09 softail standard engine noise
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09 softail standard engine noise
Hi all just new to the site and would like to get some answers. I have an 09 softail standard and have a strange noise coming from engine at front near the oil filter and it sounds like something is running dry and gets noisier with temperature but keep getting told nothing does anyone have the same noise or mighnt know what i,m lookingt at please help 
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No strange new noise's on my bike. The ones she makes is the same she's always had.
Who's telling U nothing? A wrench or just some friends who may or may not know what there doing.
Noise can sound like its in one place but really is coming from else where.
More info would be nice, its really hard to say what Ur prob is over the net and U need to explain it better.
Reread Ur post and THINK, does it really explain the problem so others can understand what I am trying to say. Cause Ur's is very vague about the problem.
With what Ur saying I'd start with checking ur oils, bolts
Need more info to really say much.
Who's telling U nothing? A wrench or just some friends who may or may not know what there doing.
Noise can sound like its in one place but really is coming from else where.
More info would be nice, its really hard to say what Ur prob is over the net and U need to explain it better.
Reread Ur post and THINK, does it really explain the problem so others can understand what I am trying to say. Cause Ur's is very vague about the problem.
With what Ur saying I'd start with checking ur oils, bolts
Need more info to really say much.
Last edited by oct1949; Sep 15, 2011 at 07:46 AM.
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A mechanical stethoscope can be helpful in pin pointing and identifying mechanical/motor noises. Relatively inexpensive on ebay.
Good luck
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Recently had a noise coming from that area on my 09 Night Train. I thought I had noticed it before, but it continued to get worse. If I had the bike in neutral, and pulled the clutch in it went away. Let the clutch out and it would start. I thought it was the inner primary bearing going. Indy agreed it was that, or clutch hub bearing, most likely CHB. And that's what it turned out to be. Replaced both while it was apart and all is good.
So. Does the noise come and go by pulling the clutch in and out?
So. Does the noise come and go by pulling the clutch in and out?
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Does it sound like a washing machine on slow spin cycle,sorta like a wooshing/whirring sound? If so it is the sound your counterbalancers make when running. Perfectly normal. Both my TC Softails (Night Train & Fatboy) have done it from day 1 new.
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+1, same on my '07 FXSTC
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I had wondered exactly what it was that made that noise! My '04 Deuce has that constant 'whirrrr'-type noise too. I 'knew' it was normal but didn't knoew what it was. Thanks!
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Sorry for the thread resurrection... but here goes...
I have to say that I have found real comfort in this thread - my 07 heritage (only 3k mi) makes this sound too... and to hear that many of you have the same sound makes me feel better!
Sounds almost exactly like my washing machine - just when the spin cycle starts. the same swishing sound as the washing machine gets up to speed.
I am a bit concerned however because I listened for a while at the dealership - as they started and moved a row of bikes - none of them had the sound at all.
Made me wonder if I'm hearing something bad.
Notes:
I seem to mostly hear it reflecting off the windshield.
I have also listened with a 3/8 hose - the sound seems to be the same volume all the way up and down both cylinders, and cam valley - no louder or more noticeably different anywhere.
I have factory exhaust so there's very little exhaust noise - and when I listened for the noise - using the 3/8 hose, I started the bike inside the garage with the door closed - and I couldn't even hear the whooshing sound over the exhaust sound which was bouncing back from the door.
Any feedback appreciated. Maybe I just need to let the dealer hear it.
thanks in advance
I have to say that I have found real comfort in this thread - my 07 heritage (only 3k mi) makes this sound too... and to hear that many of you have the same sound makes me feel better!
Sounds almost exactly like my washing machine - just when the spin cycle starts. the same swishing sound as the washing machine gets up to speed.
I am a bit concerned however because I listened for a while at the dealership - as they started and moved a row of bikes - none of them had the sound at all.
Made me wonder if I'm hearing something bad.
Notes:
I seem to mostly hear it reflecting off the windshield.
I have also listened with a 3/8 hose - the sound seems to be the same volume all the way up and down both cylinders, and cam valley - no louder or more noticeably different anywhere.
I have factory exhaust so there's very little exhaust noise - and when I listened for the noise - using the 3/8 hose, I started the bike inside the garage with the door closed - and I couldn't even hear the whooshing sound over the exhaust sound which was bouncing back from the door.
Any feedback appreciated. Maybe I just need to let the dealer hear it.
thanks in advance