Anybody else's HMF pulling apart?

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...the decel pop it's creating sounds exactly like my buddy when he jumps a covey of quail with his auto 20 gauge....

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Just curious but did you have to shim the pipe away from the fender? Maybe combining bending the pipe with vibration is shearing the rivets?

 

Wow that doesn't look good. What did HMF have to say about it?

 

Mine's fine - When I installed it I tightened the muffler spacer first than the header pipe clamp second, so there was no stress "torking" on the system. Calling HMF customer service is going to be worse than dealing with the leak - YIKES! Let us know what they say.

 

I have the spacer but I don't think that's putting any additional force on the muffler (probably less than if I were to mount it straight up). I'm calling HMF bright and early tomorrow.

 

Wow let us know! Mine still looks new after about 700 miles. I hope it stays that way.[&o]Have you had many tip overs on the pipe? Hope they take care of you.

 

Wow man that sucks good luck.

 

Me smell something fishey. Those rivets are stainless steel, so that tells methere's too much stress fromimproper assembly. I would return th product.