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Old 10-24-2009, 07:17 PM   #1
kudzufarmer   kudzufarmer is offline
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Wierd Noises after Caddman Mod-----Update

Went riding today after performing Caddman mod yesterday....Trip I was over in your neighborhood today.....I was getting some strange noises on hard acceleration.....it almost sounded like a miss or misfiring spark plug, but no real loss of power....didn't hear it at light acceleration or steady riding...I checked all of the spark plug wire with a tester and all had a strong spark.

is this the sound of air going into the combustion chamber or is this the actual sound of the ignition of the fuel in the chambers as it is more open now.

BYW...I completly removed the solenoid valves, and plugged the air hose at the front solenoid........also put block off caps on the 2 hose attachment points for the solenoids.....may be nothing but can anyone make me feel better about this or that this is normal noise?


thanks for any feedback


UPDATE

Apparently I wasn't crazy I knew I was hearing something unusual......Played a hunch that the noise I was hearing was actually cam chain slapping.......did research on adjusting cam chain tensioners and tried it.....the noise was in the front cylinder...the bike has approximantly 16,000 miles on it...about 5,000 of those since I got the bike.....loosened the cap on the front cyclinder tensioner about 1/2 to 5/8 inch gap and then tightened it back up.....while tightening I heard 3 maybe 4 distinct clicks (tensioner pawl adjusting). when I tightened everything back up and started the bike it was much quiter and the particular noise I heard was gone.....ie moral of this story is that the tensioner was apparently stuck and allowing for slack in the chain......now to order some of the tensioner extensions from chuckster for next time



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