This HOW-TO is from the zx14ninja.com forum. It was posted by Hub on 7/2/2008
After an oil change. Compliments go to, Mr. BlueBurnout's video...
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Engine-of-the-Zx14-at_33211.htm
Hear is what I did when I first heard the cam tensioner knock on the oil change. I shut the bike off once I heard the oil did not take on the first wizzz up the tensioner tube system.
This is my guess and since my assumption is the oil flew past the hole on start up? I am no engineer/designer. But watch the video. Could you make a guess at how simple the tensioner works under pressure?
I figure the oil just shoots past on start up is it lost that oil lock on the oil filter drain. What is hanging up is just shut it off and light it off again is what cured my '08's noise. I did it and it could make sense to one watching that oil ratchet the inner housing on the slipper arm.
That ratchet is locked and when the slipper eventually wears out, it will (the oil pressure) automatically both add slight pressure and automatically set the next tooth mark forward; so that tensioner's rod keeps moving out during quiet wear it down; got you covered on the slipper to chain noise...
Keep shutting down the oil pressure (even if you filled that oil cartridge it still makes noise) until it starts up normal, (like, no noise normal; no complaints on start up each time out for a ride sounds quiet and normal).
Try that start-stop-start and confirm that did the trick or you found it some other how-to-way is you are up next for the next tensioner noize cure.
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