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Are you positive this noise just started, or is it possible you just focused on it while paranoid about cone damage, and simply hadn't noticed it before?
Well, she runs as fine as she always has and there is no more smoking from the exhaust and still no fluids anywhere. The bluish green fluid may have been grease or something from other than my bike, like the orange cone. You may also be correct in saying that this noise may have always been there. But, i really doubt it.
If someone else comes up with any ideas, please share them with me. Even though i can fix or replace anything on this bike. Im not the best at the diagnosis. As someone added before about my intake dripping oil? I have an Arlen Ness big sucker intake. So, all the hoses and possibilities of oil dripping on my engine have been eliminated.
Please keep giving all you know or maybe you are experiencing this same problem yourself?
Thanks Y'all for everything!
The fluid looks like grease, either from your neck bearings ( does 15s still have a grease fitting, every year I grease my softail I get a little glob of grease blown onto my exhaust a few weeks later) or another vehicle hit the cone and had overgreased tie rods the left some on the cone for you. The cone may have also moved your exhaust heat shield just enough that its hitting somewhere, try loosening the heat shield clamps and repositioning the shield a little.
Just got back from an extended ride. All the noise "rattling" is from under the timing cover.
But, when im holding steady like say, 45 mph in 4th gear. There is no rattle coming from the timing cover. But, when i let off the throttle and stay in that gear, the rattle begins until i apply throttle again to hold that speed.
Sitting still at idle its kind of yes and no as it happens. 50/50.
So, im thinking timing chain tentioner?
Any ideas?
I have a 2015 dyna wide glide. The other night coming from bike night i hit a orange cone in the road with my right foot at 80 mph, it was painful. But, no harm done, so i thought
The next morning i go to right to work and as the bike is warming up, there is a rattle from the right side of the engine. Sounds like the timing cover area.
I checked for damage and seen nothing. No leaks or drips on the garage floor. All fluid levels are normal.
I let the bike sit a week while on vacation and when i got back yesterday. I started it again and watched and listened. Still the slight rattle from the right side. Except, this time after the exhaust heated up, i had something smoking off the exhaust, i could see it.
So, i shut it off and ran a paper towel along the bottom exhaust pipe and the liquid burning was not much. But, it was a bluish green color.
i have no idea what it could be? If you look to the right of the bluish green mess, you will see my engine oil color, because i checked the level on that.
this is my tranny fluid which is purple, because i use Royle Purple tranny fluid.
This has been about 2 hours now and there is nothing on the bottom pipe where i wiped it off before. But, that rattling from the lower right is still there at idle. Its starts then stops back and forth.
The bike idles and runs perfectly besides the rattle and this mystery oil or whatever it is?
Any thoughts? Im baffled.
Thank You
Either way. There are no leakes anywhere. It must have come from that cone.
But, i still have the problem of the rattling coming from the timing cover.
Either way. There are no leakes anywhere. It must have come from that cone.
But, i still have the problem of the rattling coming from the timing cover.
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