My winter project.
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2019 1:01 pm
Back in 2016 my Caterham silencer needed repacking. I wrongly thought it was designed to be repacked, as most kit silencers are, and at £460 it isn’t cheap to replace. Some of you may remember that I had some fun doing it, but to cut a long story short, I repacked it successfully.
At the time, I had two problems: 1) I didn’t have any way to weld stainless and 2) I had to cut the centre tube to get the end plate off. I got around these by riveting some stainless onto the front face to secure the centre tube:
At the end of this summer, I noticed a crack had developed in the front cap, so as a temporary measure I welded it and riveted on some external reinforcement that looked terrible, but got me through until winter.
I took the end cap off in November, you may remember me posting a photo of the Acousta-fil packing that had lasted really well. And since then I’ve been trying to figure out how to repair it. Here is the cap:
At the time, I had two problems: 1) I didn’t have any way to weld stainless and 2) I had to cut the centre tube to get the end plate off. I got around these by riveting some stainless onto the front face to secure the centre tube:
At the end of this summer, I noticed a crack had developed in the front cap, so as a temporary measure I welded it and riveted on some external reinforcement that looked terrible, but got me through until winter.
I took the end cap off in November, you may remember me posting a photo of the Acousta-fil packing that had lasted really well. And since then I’ve been trying to figure out how to repair it. Here is the cap: