Kerker Gen1 baffles baffeling me.

[Maj Woody]

So in the process of my spring spa treament on my '05 I noticed alot of carbon on the outside of the Kerker slip on end caps. So I preceded to take off the end caps and pull the baffles to find that ther was on packing on bottom of can and burnt up in both cans. I leave in 24 hrs to Branson Mo on the bike so any help would be great. Thanks in advance.
So 2 questions:
1 can I get away with pulling baffles, so the dont rattle on my week long trip or do I leave them in and rattle?
2 can I use any exhust packing in the kerker?

 

[SpecOps13]

Any motorcycle muffler packing properly installed should be GTG.... If you pull the baffles it will likely run rich...

 

[Rollie]

So in the process of my spring spa treament on my '05 I noticed alot of carbon on the outside of the Kerker slip on end caps. So I preceded to take off the end caps and pull the baffles to find that ther was on packing on bottom of can and burnt up in both cans. I leave in 24 hrs to Branson Mo on the bike so any help would be great. Thanks in advance.
So 2 questions:
1 can I get away with pulling baffles, so the dont rattle on my week long trip or do I leave them in and rattle?
2 can I use any exhust packing in the kerker?

Do you have the entire Kerker system or just slip-ons ? What is the intake opening size ? We may have a replacement in the piles of stuff.

 

[Maj Woody]

I have the slip on, I went to a local shop they had some MX packing so ill use that as a temp fix till I can do it right.

 

[RaWarrior]

The non-woven "blanket" material is what you want, but that pink fluffy stuff for MX bikes should work fine as well.