Is Hearing a "Whistle" Normal When You Turn Off Your Bike?
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04-26-2007, 03:57 PM
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Is Hearing a "Whistle" Normal When You Turn Off Your Bike?
Sorry, this may be a real noob question as I have this is my first Harley and I haven't owned a bike in about 14+ years (and I only owned that one for about 6 months)
anyway noticed that when I shut off my 2007 Road King that I hear a whistle....like a "toot" ...sounds just like a bird or someone blowing just a single note. It doesn't do it every time, but the first few times it did it, I'm looking around for that damn bird LOL
Is this normal? is it just the compression leaving the motor? is it haunted [sm=smiley5.gif]? LOL
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04-26-2007, 04:02 PM
RE: Is Hearing a "Whistle" Normal When You Turn Off Your Bike?
If you have a open, aftermarket aircleaner they will ocassionally "woof" thru the air cleaner on the last compression stroke that does not fire. Normal.
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RE: Is Hearing a "Whistle" Normal When You Turn Off Your Bike?
ORIGINAL: Varooom
If you have a open, aftermarket aircleaner they will ocassionally "woof" thru the air cleaner on the last compression stroke that does not fire. Normal.
Doug
If you have a open, aftermarket aircleaner they will ocassionally "woof" thru the air cleaner on the last compression stroke that does not fire. Normal.
Doug
dang skipit I wondered why the pump handle at the gas station was green...must have filled up with the wrong stuff
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RE: Is Hearing a "Whistle" Normal When You Turn Off Your Bike?
I will also admit that I thought it was a bystander whistling at my bike (or me)a couple of times LOL
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04-26-2007, 04:12 PM
RE: Is Hearing a "Whistle" Normal When You Turn Off Your Bike?
This may be totally unrelated but are you turning off the key switch to turn off the bike rather than the run/kill switch followed by the key switch. There has been some debate in the past here on the forum both ways that just turning off the key switch rather than the run/kill switch first has different affects on the bike. Just a thought.
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RE: Is Hearing a "Whistle" Normal When You Turn Off Your Bike?
ORIGINAL: Keith_H
This may be totally unrelated but are you turning off the key switch to turn off the bike rather than the run/kill switch followed by the key switch. There has been some debate in the past here on the forum both ways that just turning off the key switch rather than the run/kill switch first has different affects on the bike. Just a thought.
This may be totally unrelated but are you turning off the key switch to turn off the bike rather than the run/kill switch followed by the key switch. There has been some debate in the past here on the forum both ways that just turning off the key switch rather than the run/kill switch first has different affects on the bike. Just a thought.
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RE: Is Hearing a "Whistle" Normal When You Turn Off Your Bike?
A toot? im sorry, but thats just frigging funny!
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04-26-2007, 04:40 PM
RE: Is Hearing a "Whistle" Normal When You Turn Off Your Bike?
I hear this sometimes when I'm riding down the railroad tracks. Still haven't figured out what it is...... [8D]
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