Clicking sound when cold

[His Dudeness]

What does the can chain rattle against?

The only metal-on-metal is between the chain and sprockets. All the guides are plastic. No?

My bike developed a bit of a rattle but it was actually one of the exhaust manifolds coming loose, making that cylinder particularly load with a tick/rattle, worth checking maybe?

Brett

It's doesn't rattle against anything. If the tensioner is at its limit you'll have a slack chain spinning at up to 15000 rpm so it's going to make a bit of a racket.

[anutz]

hows the bike OP, my chain was rattling a while back and after a few hundred miles its is ok, but i knew it was the adjuster as i had just put in a new tensioner gasket i forgot about when i re-built the head, so the adjust was a fraction off clicking....now its clicked and its silent

[darrsi]

hows the bike OP, my chain was rattling a while back and after a few hundred miles its is ok, but i knew it was the adjuster as i had just put in a new tensioner gasket i forgot about when i re-built the head, so the adjust was a fraction off clicking....now its clicked and its silent

This post was 3 years ago!

[anutz]

er.....no idea why i did not see that.....maybe i should stop using the delorian to go to work