December 17, 200916 yr Following the quest to find out why my bike is so noisy, I bit the bullet last night and cut open the mid-silencer from my Rev3 . I cut away a panel on each of the long sides. The previous owners must have been running 20:1 oil mixtures because the wire-wool was caked up with spooge. All the baffle holes were blocked so the silencing contribution must have been close to zero. Managed to cut the majority of the wire wool away and then used a torch to heat up the carbon build-up around the baffle tube. It all came off quite easily to reveal all the holes. Next step is to put some new wire-wool in there and to weld back the panels....
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