2007 sportster rattling noise
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04-21-2007, 03:10 AM
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04-21-2007, 11:12 AM
RE: 2007 sportster rattling noise
I just bought a 2007 Sportster 1200L and noticed a rattling noise coming from the engine that sounds like when kids used to put baseball cards on their bicycle spokes. The noise is constant whenever I use the throttle at any speed and in every gear. Because it is a brand new bike and I have been abiding the break-in rules, this is very frustrating and discomforting. Is this normal? Has anyone heard the '07s sound like this? Can someone please shed some light??
Also, make sure that what you are hearing is actually engine noise. I have had my timer cover come loose and make metallic noises. The gas cap can rattle as well.
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RE: 2007 sportster rattling noise
Check your primary chain. Mine was making a rattling noise every time I accerlated. At first I thought it was my exhaust sheilds were loose. Finally after checking everything I found that my primary chain was very loose. When I adusted it my rattling noise problem went away.
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04-21-2007, 09:18 PM
RE: 2007 sportster rattling noise
I just got my sporty back from the dealer a week ago for that very reason rattling noise it took them 5 days to tell me it was normal it sportster noisy lifters. I suggest louder pipes the 07 exhaust is so quit you hear everything but i agree it is very bothersome. Ride it like you live long and hard.
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04-21-2007, 10:27 PM
RE: 2007 sportster rattling noise
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I just bought a 2007 Sportster 1200L and noticed a rattling noise coming from the engine that sounds like when kids used to put baseball cards on their bicycle spokes. The noise is constant whenever I use the throttle at any speed and in every gear. Because it is a brand new bike and I have been abiding the break-in rules, this is very frustrating and discomforting. Is this normal? Has anyone heard the '07s sound like this?Can someone please shed some light??
I just bought a 2007 Sportster 1200L and noticed a rattling noise coming from the engine that sounds like when kids used to put baseball cards on their bicycle spokes. The noise is constant whenever I use the throttle at any speed and in every gear. Because it is a brand new bike and I have been abiding the break-in rules, this is very frustrating and discomforting. Is this normal? Has anyone heard the '07s sound like this?Can someone please shed some light??
I replaced alower rocker arm cover gasket not too long ago on my Sporty, and when I started it for the first time afterwards, I heard a ticking sound that I never heard before in the engine. I then turned the motor off while my heart beat fast, turned it on again, and it did the same thing. This happened about 3 more times of turning it on and off, listening to it for awhile, and then shutting it off.[/align][/align]Then I got to thinking and I pulled a plug off that I had taken off while replacing the rocker cover gaskets so I could turn the engine over more easily and find top dead center on that cylinder, stuck a vacuum attachment into the hole, ran the vacuum awhile, put the plug back in, and fired it up again. No more noise.[/align][/align]I initiallyhad the plug out when the weather started to blow hard when I was doing the repair, and I covered up the engine rocker cover area andwent inside and forgot about the plug being out. When I came back out after the windstorm, there was wood chips and saw dust all over my bike from the wind having whipped it up from my yard where I was doing a wood project the week before. It's possible that a little wood chip may have unbelievably landed in the spark plug hole and was rattling around in there when I started the bike; I don't know.[/align][/align]Either that or it took about 5 start ups to re-pump up the hydraulic lifter that may have been stuck; I don't know. They bleed out when you re-torque the rocker covers down, so its possible they just needed some time to re-pump up again; I don't know.[/align][/align]But in any event, this is a true story, and while I tend to think it was just a dry, stuck lifter and not something that got on top of the piston and was rattling around, I have no real way of knowing for sure.[/align][/align]If it was a wood chip, it wouldn't have hurt the cylinder or piston or head, at least; just made a little noise perhaps, if that was indeed what it was.[/align]
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