oil soaked packing

[banshee mx 19]

i took my toomey t 6 silencers apart to repack and i pulled the packing out and it was normal colour on top and soaked in burnt oil on the botom what is going on here any ideas

[GrMeyer]

When you let the bike sit. Do you shake the bike to help the oil remix in the tank? When you run the bike, do you ride it like a grandma or ride it like it was built for? What is the oil ratio you mix it at? Are you running rich?

[Bansh-eman]

How old is the packing? Over time it is going to take on oil reguardless how hard you ride it.

[banshee mx 19]

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ya i do shake iy up to mix it and i mix it at 32-1 and ys it is slightly rich so it dosent low up as easily

i ride it how it was meant to be ridden

[Bansh-eman]

How old is the packing? Over time it will get wet and need o be changed.

[banshee mx 19]

at the most it will have 30 hors on the packing i know that that is alot longer than it should be in for but i t was october when i packed it last and i thought this should do untill the winter comes but it diddent come till deceber and thats when i parked the quad

so it has alot of hours on it do you thinkthat is the problem

 

sorry im having a bad day at typing alot of stuff is spelt wrong lol thanks for the help

[Bansh-eman]

I didn't see how wet they were, but they should last longer than a few months. You may be running alot richer than needed. Did they look/smell like oil or like fuel and oil mixed?

Edited February 13, 2010 by Bansh-eman

[MikeNick]

I thought you were supposed to repack 2 stroke silencers every 40 hrs or somethin like that dependin on how much you ride. There's no way around oil gettin in the packing since your burning oil in the gas so the exhaust fumes will have oil residue in it.

[GrMeyer]

True with and oil residue. But you should have burn out the packing before hey are socked with oil. Every time I have changed out my packing, they are burned out and hard with little oil on the bottom side. I also just use reg wall insulation because I had some around the house from redoing a room in the house. Seems to work just fine to me. And with having 6 quads and a rhino. The packing really adds up. People also need to remember not to repack to tight.