Spark arrestor for Hawk DLX and Lifan Xpect

[Britt]

Do any of you have recommendations for spark arrestors that nicely fit on the Hawk DLX and Lifan Xpect? (yes, I know it won't be the same for both bikes)

[stewbrash]

It would help if you were more specific. Also, pictures with dimensions really help...but if you just want random spark arrestors...here you go:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=motorcycl...ref=nb_sb_noss

[stewbrash]

I used this for the stock muffler on my BSR Raven, it fit between the baffle and the tail-cone:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081174N8J...roduct_details


This one would have probably worked better, wouldn't have had to bend the tip over:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FVCWOFU...roduct_details

[Britt]

Originally Posted by stewbrash

It would help if you were more specific. Also, pictures with dimensions really help...but if you just want random spark arrestors...here you go:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=motorcycl...ref=nb_sb_noss

I'm hoping someone with either of these specific stock exhausts has already done this and found an arrestor that fit nicely or can recommend one that can be made to fit nicely. I can measure and improvise, but I'm hoping to see someone else's success first.

[Britt]

stewbrash, the arrestor you used https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081174N8J...roduct_details is pretty close for the DLX. It seems to be almost big enough around; I'd have to re-drill for three holes instead of 4. At $14, it's certainly cheap enough to try, and I wouldn't have to add any extra holes to my exhaust.

[China Rider 27]

I don't know the forest service regs for sure but I saw somewhere that the Forest Service considers stock (unaltered) bikes to have a spark arrestor. I have heard tell of a poke test where they put in a rod in the tail pipe to see if it will bottom. I wonder if the stock DLX and Xpect have already a spark arrestor installed? In my Hawk it was a piece of window screen size mesh held in place with pieces of wire.

[stewbrash]

Originally Posted by China Rider 27

I don't know the forest service regs for sure but I saw somewhere that the Forest Service considers stock (unaltered) bikes to have a spark arrestor. I have heard tell of a poke test where they put in a rod in the tail pipe to see if it will bottom. I wonder if the stock DLX and Xpect have already a spark arrestor installed? In my Hawk it was a piece of window screen size mesh held in place with pieces of wire.

Yeah, I saw that too...with the Raven you could stick a coat-hanger wire all the way down it...no arrestor. For something that is relatively easy and cheap to procure it's not worth the risk to deal with johnny law.

[stewbrash]

Originally Posted by Britt

stewbrash, the arrestor you used https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081174N8J...roduct_details is pretty close for the DLX. It seems to be almost big enough around; I'd have to re-drill for three holes instead of 4. At $14, it's certainly cheap enough to try, and I wouldn't have to add any extra holes to my exhaust.

I assembled the tail-cone over the wire spark arrestor and the pressure from screwing in the bolts that hold the tail-cone on compressed the arrestor around the exhaust-pipe coming out of the muffler...kind of hard to explain. No new holes or drilling.