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Old 6th October 2021, 15:46   #3
chris75
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Originally Posted by vitesse View Post

My exhaust was knocking on the cross member due to tired rubber hangers. Solution was to undo the clamp to the rear silencer, new hangers, a block of 1" thick wood placed on top of the cross member and then re-tighten. It's now become my routine when helping local members change the rear silencer to always have a block of wood there before tightening the clamp.

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Old rubbers can be the problem , but the alignment of the rear box to the middle pipe often causes knocking noises . Loosening , twisting and retightening does indeed lift the pipe and usually solves it
Never tried the block of wood but it sounds like a good idea !
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