Exhaust to silencer seal on a D6

[gacf]

Hi All,
I've found I have a leak between the right hand silencer and exhaust on my D6. There appears to have been some sort of gunk sealing the join previously but it has flaked away. Can anyone offer some suggestions on how best to re-seal the join? I've been looking at some Halfords stocked products as I'll be able to go buy them today hopefully...

www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_164909_langId_-1_categoryId_165625#dtab

www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_164997_langId_-1_categoryId_165625

Thanks for your thoughts/feedback.

Gavin

[m40man]

Either of the above, used quite sparingly, underneath some of this:
www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_193099_langId_-1_categoryId_165691

..... should do the job for you. More permanent if you wrap the repair in, for example a sleeve made from a cut-down baked bean or beer can, secured on with a jubilee clip or two .

[sparky392]

it would be good if you could show pic to see how big hole is and where etc..

[gacf]

Aug 6, 2011 8:55:39 GMT m40man said:

Either of the above, used quite sparingly, underneath some of this:
www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_193099_langId_-1_categoryId_165691

..... should do the job for you. More permanent if you wrap the repair in, for example a sleeve made from a cut-down baked bean or beer can, secured on with a jubilee clip or two .

It's not so much a hole, it's the join where the silencer slips over the pipe or vice versa... the sealing compound has come away and has left a small gap most of the way around.

I think some putty and a bandage will do fine. It looks like someone has done it poorly before and not cleaned the surfaces thoroughly and it's just fallen away. I'll need some beer too it seems, wait for photos of my face bandaged to the exhaust...

[showaddydadito]

On both sides of mine the mild steel union from the downpipes to the silencer had rotted to a fine tissue of rust. One side I made up with gun gum and a sleeve cut from an old biscuit tin lid from the days before the christmas biscuit tub was plastic, and on the other side I used an old aluminium printing plate to make the sleeve. Big Jubilee clips hold the sleeve in place on the left. On the right I was reduced to stringing smaller jubilee clips together to make long ones - it was that or spend money (!)

If you look closely at it, it all looks horrible, but when you sit on the bike you can't see it at all, and it works a treat.