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Old 07-25-2010, 03:58 AM
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I have the tbr on my bike and today I took off the p4 tip and arrestor and went for a ride just to see how it sounded. I noticed it was real sharp and had a crackle to it instead of the original deep thump. So I went to tbrs website and looked at repacking, every 10 hours? I think that's kinda much for a commuter? I have probably 2500 miles on the system. But I went ahead and did a couple searches about steel wool. So I put that in there and I might say it turned out quiet well. Without the arrestor it had a sharp note, so I put the p4 and arrestor in and I'm pretty content. Looking at the packing I pulled out it was very compacted and slammed towards the outer wall of the casing. Taking up only like half the volume. Just a heads up,
 
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Old 07-25-2010, 07:05 AM
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Was the steel wool a repack kit or something you made? Details please as I'm trying to tone mine down too. Thanks
 
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Old 07-25-2010, 12:12 PM
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Maybe repack after 10 hours is something they recomend to ward off complaints about not meeting claimed perfomance specs as far as dB reduction. Kind of a fine print.

Like junk food mfrs putting nutitional values on products based on tiny serveing sizes.

On the repacking note maybe I should repack my muzzy. The bike has 10K on it and muzzy must have at least 8000 miles. Deej have you ever repacked yours?
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Old 07-26-2010, 02:31 PM
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Well my exhaust wasnt sounding like it used to. I wanted to take my p4 tip off and run it like it was out of the box, but it was really raspy and crappy. So i took the end cap off and pulled the packing, it was blown out. So i just bought some steel wool from wally world and it back to what it was like maybe a little mellow-er. It still has kind of a "crack" without the silencer tip in.
 
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Old 07-26-2010, 02:33 PM
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Every 10 hours?!!!! What the freak? Dude the Muzzy went 10,000 miles and it still looked new when I took it apart. In fact the guy on the phone told me I was wasting my money ordering one. Oh well.
 
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Old 07-26-2010, 02:34 PM
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I would estimate that the Muzzy could go 20,000 miles before a re-pack was needed.
 
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Old 07-26-2010, 04:39 PM
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I blew the packing out of my Muzzy twice in 1 season, about 5000 km, mostly woods.
 
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Old 07-26-2010, 10:13 PM
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Thanks for the #s deej
I just hit 10,000 on the bike this weekend muzzy was on the bike when I got it at 3000 so just for good measure I think I will repack at 12000 along with other service.
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Old 07-26-2010, 11:25 PM
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its all in the jetting. if its not jetted right, you'll blow the packing out. found that out on a bomber ds 650 quad
 
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Old 07-27-2010, 12:28 AM
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I think I'm just a lot faster than you guys
 


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