How to clean a motorcycle exhaust pipe? ›Street Moto Piece

Whether you have an Arrow motorcycle exhaust, Akrapovic muffler, original, custom or sports exhaust, cleaning will keep it looking and prevent premature wear from the pot. Discover everything Street tricks Moto Piece clean your complete exhaust system and return it to its former shine. 

Why maintain the exhaust of your motorcycle?

Whichever material you use for the exhaust, steel, titanium or aluminum, carbon (muffler), its aging inevitably. Indeed, with the pace и Heat generated by engine combustion, your motorcycle, ATV, scooter, cross, enduro exhaust system will present signs of fatigue (loss of gloss, rust, tarnishing, oxidation, etc.)... Natural restrictions (wind, rain, etc.) may also accelerate aging from your pot.

One of the biggest enemies of your exhaust (and your bike) is rust, mainly on steel manifolds and bushings... Lack of maintenance makes the manifold brittle and can be damaged by rust, requiring you to purchase a new one.... It would be a shame if you had to spend money to replace the exhaust system when regular maintenance enough to keep your original line in good condition.

Regular cleaning, a way to preserve the exhaust for a long time

As stated earlier, regular cleaning effective weapon against spoilage your exhaust. Prevention is better than cure. Indeed, regular cleaning will allow youprevent rust and do shine Your motorcycle exhaust. To do this, take motorcycle washer, a sponge, a small hot tub, and a microfiber cloth.

The interview is conducted as follows:

• use cleanser the entire exhaust line (manifold and muffler) and allow A couple of minutes.
• rub exhaust line with your sponge passing in every nook and cranny.
• Flush everything with hot water, making sure that no water gets inside the muffler, as this can cause corrosion on the following days. A very practical tool will help you with this: the exhaust cover.
• To complete it is necessary dry all with microfiber cloth.

Now voila! Now you have sparkling exhaust like new.

Oxidation, rust and corrosion, how to clean and repair a motorcycle exhaust system?

Step 1. Prepare the outlet

Just as with regular exhaust cleaning, you can arm yourself with a cleaner, sponge and microfiber cloth. Be sure to remove tar, insect and all impurities exhaust line.

Step 2: Clean the oxidized, rusty, corroded exhaust manifold.

It may happen that some exhaust pipes are attacked rust / oxidation without our knowledge. To cope with situations like this, you can remove the oxide from two ways :

• By hand with a steel wool plus a fine is possible, 000 or 0000 again (with Belgian chrome)
• Use a special machine such as a satin-brush screwdriver / drill (do not use a disc that is too abrasive, such as a felt disc, so as not to scratch the metal exhaust pipes)

Significant oxidation: deep stripping

If you notice deep rust, passage through the cleaning to drill is a must... Using the following cleaners, you can remove all rust from the surface:

• Belgom erases the strip (erases light scratches)
• Get Belgom
• Belgom Titanium Polisher (glitters for all types of paint and reliably protects paint from damage due to dirt)

Subsequently, the most affected parts can be cleaned with grinding machine equipped with polishing disc... This type of stripping takes a little time, but the result is worth it!

However, if the operations described above are not enough and the rust is too deep, Street Moto Piece offers you full exhaust lines ARROW, Scorpio, exhaust Akrapovich, Yoshimura or even TERMINONI (manifolds and rear muffler) adapted to your motorcycle and with original quality / original type to your old exhaust

Light oxidation: easy cleaning

On the contrary, if negligible oxidation and doesn't seem too crusty on metal parts, you can just use a cleaner Get Belgom and rub well (for aluminum, stainless steel, brass, chrome, etc.)

Some areas are difficult to access, especially in 4-cylinder manifolds. For convenience, you can it is possible to dismantle the collector for easier access to these parts (watch out for possible exhaust leaks). If you don't think you can disassemble the exhaust system, you have the option to visually clean the oxidation from the exhaust pipe.

Step 3: clean the motorcycle muffler properly

Silent exhaust from stainless steel, titanium or aluminum, polished belgom aluminum is more than enough for sparkling cleaning.

If your motorcycle muffler is made of carbon fiber, do not use abrasive cleaners. Since carbon is not a pure material, using the wrong cleaner will break down the resin in the exhaust silencer, causing white spots. Therefore, we recommend using Dry cleaning Wash & Wax.

Iron with a microfiber cloth to remove all traces of the product and withdraw bright exhaust systems.

At this point, your motorcycle's chrome exhaust pipe should be Very clean and must keep a few months even during your long journeys !

How to chemically descale the exhaust pipe / manifold

What is Calamine Exhaust? It's very simple, calamine is carbon residue formed during engine combustion. Thus, when the flue gases are removed, limescale builds up on walls your original pot and reduces its performance... That is why it is necessary descaling its exhaust. Mostly two ways to descale :

• Descaling chemical
• Descaling высокая температура (torch)

The descaling manipulation that will be offered to you is chemical descaling with caustic soda (available in DIY stores). To do this, you need to wear gloves (chemical reaction heats the stainless steel manifold to over 80 ° C), put on Points (caustic soda is irritating and corrosive to the skin and eyes). The manipulation is as follows:

• disassemble collector and Butcher side of your choice with cork for example
• pour 500 g caustic soda in the collector and commotion firmly for a few seconds
• Add to cold water et let's act A couple of minutes
• resume on the other side with a paper towel, stir again so that the soda dissolves correctly (and spreads over the collector) and remove a piece of paper towel (be careful not to touch the manifold anymore, as the temperature will rise to about 80 ° C)
• rest so that Do not move and let it act night in place Safe away from children

Leaving it overnight, all you have to do is:

• empty collector and dilute mixing with water
• rinse thoroughly a manifold with water to remove calamins and blow dry evaporate water

You now have a clean exhaust system that still looks beautiful.

Maintain motorcycle exhaust to extend its life

Yamaha, Triumph, BMW, Suzuki, Ducati, Honda, Kawasaki or KTM, you know the exhaust line consists of several individual parts : catalyst, removable baffle (DB killer), rock wool, etc.

During your cleaning, this is the best time to replace some Consumables... To give you an example, Rockwool degrades and loses its effectiveness over time... Which will lead to one of noise / higher sound and risk of losing possible pollution control permit from your pot. The sound level is higher with double outlet possessing several stone wool. Therefore, it needs to be replaced.