1979 rd250 exhausts info

[rwebster]

hello all
looking for a bit of advise regarding my 1979 rd250
i have a set of silencers marked 2R8 and i had wgat i thought were the down pipes.. but when i went to fit exhausts the downpipes seem to be to small i measured them and downpipes are 40mm approx and silencers are 44mm approx is there diffrent sized pipes on diffrent models
any info would be very helpfull

cheers rod
by the way if they are wrong does anybody have the correct downpipes

[arrow]

Hi mate. You appear to have E/F silencers with C/D header pipes.

[Norbo]

well i know very little but when it comes to the windey ones arrows your man so if thats what he says then thats it .

[rwebster]

cheers arrow
i take it the e/f silencers are correct then and downpies wrong

[arrow]

Frame/engine number donates correct model, but have a look on the sides of the barrels, they should also state 2R8 for that year. If this is the case then its almost deffo that its the headers that are wong.

[rwebster]

will check those numbers today arrow
its just a bit of a pain when you are getting near end of a build and you discover things like this grrrrr
i suppose its the joys of restoring bikes tho haha
cheers again for info

rod

[arrow]

They are a lovely bike mate. It will all be worth it in the end.

[Paul Dawkins]

I may have a spare set of 250 E/F down pipes, just let me know your frame prefix and I will see what I have.

The pipes are 2R8 and thats definatly 250E/F.
I hope you have the correct pipes for the bike and you only need downpipes.

[rwebster]

hello paul
the silencers are deffo 2r8
i bought the bike from a woman who,s husband died he had stripped bike . i have already got some bits from lady and she did say if anything else was missing to go out and have a look so i will go and see her and if i cannot find them i will get back to you
thanks again rod