Has anyone experienced a leak in their stock exhaust at the junction point in the crossover tube? I have replaced the stock exhaust with emgo adapters and a set of generic cocktail shaker mufflers (NOS from the '70s), which are pretty loud. Despite the loud exhaust, I could hear a leak from the crossover and could see soot at the clamp from the leak. The leak is fixed now, but just wondering if anyone else has had the same problem.
Also, I had been lazy about pulling the air injection off, and put 4000 pipe blueing miles on the bike before I finally removed the AI. As I was fixing the exhaust leak, I decided to REALLY polish the pipes, and managed to get rid of most of the blue. I figured it would be worth the effort, since the cause for the blueing (AI) was removed. Well I was wrong. All my elbow grease was a waste; after 15 min the pipes are blue again. So is it that once you've got the blues, you've always got the blues? 
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'05 Thruxton, Epco, RaceTech fork springs & cartridge emulators, YSS Shocks, Unifilter, snorkel out, 130 mains, 40 pilot, 1 shim, pilot screw 3 turns, turtle wax
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