Strange sound after lowering
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:29 pmAfter talking with someone on this forum, I checked the preload on the shock, and it was around 2". Since this Baghira is too tall for my 58 yr old 6'3" body, I took it down to having about 1/4" of threads left on the shock, and dropped the forks in the triple clamp 15/16", which is about as far as they will go without hitting the bars. I also had to cut the kick stand down about an inch so the bike wouldn't fall over.
2 hours later, moving the preload nuts are a real bitch, the bike dropped around 2" and is much easier to mount and dismount. However now, I hear, and people several yards away, a strange sound that I have never heard before. I cut the rubber flapper in front of the rear tire thinking that was rubbing, which it was, and no difference. It only makes this sound while moving, and of course you can't hear it when getting on the throttle with the D&D exhaust. My girl friend says it sounds like the sound a scooter makes. I think it sounds like something rubbing, metal to something, but I didn't do anything except take the preload to almost the highest level. It isn't real loud, but you can hear it putting around constantly, but it doesn't change that much with speed or RPM. Unless you gas it, and then you can't hear anything but the exhaust.
I also backed the pilot screw out to 7 turns, and it helped everything from starting without the choke to not popping on deceleration, to getting up and going.
I am baffled, as nothing I did should have made this sound. It was getting dark, I was pissed off, and I parked it.
Any ideas?
2 hours later, moving the preload nuts are a real bitch, the bike dropped around 2" and is much easier to mount and dismount. However now, I hear, and people several yards away, a strange sound that I have never heard before. I cut the rubber flapper in front of the rear tire thinking that was rubbing, which it was, and no difference. It only makes this sound while moving, and of course you can't hear it when getting on the throttle with the D&D exhaust. My girl friend says it sounds like the sound a scooter makes. I think it sounds like something rubbing, metal to something, but I didn't do anything except take the preload to almost the highest level. It isn't real loud, but you can hear it putting around constantly, but it doesn't change that much with speed or RPM. Unless you gas it, and then you can't hear anything but the exhaust.
I also backed the pilot screw out to 7 turns, and it helped everything from starting without the choke to not popping on deceleration, to getting up and going.
I am baffled, as nothing I did should have made this sound. It was getting dark, I was pissed off, and I parked it.
Any ideas?