09 6 speed clangs or bangs when shifting
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Cruiser
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09 6 speed clangs or bangs when shifting
I just bought an 09 Road King with 8500 miles, it makes the oddest bang or clang when shifting. I can also hear it sometimes when i release the clutch or when I go from coasting to pulling or vice versa.
my 04 never made this noise. Hard to believe anything would be wrong with 8500 miles but who knows.
Thoughts?
my 04 never made this noise. Hard to believe anything would be wrong with 8500 miles but who knows.
Thoughts?
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Cruiser
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I'm gonna check my primary chain tension just to be sure, but it's probably just the difference between the 5 speed and the 6 speed. Again, hard to believe anything is bad yet with only 8500 miles but anything is possible, it is a Harley.
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I just bought an 09 Road King with 8500 miles, it makes the oddest bang or clang when shifting. I can also hear it sometimes when i release the clutch or when I go from coasting to pulling or vice versa.
my 04 never made this noise. Hard to believe anything would be wrong with 8500 miles but who knows.
Thoughts?
my 04 never made this noise. Hard to believe anything would be wrong with 8500 miles but who knows.
Thoughts?
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Cruiser
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From: omaha NE
I changed all the fluids to the proper levels so it's not that, and it could be the clutch adjustment on the basket itself, but it sounds to me like the shift fork inside the tranny. I'll check the primary chain and the clutch adjustment before I get too excited. If it still does it I'll take it to my local Indy for a test drive and see what he thinks.
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Cruiser
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What about a loose or broken compensator? Have a friend that had the nut come loose on one, and another friend who had a broken one.
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Rode it again the other day and determined you don't have to shift to make it clang, just rolling on or off the throttle will do it, gotta be the compensator. I'll tear it apart this weekend hopefully, been cold here for too long!
