I've been having a problem with the front end of my 2000 Heritage "chirping" may times whenever I hit even the smallest bump in the road.
I have pushed down on the forks and it doesnt appear to be coming from the suspension. I took it to a dealership and they did a test ride only to tell me that they werent sure what the problem could be and it would be necessary to get it up on a lift. Has anyone had a similar problem with this bike? I have a feeling I'm going to have to take it back to Harley but $$$ is a factor and I'd like to know if theres anything else I can try or at least send a tech in the right direction. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, scott

 

Do you have tools? Start checking nuts, bolts and screws. Use your palm to start trying to duplicate the squeek. Gently start tapping on parts such as the fender, headlight and driving lites, headlight surround and trim rings and such.

 

Check your rear swing arm pivot. It eluded me and drove me nuts on my FX for two years....

 

I have the same thing... only happens when just starting a ride so I'm figuring it is rust related because after it rubs some it quits chirping. I have been looking for quite some time, also. My noise is definitely in the front end. I have thought engine mount bolts but WD40 had no effect on the noise... let me know if you figure it out.

 

Chirping is usually a belt that is too tight.

Drew

 

Make sure your head bolt it tightened to spec ... and hit the almanite with a 100 - 150 hits of grease ... and see if that gets it.

Stealerships are notoriously bad at diagnostics ... and I've seen many a new bike .. including mine come off the assembly line with loose head bolts and no grease on the bearing ... I'm surprised you didn't have a noise earlier ... mine came with what I call the "Harley Clunck" right off the showroom floor .. took it home .. got out the torque wrench ... tightened to spec and induced 200 hits of grease on the almanite on the right side of the head assembly as you look forward over the wheel ... no more clunck ... maybe your chirp is a variation on the clunck theme ...

 

That has usually been my find as well. Also torque down your pulley bolts again.

 

I put here in 2yrs ago bout I put about a 100 squeezes on the grease gun before I got the air out and then finally some grease out of the neck bearings. my gun doesn't get much grease on each squeeze.
Others members though I was nuts.. but U have to fill the neck before any can be forced into the bearing if it wasn't done when new.

So I'd just say to grease till U hear the air (kinda like popping) and see a little grease coming out instead of a certain number of pumps as each grease gun puts out different amounts on each squeeze.

Then just wipe off the excess, may have to wipe it a couple times for a couple weeks.

I agree I think they hit it with a couple squirts when new, but it sure didn't fill the neck so any could get to the bearings.

 

I had the same issue on my 03 heritage and took me a year to figure it was in my shock area. a few squirts of cable lube and its been gone ever since.

 

Sons 07 Duece had a chirp.. as stated above it was the belt. The master wrench at the dealership gave him a little bit of belt dressing in a little tin and told him to put it sparingly only on the edges of the belt, not the whole belt.
Didn't make sense but it worked and ended the chirping.