If I thought I could find something in that tensioner to figure out it was just a straight washer with a wave to it now, I'd send it back to BAD. He can tumble it in his hands and find out. I was just going to Meguyveer it MY WAY! I want to know why my tensioner took a shit the second we removed that bike off the dyno. I had that rattle going but it is no way as noisy as that 2010. Something let go, blew out, or ???, I'm no engineer that designed it.
For all I know, it could backup on shutoff like it does and that tensoner is there to zip that up like a fly. I would have to throw the clear crank cover back on again, watch the shutdown, slow-mo the stop. If the crank moves backwards, we know the oil pressure was off on the key fob stroke. What moved that chain back could be the cam lobe trying to come up a ramp but is pushed back by the valve springs.
Could be instant. Could be overnight, could be walk away, come back in an hour the slack is in the front now. Only that window covers knows for sure and I don't care. My chain is not chewing itself up when I see that crank sprocket exposed. It has a brand new look to it. No silver shin like it lost the flat off the round. Now the gear tooth is polished, but that polish is wear on both chain and sprocket.
You get a runner with the noise gone, you can't tell if you pushed how many pounds of inch on that slipper arm? I'm trying to point out a lot of points to chase on the static approach and you are on the running approach. YOu have no clue of high spots in the chain so you bit into a slipper on one rung, the other rung comes around loose is a goose is you don't get it!
At the end of the day, I have no clue what causes what in this world. That says it all right there you time 3:33 to 3:44 you tell me what is going on in your world.
* Last updated by: Hub on 6/26/2010 @ 9:33 AM *