Silencer Repacking
Posted: 08:08 am Jun 12 2012
G'day All!!!!!
Just wanted to pass on my find today - repacking a std silencer (on back of gnarly woods pipe).
I had tried to pull apart the cover from the end after removing the hex bolts without success.
A friend suggested putting heat on it. I grabbed my wife's scrapbooking heat gun & gave it a zap for three to five minutes each end.
Put it on the tip end first, grabbed the outlet with a pair of pliers & shaed it a couple of times then "voila!" out she came - ("this is waaaaay too easy") before trying the other end (again after 3-5 min of circular mothion with the heat gun - Popped out, looked ordinary & discarded the old packing.
New packing in West Australia was about AUD10 & put back in in les than 2 mins.
It is the easiest thing I have done on the old girl & I can't wait to hear the results! (the old one was very oily & dirty!)
Hope this helps someone! Cheers!!!
[Now Just waiting on my shock coming back from having the shaft rechromed after ripping side out of the seal & needing rebuild - has taken the better part of three weeks so far & still no word of it being ready - have repainted the frame, stand, pegs & rear brake lever, fitted new gear lever, fitted new lens, re-jigged cockpit cables & lines, ordered chinese KLX headlight & repacked the muffler - I really should be thanking those pricks @ Motorcycle Engineering ! (all done mid season though - so I missed out on at least three rides in the last 6 days!!!! ) she is looking schmick though - even for my dodgey standards]
Just wanted to pass on my find today - repacking a std silencer (on back of gnarly woods pipe).
I had tried to pull apart the cover from the end after removing the hex bolts without success.
A friend suggested putting heat on it. I grabbed my wife's scrapbooking heat gun & gave it a zap for three to five minutes each end.
Put it on the tip end first, grabbed the outlet with a pair of pliers & shaed it a couple of times then "voila!" out she came - ("this is waaaaay too easy") before trying the other end (again after 3-5 min of circular mothion with the heat gun - Popped out, looked ordinary & discarded the old packing.
New packing in West Australia was about AUD10 & put back in in les than 2 mins.
It is the easiest thing I have done on the old girl & I can't wait to hear the results! (the old one was very oily & dirty!)
Hope this helps someone! Cheers!!!
[Now Just waiting on my shock coming back from having the shaft rechromed after ripping side out of the seal & needing rebuild - has taken the better part of three weeks so far & still no word of it being ready - have repainted the frame, stand, pegs & rear brake lever, fitted new gear lever, fitted new lens, re-jigged cockpit cables & lines, ordered chinese KLX headlight & repacked the muffler - I really should be thanking those pricks @ Motorcycle Engineering ! (all done mid season though - so I missed out on at least three rides in the last 6 days!!!! ) she is looking schmick though - even for my dodgey standards]