the header pipe to the joint at the header/cylinder.   Suzuki could have made the mount out of aluminum and saved some weight.....but not on this low cost economy cruiser!

Time will tell how durable your mount is....it certainly is not as rigid as the original design.  If it allows too much movement and vibration it may cause the header or muffler to develope stress cracks....so don't throw that garbage and dead weight mount out too soon....you may want to use it again someday.  (Especially if you decide to move your battery!)

thanks for sharing  

You have any idea if the new muffler weighs less than the stock one? If so, youve got more weight gone than just 2 pounds..

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 05/02/14 at 22:18:12:


yea i'm sure it does, but it's the one that was on it when I bought it, so for me that didn't change.