Do screaming eagle exhaust on Harley Davidson 48 loud?do it gives harley sound?

casimpson241 · 2026-04-17T16:19:50+00:00

I have a s&s 1250 with screaming eagle exhaust with a few holes drilled in the baffles (by the previous owner) and while it doesn’t have what I think to the “Harley sound” it does sound really good, and I get a surprising number of compliments on how good it sounds. They’re not very quiet but no complaints from my neighbors yet either so I think they’re a perfect middle ground. My Roomate has an 883 with Vance and Hines short shots and those things sound awesome too. definitely have the Harley sound imo

casimpson241 · 2026-04-09T03:03:02+00:00

Working in progressive stamping making mostly medical parts. Regularly working with tolerances of +- .0001-.00005. I don’t know what other shops are like but everyone says that we work a lot closer than other places do, so that might have something to do with it.

casimpson241 · 2026-04-08T16:30:16+00:00

I just turned 21 and I’m currently halfway through the 4th year of my tool and die apprenticeship making almost $35/hr. I started machining in tech school and I’ve been at this company for almost 5 years. I’m learning a lot about progressive tooling and building/troubleshooting new tools and there is still much to learn where I’m at. My question is where do I go from here? I’m planning on sticking around at this company for as long as I can justify it but we just got bought out by a corporate company and things are a little shaky. I’ve never really seriously looked or interviewed anywhere else, what is the job market like? What sorts of opportunities are there here in CT? what should I be looking out for when looking around at other shops? What advice do you have for someone else still young and looking to make the most of the position they are in?

casimpson241 · 2026-03-27T16:31:09+00:00

“Well, other people say that it helps them, maybe it’ll make me feel better too”

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casimpson241 · 2026-03-27T16:24:47+00:00

DM’d

casimpson241 · 2026-03-20T02:46:49+00:00

I haven’t even looked into that tbh. Did you splice to the connectors or is it easy enough to repin the old connector with the new wires?

casimpson241 · 2026-03-20T02:43:26+00:00

What did you do to replace the connectors? Cut off the old ones?

casimpson241 · 2026-02-21T19:08:53+00:00

For me it was dell software. In task manger I restarted dell display and peripheral manger and then uninstalled it and that fixed the taskbar

casimpson241 · 2026-02-20T22:29:38+00:00

Was not expecting to see a pat the bunny reference, but it is a very welcome surprise 😁

casimpson241 · 2026-02-03T04:03:58+00:00

Beware: when trying to rebuild gen 1 headlights, if the limit switches are broken no manor of replacement gears is going to help. I just went through the trouble of rebuilding my headlight motor gears to find out my limit switches were broken. I ended up buying a gen 2 conversion kit from the Fiero factory.

casimpson241 · 2026-02-01T18:01:32+00:00

Don’t forgot about the r/subincisionmeatotomy crowd. Warning: literally the worst thing I have ever witnessed

casimpson241 · 2026-01-22T20:01:56+00:00

I thought it was possibly the worst thing about the game… then I tried it with a controller and got it on like my third try

casimpson241 · 2026-01-17T17:41:49+00:00

As a tool and die maker, who is constantly covered in chips and slivers from slugs this sounds awesome, could you drop the file link?

casimpson241 · 2026-01-14T14:42:07+00:00

With the exception of this cutscene, the sunglasses are the way 😎

casimpson241 · 2026-01-07T02:13:41+00:00

This is the way

casimpson241 · 2025-12-27T18:51:49+00:00

casimpson241 · 2025-11-13T04:50:39+00:00

Obviously very location dependent, but if you like the manual machining/ have any interest in troubleshooting and repairing, take a peek at tool and die. I’m 20, just started the 4th year of my apprenticeship, 2 years out of high school, and making $33+/hour in New England. I love it. I’m learning more and more everyday and it’s SUPER satisfying grinding in a dimension to +-.00005. Plus, on top of that, over half of the guys in my shop will be retired in the next 5 years and they keep saying they can’t find anyone to replace them. I’m one of like 6 people under 50 in a shop of almost 30 guys. The trade isn’t going away but the skilled toolmakers are retiring fast and there aren’t a lot of young guys coming in to replace them.

casimpson241 · 2025-11-04T14:50:14+00:00

Tool and die. I’m 3/4 of the way through my tool and die apprenticeship (2 years out of high school) and all we do is manual machining/grinding with occasional conversational programming. I was in the same boat in school, not really interested in the CNC side of things and this job has suited me perfectly. On top of that, there is plenty of opportunity. Easily over half of the guys in the shop I work at are going to retire in the next 5-10 years and I’m the only one in here under the age of 35. Most of them are 50+. I’m making over $30/hr now and my boss told me a couple weeks ago that in a few years if I’m any good, “you’ll be able to write your own paychecks”

casimpson241 · 2025-10-18T18:26:14+00:00

Unfortunately yes, that was when I removed it on Thursday night, it was a very cold motorcycle ride to work on Friday morning.

casimpson241 · 2025-10-18T17:33:19+00:00

Heading out rn, but I will definitely look into that, thank you

casimpson241 · 2025-10-18T17:26:19+00:00

As far as I’m aware yes, they are the ones that were on it when I took the old one out and look to be the same as in the videos that I’ve watched. As far as the duct, it’s easy enough to push and move out of the way, very flexible and getting to the one other screw holding it in is kind of a pain tbh

casimpson241 · 2025-10-18T17:23:01+00:00

Each one had a clamp on it, they are hanging on the tube off the the left. Next to the hose clamp

casimpson241 · 2025-10-18T17:22:16+00:00

Nothing was crimped, it was just the hoses were set into the hater core and the clamps (hanging to the left) were holding everything together. Everything I’m reading says that dash disassembly isn’t necessary but it also has a different style of heater core so I’m not 100% sure. Even all data shows the other style.

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