| Author | Message | ||
     X1cavscout |
im a little bit paranoid about my bike but who isnt? anyway, i keep hearing this ticking like noise and i cannot figure out exactly where its coming from or what it is, it has to be engine related as it stays consistant with my rpms, my buddy has a sporty and says its the valves, and that the motor just has loud valves, im wondering how loud the valves should be and if it could be a timing issue... any info would be greatly appreciated, thanks | ||
| Guell |
without hearing it its kinda tough to diagnose. Pushrods maybe? Mine makes all kinds of noise, but at idle it sounds solid. They are very noisy motors | ||
| Jramsey |
Its normal to sound like a blender full of ball bearings. Rattles or knock's, you may have a problem. | ||
| Buellistic |
A "LONG" screw driver makes a good noise finder ... Put the handle up to your ear and touch around on the engine surface looking for noise ... | ||
| Pkforbes87 |
the forcewinder intake on my X1 introduced me to a lot of scary and perfectly normal sounds. With my head down next to the filter, I can actually hear a "gasping" sound every time a cylinder draws in the intake charge. | ||
| Buellistic |
That is why if you put the FORCE in the AIR BOX it makes less noise and you can ride in the rain ... | ||
| X1cavscout |
sounds like a paint can being shaken, is a better way to describe it, and coming from a 80's 450 suzuki which let me know instantly by sound if there was something wrong with it the throaty growl the buell makes is still strange to me | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Yeah, that'd be like moving form a sewing machine to the sound of a rock crusher. | ||
| Fahren |
Could be tappets. Are you running synthetic oil? Tappets will be louder if you are. Does the noise die down after a couple of minutes? If not, probably not the tappets. | ||
| Snowbees |
my x1 'ticked' until i started using quality 20-50w mineral oil formulated for v twins, mobil 1 or fuchs etc. | ||
| Fahren |
Snowbees, your reference to oil confused me: Mobil1 is a synthetic, and you mention using a mineral oil. Can you please clarify? I'm slow (no coffee yet). | ||
| Preybird1 |
I have lots of engine work done to my bike and some SE.536 cams and it makes so much more noise after the cams were installed. But i also had smaller diameter stemmed valves installed. But i can hear the cams a lot! They have there own sound and it travels thorough the push rods, It is very noticeable. | ||
| Snowbees |
Fahren, sorry , yes mobil 1 v-twin oil is synthetic, the fuchs (silkolene)v-twin i use at the moment is mineral . just use quality oil, it helps the ticking in my opinion. |
