Exhaust packing

bobtrx · Post by **bobtrx** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:14 pm

I'm chasing steel wool to repack the Over mufflers ,as thats what is in it at present ,anyone know of an outlet or should I go to fibre glass matt as I have done with other mufflers

Waz · Post by **Waz** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:40 pm

You can buy it by the kilo at Bunnings or similar Hardware warehouse. Get the stainless stuff.

bobtrx · Post by **bobtrx** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:37 am

Thanks Waz I will check it out friday when I can get to a Bunnings store , wonder if the sales people will know its temp range ? While the mufflers are off its time to work out a complete system under the bike ( Buell) like

Waz · Post by **Waz** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:10 pm

bobtrx wrote:Thanks Waz I will check it out friday when I can get to a Bunnings store , wonder if the sales people will know its temp range ? While the mufflers are off its time to work out a complete system under the bike ( Buell) like

Get a course grade, the finer stuff does seem to "burn off" quicker.

ekoja · Post by **ekoja** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:48 am

Waz wrote:
bobtrx wrote:Thanks Waz I will check it out friday when I can get to a Bunnings store , wonder if the sales people will know its temp range ? While the mufflers are off its time to work out a complete system under the bike ( Buell) like
Get a course grade, the finer stuff does seem to "burn off" quicker.

Hi Waz
whats involved in repacking these things. I have a set of supertrapps that are somewhat noisier than is social (askGlen1TRX) and the thort was to try some fibreglass packing to see if I could make them more social
Cheers Ash

bobtrx · Post by **bobtrx** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:39 am

On closer inspection the inner baffle pipe had a layer of steel wool and I found a trace of fibre glass mat , so now I will reuse the steel wool and repack with new fibre glass mat , I have in the past brought matting and rivets from MEGACYCLE in melb when I repacked the other cans I've got , I don't think the steel wool from hardware would last long.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:20 pm

From my recent experience repacking my Wolf cans it makes very little
difference to the "noise". To reduce noise you will probably have to resort to some sort of Decibel killer device. You need to slow the gas down, unfortunately this has some effect on performance.
I used Glass fibre insulation in mine which was similar to the original packing, which tends to get pushed and compacted into the back end of the can.
dave