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you mean where each exhaust pipe goes into the head? .. . .each one is separate .. Yes is a round, real thick, metal and fiber, gasket in each one. That will be a stock Suzuki part that is fairly common, used by many models and years. They are real thick, an suppose to turn the nuts on the flanges to a certian torque spec. Some folks just turn them till way too tight and smush the gasket way too much and then it leaks after a while, especially if then reused.
Or maybe it was not tight enough and now is leaking, maybe first try tightening up just a little, it does not need to fell like the bolt "bottoms out", it just needs to compress that big thick gasket some.
Other than that, no, not too difficult. If replacing the gasket, May have to take all the exhaust loose to get any pipe to clear the exhaust opening. Or maybe can pull that pipe from the other pipes below, but maybe easier to take all pipes loose of the bike and move all at once, than to pull one or two pipes away from the others ..... maybe, maybe not, never can tell with bolts and nuts that maybe have not been undone in decades, or were undone just a year ago and overtightened or otherwise messed up.
Oh, do yourself a favor, yourself or anyone else that works on it in the future... get some antiseize grease (little tube for a few bucks) and use just a little bit on every bolt thread you take apart. Just a little bit rubbed in between the threads near bottom of bolt will spread out and cover the threads. Years later, you can take out the bolt and you will say, wow that was a lot easier than before.
You mean where the exhaust pipes have come together and go into the other pipes. The pipes look stock to me (maybe coated), and if they are stock, Those gaskets would be called "connectors" (if like my G) on the zuki miocrofosche. BassCliff site has a tutorial about replacing those (he got pictures and description of that from some weird goofy guy here on the forum.).
( http://members.dslextreme.com/users/bikecliff/ near bottom, column on right, 3rd from the bottom)
An old original stock "conector" that is leaking will not even look like it is something replaceable, is so hard and brittle that you might just think is the pipe itself. I think maybe the original 30+ years ago was some fibre (asbestos?) or mesh but now is full of carbon and is so hard it seem like a solid metallic. A new one is made of a metal mesh that doesn't look anything like the exisiting. The difficult part maybe getting the old ones out, may have to hack and scrape and pry, or look at the tutorial and see an easy way that goofy guy figured out.
And then is a tight fit to get back together.
If the pipes are not stock, well, then, I cant say.
Do post your location.
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you mean where each exhaust pipe goes into the head? .. . .each one is separate .. Yes is a round, real thick, metal and fiber, gasket in each one. That will be a stock Suzuki part that is fairly common, used by many models and years. They are real thick, an suppose to turn the nuts on the flanges to a certian torque spec. Some folks just turn them till way too tight and smush the gasket way too much and then it leaks after a while, especially if then reused.
Or maybe it was not tight enough and now is leaking, maybe first try tightening up just a little, it does not need to fell like the bolt "bottoms out", it just needs to compress that big thick gasket some.
Other than that, no, not too difficult. If replacing the gasket, May have to take all the exhaust loose to get any pipe to clear the exhaust opening. Or maybe can pull that pipe from the other pipes below, but maybe easier to take all pipes loose of the bike and move all at once, than to pull one or two pipes away from the others ..... maybe, maybe not, never can tell with bolts and nuts that maybe have not been undone in decades, or were undone just a year ago and overtightened or otherwise messed up.
Oh, do yourself a favor, yourself or anyone else that works on it in the future... get some antiseize grease (little tube for a few bucks) and use just a little bit on every bolt thread you take apart. Just a little bit rubbed in between the threads near bottom of bolt will spread out and cover the threads. Years later, you can take out the bolt and you will say, wow that was a lot easier than before.
You mean where the exhaust pipes have come together and go into the other pipes. The pipes look stock to me (maybe coated), and if they are stock, Those gaskets would be called "connectors" (if like my G) on the zuki miocrofosche. BassCliff site has a tutorial about replacing those (he got pictures and description of that from some weird goofy guy here on the forum.).
( http://members.dslextreme.com/users/bikecliff/ near bottom, column on right, 3rd from the bottom)
An old original stock "conector" that is leaking will not even look like it is something replaceable, is so hard and brittle that you might just think is the pipe itself. I think maybe the original 30+ years ago was some fibre (asbestos?) or mesh but now is full of carbon and is so hard it seem like a solid metallic. A new one is made of a metal mesh that doesn't look anything like the exisiting. The difficult part maybe getting the old ones out, may have to hack and scrape and pry, or look at the tutorial and see an easy way that goofy guy figured out.
And then is a tight fit to get back together.
If the pipes are not stock, well, then, I cant say.
Do post your location.
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.
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