gotta shake

[chief]

A bunch of folks use the hard krome... I believe they are double walled. I don't have any experience with them myself.

Cheers.

[edwar355]

welp finally it fixed today.....what i done was take the rubber bushing's out of the stock exhaust and drilled out the mount for the new exhaust...works pretty good but i'm still going to get the classic mount and new exhaust....either vance and hines again or hard krome.........anyone have the hard krome exhaust on there's? I know there not suppose to discolor and for the price they shouldn't. pics would be nice if you have em'      thanks

[chief]

Check the mods area...

If you have pipes made for the drifter, you can buy classic peg brackets and make pipe hanger.

http://www.vulcandrifterriders.com/tbracket.html

Its really surprising how much difference it makes. When you hard mount the pipes you are defeating the purpose of rubber mounting the engine... and the stresses on the pipes has to be terrible.

Cheers.

[edwar355]

welp i took the back end of the exhaust off and left the headers on and took it down the road to see if the shake was still there and best i can tell its gone so now im drilling out the bracket and putting some rubber in there and see if that fixes it

[chief]

Removing the smog stuff and putting a plate on the reed valve port is what I did... I preferred it to sticking marbles in the vacuum hoses, but it is harder to do.

http://www.vulcandrifterriders.com/reviewpost/showproduct.php/product/388/cat/57

http://www.vulcandrifterriders.com/reviewpost/showproduct.php/product/389/cat/57

These are the same as on Gadget's site.

[edwar355]

its in the mods section..... here it is on gadgets http://www.gadgetjq.com/smogstuffremove.htm   there you go its really easy takes all of two minutes and it does help.

[Cosmos]

What is "the marble trick"?? I've never heard of that?

[edwar355]

Thanks ill give it a shot and see what she says

[chief]

800 or 1500?

Part of the problem with using aftermarket pipes made for the drifter 1500, is the hangers. The drifter pipe hanger (right footpeg bracket) is hard mounted. Drifter oem pipes have rubber elsewhere so the pegs don't need the rubber mount. BUT, when you change the pipes they become hard mounted in the rear... NOT GOOD... the engine wants to move on its mounts but can't because of the hard mounted rear of the pipe. Thus increased vibration and something will eventually break.

Buy a right side footpeg bracket made for the Vulcan Classic. It has the rubber mounting you need.

1) Then get pipes made for the classic.  OR

2) If you have pipes made for the drifter, fabricate a bracket to convert from the classic peg bracket to the drifter pipes. This mod is described in the mods section of the VDR web site. (not this forum).

As to the mid-range vibration - this might be your problem... but I'm not convinced there isn't something else going on.

[edwar355]

Ok ill start from the beginning... when i first got the bike it had the Vance and Hines long shots but when the previous owner put them on they broke loose the "doughnuts" on the headers so i got them welded back on. Then the bike started to pop BAD every time I let off the throttle it would pop 5, 6 times no matter how the rpm's. So I did the marble trick........didn't help at all. Then I cleaned the throttle body's and like magic the pop was gone. So thats taken care of finally. But now its gotta shake about it at mid range rpm i guess (no gauge), at idle no shake, high rpm no shake, doesn't matter what gear and I can pull in the clutch and the shake goes away. Any suggestions cause i'm stumped??