Has anyone here ever repacked the cannister on a V&H SS2? I used to love the sound of the exhaust but it is starting to sound somewhat metalic or tinny. Sounds are so hard to describe. Anyhow, any help or ideas in this regard would be appreciated.

 

Not V&H, but I repacked my Yoshimura can last winter. The sound you described is most probably caused by hardened silencer-wool. Here's a quick guide how to repack it, should take about an hour to do:

1.Go and get new silencer-wool. Should be found on almost every motorbike-shop and is quite cheap. You need a pack or two, depending how big the silencer is.
2.Open the canister. Unscrew any bolts and pull the cover off, it may be tight. Now you should see old wool around the inner "holepipe".
3.Get rid of that old wool. If I'm guessing right that wool is pretty solid and almost black.
4.Now comes the tricky part. You should wrap new wool around that holepipe very tight, and I mean TIGHT. Also there must be enough wool, that when you put the cover back on, there shouldn't be left ANY empty space in your canister. If you leave new wool loose or leave some empty space in, that irritating metallic sound will still be there. More wool, more deep-tone. I used tons of iron wire to wrap that wool together, and if you have any friends lying nearby, try to fool them to help you.
5.Enough wool? Ok, now just push that cover back on. If you have enough wool, it will be little hard to get that cover pushed back, but try to make it.
6.Start the engine. Satisfied? If so, jump to the next part, but if you still hear it to be too metallic, you just need more wool. Start over again.
7.Screw all bolts back and give a hi' five to your buddy. You're done!

If you have time, you can of course experiment how the amount of wool affects the sound. And I'm almost suprised if you're not gonna go for a testride with no wool around the pipe .

 

Great instructions!! Thanks for taking the time to respond with such an informative post. I'm sure that there are some others here who will find this usefull.

 

As long as he is not trying to pull the wool over your eye's


Sorry, couldn’t resist.

 

Great that you found it useful. It's maybe best that you get two packs (unless it's sold in some huge family-size pack) of that wool at start, just because it's cheap and it's irritating if you run out of wool when you're repacking the canister, and you can make funny santa claus beard if there's much wool left over . I bought just one pack of it and had actually to stuff some of old wool back in the can.

Lol at MarkR.

 

Im not sure what V&H can is on my ride but i removed all the wool and then that silly baffle thing(which i found was broken loose from its welds and banging around inside the can)and im very pleased with its tone. Also i believe that loud pipes save lives.