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08-04-2018, 06:52 PM | #16 |
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All the cicadas I've heard have more of a chirping sound than a rattling sound. I'd check your brake pads/rotors. If a rotor is even slightly warped, it can barely touch a brake pad every time the wheel rotates.
Just a thought.
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08-04-2018, 08:53 PM | #17 |
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speedo housing on mine rattles, sounds awful, but i'm learning to live with it, I just turn the music up a little louder, lol
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I would check the tensioner. If you didn't get the bolts tight it can suck and blow air from around it like a crankcase vent. Glue on the spring itself? You may have some restriction in the tensioner now, not letting it put the correct tension on the cam chain.
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A little foam rubber or weather stripping should do the trick.
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08-06-2018, 10:37 PM | #21 |
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I put the new bushings, and it still rattles, after $100.00 and 5 days of trying to get it to shut-up, I'll live with it til winter
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08-07-2018, 06:05 PM | #22 |
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Look at your heat shields and the little slots the clams go through. I had one separate from the shield on the little pinch weld, it was tight to the pipe it just wasn't attached to the heat shield.
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08-12-2018, 07:31 AM | #23 |
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I had a noise that drove me crazy. It was the bunched up wiring in the headlight bucket.
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10-01-2018, 06:22 PM | #24 |
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My 03 VN1600 Classic is new to me since mid-July this year. It had 30,000 miles on it when I rode it home 300 miles to Green Bay. It has all the classic mods right down to the blocked off reed valves. At least I assume the reed valves were properly removed, all I see are blank block off plates with no hoses attached.
But mine too has this persistent cicada rattle/buzz sound in every gear, right around 2300 to 2700 rpm, in every gear. To me the noise seems to be coming from under the front of the fuel tank. Next time I ride it and hear the sound I'll rest my hand around the bezel on the fuel tank or headlight bucket to see if it dampens out the noise. For certain I have to find it and get rid of it as it drives me bonkers, its one thing I don't like about my Vulcan. |
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10-02-2018, 06:13 PM | #26 |
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WOW!! A carton of Jim Bean Black???!!! I am ALL over that.
Heh, heh, thanks for the reply. Guess I'm on a more involved cicada search than I thought. At least I'm not the only one hearing it. Maybe I'll take it for a ride without the tank bezel in place. If the noise is gone, its a start to solving the noise issue. If the noise is still there, at least it will indicate the bezel isn't making the noise. |
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Well, it wasn't the bezel, so the search continues. Next, the headlight and wiring inside. There is no grill on the radiator so its not that. The horn was replaced with a Stebel that mounts behind a fake left side air filter. So the search goes on.
Up here in Green Bay it got up to the low 50s last Saturday. I went to my rental storge unit to get the bikes out since last November. The Vulcan cranked over fine and fired right up, so it got about 30 miles of exercise. My 07 BMW R1200RT, barely cranked. I jumped it on a lawn tractor battery and got it going for a 120 mile ride. Was a good day back in the saddles.
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Well, I killed the cicadas. Actually, I got into the headlight shell and found the relay and wires laying loose inside the shell. I zip tied the wires into a tighter pack along with the relay, and then wrapped the pack in a shop rag. Back together and on the road, and the cicada buzz is gone. Ahh,.....now just the sound of the bike to enjoy.
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