Buzzing left light?

[Tubz1983]

So at low revs at a standstill and rumbling around town I get a buzzing from the left hand front headlight? On closer inspection I feel it could be sight let cracked at my end ? Anybody had this happen before??
Thanks again.
T

[fazersharp]

Well if you have figured out where the buz that every owner gets then you are a genus.
It could well be your light, I have heard a buz at around 3.5k revs and have had a poke around the fairing, couldnt stop it  -- got bored and left it     

[darrsi]

http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,7306.msg70926.html#msg70926

[fazersharp]

http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,7306.msg70926.html#msg70926

Nice one. I wonder if you are the only one OCD enough to bother fixing it. Mine only does it at a precise rev so anything under or over and no buz ( OEM end can )
But I might re look at it now as I do have some of that tape, it is wonder stuff, the last thing I used it for was to reattach a small branch from a topiary tree in the sharp hall ornamental gardens.

[darrsi]

The thing is, the more you let it rattle the more it will slowly but surely wear away at the headlight housing, so it will basically only get worse with time, it's not gonna go away.
And I'd imagine the worse it gets it will vibrate the hell out of the bulb and probably end up breaking a filament, plus it's bloody annoying anyway.

[BBROWN1664]

For many people the buzz was traced to the infill panels not being fitted correctly. Some foam sponge sticky stuff between the infill panel and the faring fixed it.

[darrsi]

For many people the buzz was traced to the infill panels not being fitted correctly. Some foam sponge sticky stuff between the infill panel and the faring fixed it.

I had that as well, I put a strip of soft Velcro down for the panel to sit on, sorted.

Same for the fairing plastic glass as well, a thin strip of Velcro either side stopped that buzzing too.

I got there in the end. 

[fazersharp]

Darrsi's Fazer
No buz here

[darrsi]

It's just like that 

[Gnasher]

This is a common issue and in my experience it's due to loose fitting of the indicator stems into the firing at their base.  The rubber that is use to mount them isn't the best fitting even when new and after time the rubber becomes hardened and allows movement which is in most cases as I said above to be the cause of the buzzing.


If you can move/twist the indicators there's a high chance this is your problem, to sort it, give the back of the mount (inside the firing) a good application of silicon where the rubber fits into the firing.  Once set the movement will stop and so will the buzzing.    [size=78%]     [/size]

[Nebuchernezzer]

And I thought for some reason it was just my bike that buzzed, I have no infills but will Def check the bulbs etc.

[fazersharp]

Right I have finally got around to doing something about this. After following darrsi's link to his past attempts with self amalgamating tape and others who put it down to the shield cap thing, I had a look and as you an see from my first and second picture if I pressed down on the bottom tab there was quite a bit of play behind the top tab so in the last picture I pressed down again on the bottom tab and added a blob of silicone behind the gap at the top tab and also a little on the bottom one but that one seems ok.
It is drying as I type so will have to let you know the out come on another day

[fazersharp]

New update ------------ it didnt fix it
I took both bulbs out and the buz is still there and it seems to be between the inner reflectors and the outer casing. With the bulb out if I press down on the inner reflector the buz goes away.