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I need to cut open an old Clubman, which I need to use again, as I can hear that the baffles have come loose. Whilst I'm in there, I'd like to replace the gauze and wadding to make it quieter.

Has anyone ever done this? Is it possible to buy this stuff? The wadding looks like it's only quite thin

I cut open a Royspeed box type exhaust donkeys years ago, they were a standard Innocenti pipe with Roy's own cone welded onto them. I don't remember any 'wadding' inside, It was lined with a coarse mesh but I THINK there was something hard between the mesh and the skin of the silencer. It was only a millimetre or so thick whatever it was. More recently I had an Indian Big Bore which I noticed to be rattling when I removed it. I gave it a good shaking and several pieces of a light coloured material fell out which were about 1 or 2mm thick. It LOOKED a bit like asbestos, I can't be sure, maybe someone else has more knowledge but I would be very careful when cutting, use plenty of water throughout the process

Storkfoot when you cut open the clubman can you take some pictures of the inside and post them on here please?
Cheers ove.

ove wrote:Storkfoot when you cut open the clubman can you take some pictures of the inside and post them on here please?
Cheers ove.

There's not much in there Ove, just one baffle about a 1/3rd of the way up from the tail pipe which has the inner end of the tail pipe sticking through it. Other than that it's just empty as far as I recall.

ove wrote:Storkfoot when you cut open the clubman can you take some pictures of the inside and post them on here please?
Cheers ove.

It'll be a few weeks before I get round to it. Here's a pic I saved off the internet of a standard box:



Col, the MB Clubman which has just arrived has, what looks like, a thin sheet of the type of wadding you put in endcans, covered by the same sort of gauze they have in other clubmans. Just found this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... ink:top:en

Cheers fella, thanks for posting that.
Ove

If you can get the mesh off and back on again then that stuff (maybe a couple of leayers?) should replicate what was originally in there. I hadn't envisioned you cutting it open all the way around, I cut mine straight across just in front of the baffle. The can in your photo is an early one as later ones didn't have the mushroom over the manifold entry. The Lambretta Tunining Manual suggested knocking a big hole in the mushroom with a metal spike.

here is a thread that I started http://scooterotica.org/forum/viewtopic ... 8&start=10 , there are some good pics of a twin pipe I cut open. cheers simon

Thanks, lads. Some good ideas there.

T5, have you finished yours and had it on the road?

storkfoot wrote:Thanks, lads. Some good ideas there.

T5, have you finished yours and had it on the road?

its in one piece, just need to finish the cone and u bend might have a go on sunday