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can i clean the packing or do i need to get new?

Is that a stock pipe?

I'd get new packing

Is it steel wool? Might be able to clean it by soaking it in solvent

I'm pretty sure steel wool will burn, so definitely don't use a torch on it

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KDX Butterfly wrote:can i clean the packing or do i need to get new?

that really looks pretty good

You are lucky you don't have an fmf

Mr. Wibbens wrote:>|
Seriously?

Why is that?

I've been using Silent Sport (its not pink) for about 7 years. One bag will last at least 3 - 4 packings. It is super easy to use

Maybe because it was pink and I felt emasculated by it, I dunno...
I think it came down to the design of the silencer (for me)- With the sleeve off, I had to try to wrap as much pink frilly stuff around the perforated inner pipe. I wrapped as much as I could and it was just a bit tricky to try to keep it all wrapped fairly tight and slide the sleeve over it. I feel that having a sheet/roll that I could cut to the right length (matching the inner perforated pipe) would have been easier and I likely could have put more packing in with it more evenly distributed....
YMMV, this was just my first experience with repacking a silencer.

Yep, that is a stock E series silencer. That looks like factory packing as well and it needs to be replaced.

Pick up some of the rolled type 2T silencer packing (I use FMF and get 3 repacks out of it), cut it to the same width as the factory one, then wrap it around the pipe, and tape it in place with masking tape. Then reassemble the pipe and you are done!

locally, i can get moose and it is 7.95/per packing

I pack mine fairly loosely

You want it to fluff up

Does not really pertain to this thread since it looks like Budderfry has a stock pipe

But I connect the stinger to the turbin core as pictured



Then I pull some handfulls of string out of the bag and pull it apart with my fingers, then evenly as possible start stuffing it around the core



Then slide the assembly down further and add more, and more



Put some hi-temp sillycone on all the joints and hardware and you are done

can i clean the packing or do i need to get new?

Sure, put the whole thing in your dishwasher.
It'll work out great!

KDX Butterfly wrote:locally, i can get moose and it is 7.95/per packing

Yep, that will work fine.

KarlP wrote:

can i clean the packing or do i need to get new?

Sure, put the whole thing in your dishwasher.
It'll work out great!

Uh, I sure wouldn't!

KarlP wrote:

can i clean the packing or do i need to get new?

Sure, put the whole thing in your dishwasher.
It'll work out great!

+1

rbates9 wrote:

KarlP wrote:

can i clean the packing or do i need to get new?

Sure, put the whole thing in your dishwasher.
It'll work out great!

+1

I doubt he will want to do it for me. Much less have the whole darn thing put in him!

no rad valve. sold that to kdxmaniac i think. i have a reed valve on it now.

back to reed. sold the rad to kdxmaniac i think.

all taken apart and cleaned! ready to repack and install! i will be happy when she fires up the first time! :)

i am using fiberglass sheeting that must be cut to the size of the core. i don't ACTUALLY have to use wire to keep this in place, do i? seems like unnecessary work.

masking tape

can't i just wrap it really tight, hold it tight, and slide it in tight?

It will slide in easier if you tape or wire it in place. You might run out of hands trying to do it without something.

i hate fiberglas

Oh buy the way it is not a bad idea to wear rubber gloves while repacking a silencer.