It's always a good idea to use new sealing rings at the cylinder head when putting the exhaust back on. Barring that, you might get lucky and not have a leak using the old ones. There is a trick to putting them back on.without tearing your hair out. Takes two people to replace them. Hook the header clamps on the studs and slip a screwdriver into the rear support hole (don't use the bolt) The screwdriver will allow the assembly to move about while you tighten the header clamp nuts. Always start at the front and work back.. After you get the header clamps secured, install the rear bolts and tighten. The seal at the head is more important, start there.The sealing rings are meant to crush, some techs will turn them around to present a fresh face to the pipes flanges. I prefer to keep them in the same place, same hole. Thanks for putting a bike back in service.
--- On Wed, 11/12/08, Poor34 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Poor34 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] New Member! To: "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 6:15 PM Hi All!, New to the group because I just picked up a 2000 Nighthawk 750 with only 7,200 original miles and an inch of dust and rust. The previous owner was a traveling business man who neglected her for the past 2-3 years. So I picked her up on the cheap, put a ton of work into her, and finally got her running in great shape. But now it's time to make her shine. Which leads me to my first questions... If I am going to take off the exhaust pipes at the headers are there any special tools or gaskets I should be concerned about? I went through past discussions and didn't see this topic come up yet. Thanks for the help Ryan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
