Pipe cleaning

Tobacco pipes need cleaned from time to time. Do the pipes on our XJ need this? So I'm asking if anyone has done this ? Why? And what did you find?

 

If you're talking about cleaning the insides of the exhaust system I would think running seafoam through the system would do that as it is good for cleaning the carbon off of the valves and cylinder head.

 

When I say run see through seafoam the system I mean via the gas tank

 

I knew what ya meant.

 

So im guessing that no one has pushed a flexible brush up and down through the pipes just to see what comes out ?

 

Apart from a light dusting of soot, there should be nothing there. It's only two-strokes that need it and the best way is to burn it out with oxygen.

 

Interesting, i have a old set of pipes and i dropped one, i picked it up by one end and black dust and small chunks of something fell out. I thought about it i wonder if the inner tube rusted. The chrome on the out side only had small dots of rust very little discoloration The chunks were flat and flaky. I might buy a endoscope to take a look.

 

Chunks falling out are gonna gonna be rusted parts

 

With the age of our bikes I don't know if I would try to clean them. By putting something up there to clean it out, you could do more damage than good.

 

I clear the pipes by twisting my right wrist.

 

on the first start of my 550 the mufflers cleared them selves and blew all this black stuff on my garage door

 

^1 Been there done that one time....lol. I always have a open door behind the bikes now.