For those considering the Drag Pipe for the DS from Ron Wood, the rubber mid-pipe mount they have will not hold the drag exhaust since there is no exhaust can mount. I've given information to the solution to this problem to TheBOM - Since he did most of the work on the Drag Pipe design. I thought that was the correct thing to do.

 

So does that mean the heavy dudy mount you offfer on your site is no longer any good and no longer for sale?

 

The mount, and the solution I gave to theBOM is exactly the same.

 

Good deal Marky...I was just there looking at some pipe options and came accross that mount. And then read your post. lol

 

I used an aluminum spacer and Ive had no problems

 

There's nothing wrong with a hard aluminum spacer. I've used that before too. The rubber mount just takes some of the vibration out of the exhaust. Plus, with a rubber mount you'll get some give from the mount. I've broke about 4 bolts on a hard aluminum mount mount over the years. A good rubber mount is little better. With the pipe expanding and contracting, you'll put a lot of stress on a bolt and hard spacer. Like I've said, I've used both.

 

another point - if your RWR exhaust has been on the bike for a good while, make sure you can get the tailpipe seperated from the headpipe before you order a drag can. they may be rusted together, and it may be a bigger job than you think getting them apart. DSBOMB tried putting the drag pipe on at St. A's a couple weeks ago, he could not get his old RWR muffler seperated, I think the only way is to put some torch heat to it, but not everybody has a torch out in the desert.

yet another reason why I will never again own anything that is not stainless.