No, that was not the problem. The packing was glass, sold in original Mossy
packaging. All the shop did was have it on the shelf for me to buy. The
melted parts I talked about would actually break like glass when I messed
with them. Definitely not plastic.
Thanks for the input, any other ideas?
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Thomas and Carrie Powell
1994 NOS injected
Tourmaster V-Max
"LAFGAS"
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----- Original Message -----
From: Sat Tara S. Khalsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: V-MAX TECH LIST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 3:42 AM
Subject: Re: Muffler packing
> on 8/19/00 1:04 AM, Thomas Powell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Recently I repacked my muffler with regular bike muffler packing from
the
> > bike shop. Well it has started to get loud again and there was a rattle
> > inside so I opened it back up thinking that maybe the packing had
settled
> > and I was going to put another layer on....................Well there
was
> > nothing left but about 2" that was covered by the cone before the
screen!!
> > The rattle was from the lockwire that I used to secure the packing.
Some
> > that was left was acutally melted!
> >
> > Any ideas??
> > ====================================
> > Thomas and Carrie Powell
>
> Hi,
>
> My guess is that the shop bought some polyester packing and sold it a
glass
> fiber. You can buy the right stuff from most of the exhaust manufacturers
> and try again. (And find a new shop)
>
> best,
> Sat Tara
>
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