New winter project

Originally Posted by TamSV

Two stroke exhausts do need regular de-coking. Soaking in caustic soda is the usual recommendation.

You can burn it out but it creates a fair old bit of smoke.

Horray, I suspected as much...though not so much horray for the caustic soda, dealing with that stuff isnt fun.

Think I may have started the burning process when heating it up to free the baffle, lets just say the Girlfriend wasnt too impressed with the clouds of smoke drifting into the lounge from the back room....

Cheers for the advice, hopefully I will be able to post back with a sucessfully clean exhaust...so long as I havent melted my fingers off with caustic soda.

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

My H100 coked up like that and I have fond memories of my dad coming home to find me burning the carbon out with a blowtorch in the back garden! He was not happy about the mess and smoke! My RXS100 however did not clog up, but then I was doing slightly longer journeys on that at higher speeds.

Think of them like modern diseasal cars - short journeys kill them but longer/flat out blasts let it all get hot and it naturally burns the rubbish off without needing a strip down to manually decoke them.

Good luck with the project.

Yeah from what I remember my uncle said it had been being used as a daily short commuter when he took it in so all the short trips could be a reason why, also considering the state of the rest of the bike I doubt it has ever been looked at.