Please listen my engine sound. Chain?

car5car · 04-29-2011, 10:45 AM

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**ringadingh** · 12-12-2011, 07:58 PM

These are typically noisey motors by design. Some days mine sounds like a bucket of bolts, other days not so bad. They seem noisier in the colder weather also, at least to me it does. I wouldn't really worry about it too much, they are a bullet proof motor for the most part.

**ringadingh** · 02-27-2012, 10:33 PM

A large nut will also work to unscrew the tubes, you dont even have to pull the spark plug out.

macmac · 02-28-2012, 05:07 PM

If I recall it's 22mm, and so any bolt with 2 nuts jammed on will make a allen wrench. If I am correct, then any bolt 7/8" SAE will work as well with the nuts jammed.

Another way is to hear it better.......... You can use any longer socket extension as a stethoscope. With one you place it in the area where you think the sound is loudest and place an ear on the rod to hear. Then move your ear away and move the rod again to another place you want to hear and or compare.

If you have a sloppy cam chain it will be heard really well.

old curmudgeon · 02-28-2012, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by macmac

If I recall it's 22mm...

It's 27mm on my 2006 (and I'm pretty sure everything else too...)

Hey Mac, glad to see you back in the forum!

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ringadingh Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Newmarket Ontario Canada Posts: 35,387	These are typically noisey motors by design. Some days mine sounds like a bucket of bolts, other days not so bad. They seem noisier in the colder weather also, at least to me it does. I wouldn't really worry about it too much, they are a bullet proof motor for the most part. __________________ 2002 Nomad aka Bountyhunter VBA #27 VROC #18951
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ringadingh Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Newmarket Ontario Canada Posts: 35,387	A large nut will also work to unscrew the tubes, you dont even have to pull the spark plug out. __________________ 2002 Nomad aka Bountyhunter VBA #27 VROC #18951
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02-28-2012, 05:07 PM	#4
macmac Sr. Contributor Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Tamworth New Hampster 06 1600 Posts: 12,484	If I recall it's 22mm, and so any bolt with 2 nuts jammed on will make a allen wrench. If I am correct, then any bolt 7/8" SAE will work as well with the nuts jammed. Another way is to hear it better.......... You can use any longer socket extension as a stethoscope. With one you place it in the area where you think the sound is loudest and place an ear on the rod to hear. Then move your ear away and move the rod again to another place you want to hear and or compare. If you have a sloppy cam chain it will be heard really well. __________________ 06 1600 Nomad Just call me Mac molon labe come and get it
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