Steel Wool Exhaust Packing

Inside your dirt bike muffler or silencer is the exhaust core which is a tube with holes in it and is often covered in steel wool on newer pipes.

Steel wool exhaust packing. Made by owens corning fiberglas corporation. A thin layer of tightly wrapped stainless steel wool will not catch fire and will make the fibreglass packing last longer. Exhaust muffler packing through a special process this stainless steel steel wool is sewn into a sturdy fleece of 1000 mm wide. Hate to bring up this thread again but i have a question on baffle packing.

Benefits of stainless steel wool in exhaust systems. I came apond a free one pound box of pyrex brand wool filtering fibre by corning glass works. The ss packing visible in my staintune can seems to be of the coarse variety. Benefits of stainless steel wool in exhaust systems.

Edited august 2 2011 by. Between the core and the outside can sits the exhaust packing. For over 30 years stainless steel wool has been widely by oem s to prevent blow out of fiberglass packing materials and or to enhance the sound of the exhaust system with a deep exhaust tone. Available per meter 25 and 50 meter roll.

Packing the muffler with steel wool or fiberglass insulation. Some riders use steel wool or steel dish scrubs as dampening material inside their mufflers. Highly resilient to turbulent exhaust flows and temperatures to prevent blow out. So coarse grade must be ok.

This may result in some initial improvement but it s not an option that stands well over time. Catalog 3950 looked up the msds sheet for this product and it has a 875 degree softening point. It also comes with a significant fire hazard which makes it an alternative i do not. I originally wrapped mine with regular steel wool and it caught fire on the first run and spat metre long flames out the exhaust.

The packing itself is a mat or pillow that is usually some kind of fiberglass or similar material. The weight density is approx.