Swift
Mon May 30th, 2011, 11:09 PM
Originally, when the bike started making this horrible scatter/clatter noise, I was in fear that the internals were disintegrating while I was riding. :shocked:
From what I've been able to figure out after a little bit of reading, its a common noise associated with the cam tensioner spring that develops at low rpm or idle when the motor is at or above operating temperature and its only with the 1150 oil head. I can choose to replace it with an upgraded part to eliminate the noise or I can simply ignore it. Only 1 1150 boxer oil head has ever failed from this part and that was well over 200 thousand miles. Guess I can play it off when someone asks and say "It's my dry clutch making music" :drink:
Just thought I'd share since I know a few people have asked what the hell the noise was. I guess it sounded like my engine was going to explode. :w00t:
From what I've been able to figure out after a little bit of reading, its a common noise associated with the cam tensioner spring that develops at low rpm or idle when the motor is at or above operating temperature and its only with the 1150 oil head. I can choose to replace it with an upgraded part to eliminate the noise or I can simply ignore it. Only 1 1150 boxer oil head has ever failed from this part and that was well over 200 thousand miles. Guess I can play it off when someone asks and say "It's my dry clutch making music" :drink:
Just thought I'd share since I know a few people have asked what the hell the noise was. I guess it sounded like my engine was going to explode. :w00t: