vavle train noise
Road Warrior
Joined: Dec 2008
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From: Summit, Mississippi
U got 3 choices:
#1. Live with it and understand that is the way that it is.
#2. Spend some money on it and try to fix it, but understand it's a crap shoot.
#3. Take it to a dealer, raise he!!, cuss and stomp around, demand that it be fixed and threaten to call your lawyer. After all this, just accept their answer which is "that's normal" and go back to #1.
#1. Live with it and understand that is the way that it is.
#2. Spend some money on it and try to fix it, but understand it's a crap shoot.
#3. Take it to a dealer, raise he!!, cuss and stomp around, demand that it be fixed and threaten to call your lawyer. After all this, just accept their answer which is "that's normal" and go back to #1.
Road Warrior
Joined: Dec 2008
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From: Summit, Mississippi
How long has your bell been ringing? A loose compensator nut can sometimes manifest itself as bell-ringing when the rotor flops around. If it is, and it it has been that loose for some length of time....you may already have done a few hundred dollars worth of damage. If it's been making this noise for quite some time....likely something else, because if it makes the noise long enough and is a loose comp-nut, it will eventually chew-up your rotor teeth and the magnets on the rotor will bang on the stator if things get too loose and you will start to see it in the charging system............................if it holds together that long.
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Tourer
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Is this the spring (#4) that gets replaced with the Baisley Performance spring (05 883C punched to 1200)?
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I believe that is just a relief valve put in place to bypass a clogged filter. Not sure about your Sporty, but on my twin cam engine the baisley spring is placed in the cam support plate to force higher oil pressure output by the oil pump. Might check your manual to see where that spring is located on your sporty...
Cruiser
Joined: Apr 2009
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From: Charleston South Carolina
U got 3 choices:
#1. Live with it and understand that is the way that it is.
#2. Spend some money on it and try to fix it, but understand it's a crap shoot.
#3. Take it to a dealer, raise he!!, cuss and stomp around, demand that it be fixed and threaten to call your lawyer. After all this, just accept their answer which is "that's normal" and go back to #1.
#1. Live with it and understand that is the way that it is.
#2. Spend some money on it and try to fix it, but understand it's a crap shoot.
#3. Take it to a dealer, raise he!!, cuss and stomp around, demand that it be fixed and threaten to call your lawyer. After all this, just accept their answer which is "that's normal" and go back to #1.