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Submitted by john_crocker on Tue, 07/07/2020
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I've been riding my recently acquired navigator, done about 60 miles now.  I'm surprised how noisy the exhaust note is.  I think rather too noisy, I wouldn't want to ride any great distance without ear plugs!  The silencers look to be of the type/shape that would have been originally fitted to my non-expert Norton eye.

I've just taken the silencers off the bike and find I can see right through from one end to the other.  looking down the inlet end there is a "louvered" baffle tube blanked off at the exit end.  This blanking piece has a small hole in it, approx 1/2" diameter.  Should that hole be there?  Looks to me that there is plenty of room for the gasses to exit the silencer through the baffle tube so I am going to block this hole off in the hope it quietens things down a  bit.

Might there be an alternative silencer I could fit? 

John

Submitted by dan_field on Tue, 07/07/2020

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I’ve got a pair of club silencers they work well, but as a youth I had Dunstall long megaphones, that got me a fine for excessive noise, boy were they noisy .....And that was a jubilee!  Suprising how noisy the are if not properly silenced!,

Submitted by john_crocker on Fri, 10/07/2020

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Thanks for the comments, I've now blocked the holes in the end of the baffles.  It's taken the edge off the noise, still quite noisy but I can live with that for the time being.

I've made a note of the baffles from the Classic bike shop, maybe fit those in addition to whats already there?

Now to deal with the oil leaks.......

 


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