13-06-13, 10:09 AM
(07-06-13, 07:53 PM)unfazed link Wrote: A few questions
What mileage is on the engine?
Is the tensioner working correctly? They rarely fail but can stick from lack of use (Rust). Does it move in and out freely with the ratchet off the splines. Are all the pieces including the ball bearing back in the correct order?
Were all the valve clearances set correctly and the cam shaft caps put back in the correct positions
Does the chain have the right number of links? 130 incuding the soft link, it would not be the first time I have seen somebody fit the wrong length chain.
I think you will have to recheck everthing metodically even down to counting the number of links.
The only thing I came accross many years ago on a honda which caused the chain to rattle after installing a brand new one was a damper which had gone soft., but I have never heard of it happening on a fazer.
i've just gone over 20000 miles its an 03 fzs600
the tensioner is not sticking, looks clean as a whistle, yep bearings springs back in, even tried the extra bearing trick but no luck.
valve clearances were checked and all within tollerance
now chain links did pop into my head as I didnt do the chain myself, next time i get chance to take the cover off i'll see if i have more than 130 links
im going to replace the springs in the tensioner with a rod the correct length, making it a manual tensioner effectively and removing the slight play. just to rule out the tensioner as a problem.