My bike has now over 200k km on the clock. After I destroyed one of the exhaust threads in my early times with the bike, I thoroughly heat the finned nuts with a powerful gas torch. Forget hot air blowers for they are too weak and slow. Doing so, the second thread is still in pretty good shape and easy the open. As anti seize I used a white paste plus graphite powder.
My bike has now over 200k km on the clock. After I destroyed one of the exhaust threads in my early times with the bike, I thoroughly heat the finned nuts with a powerful gas torch. Forget hot air blowers for they are too weak and slow. Doing so, the second thread is still in pretty good shape and easy the open. As anti seize I used a white paste plus graphite powder.