My bought used Sportster has always had a very high pitched "clicking" sound coming from the transmission. It sounded the same as a ticking valve in a car. It was very very loud and really a bit annoying. Being a new rider and the fact that my bike only had 2182 km on it when I picked it up I figured that is how a Sportster should sound.......not even close. Saturday I decided to change out the tranny fluid and check the chain tension. The tension was fine but the fluid was a close second to black. There were only a few metal shavings on the drain plug, nothing to really worry about. I took the bike out for a quick ride after the fluid change and the clicking sound was completely gone and the bike feels A LOT smoother. The shifts are a lot quieter and the bike is overall is a lot smoother. It feels like a different bike all together, it has gone from a rattling noisy paint shaker to a smooth cruiser with one fluid change.

I post this in case anyone else has let their tranny fluid change go to long.

 

Ok,it has to be the magic fabled oil,the one that rebuilds yer bike with one oil change.Give it up,pennspecbilenesoil right?

 

Change all three holes every 5000 miles with nothing but Syn3.
I has always ran smoothly.

I hope this doesn't start another fluid thread.

 

I get my oil changed twice a week.

 

Probably the new oil flushed something out of a lifter and right now doing what it's supposed to do, cleaning all the other crap out, wouldn't hurt to change the oil filter in about 1K kms.