I decided a few weeks ago that I was bored with the wrapped exhaust. I still like wrapped exhausts, but I just got bored which is par for the course for an 81 y.o. Type A trapped in a Type D body, obsessive modifier who can't ride much any more (pretty crippled up,, don'tcha know?
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So yesterday I pulled the exhaust off. This morning I finished Phase 1. Removed all the wrap, wore the chrome on the pipe down to a tooth with a powered wire brush, took the shine off the muffler with Scotch Brite pad. The Eastwood black on the muffler is really attached well and very tough as rattle can paint goes and my back and hands are wrecked for the day
The worst part was getting the two narrow SS hose clamps at the engine end cut off with a cut-off wheel. They would NOT unscrew - paint + heat.
All this took just long enough to listen to both Blood On The Tracks and Bringin' It All Back Home on the record player machine which was just right pain-meterwise
I should have put the Before picture first. Oh, well.