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Could be, but he also posted in other forums so maybe he got it solved elsewhere.
Geniuses that think a guy coming to a forum to ask a question, must have a subversive motive.
If you can't find an obvious problem with your repair, you need to backtrack over your work, first. We are all susceptible to mistakes ( yes, even those of us who did it for a living). Sometimes, you'll save a lot of grief, just starting over.
I will say, my first thought was the wheel alignment being off.
If you made no mistakes, you might find the problem simply by accident, too.
Here's my weird story that illustrates this:
One time, I couldn't find a problem with my bike (I was a mechanic, but never a mc mechanic). As I tore stuff apart, I found some melted, loose rubber behind my sprocket/ pulley. I freaked, and searched my drive belt entirely - no problem. I opened up the housing which involved some exhaust and loosening, so at this point I was just exploring. Then I saw it...a small metal hook, lodged into the inner recess of the pulley housing. At first glance, you only saw the rubber. Then I realized what I was looking at. Have you ever seen those cheap rubber 'Bunjy style' tie down cords truckers use? Have you ever seen a torn one laying in the road ? Yep. I must've run over one without noticing. Instead of clanging around or making a noise right away, somehow the darn thing flipped up and followed my drive belt into the sprocket housing and lodged perfectly behind the pulley. The hook did another strange thing. It caught and lodged perfectly in a corner of the housing, totally free from rubbing the puller. I couldn't have configured it into there, if I had been trying. Don't know how long it was there, but it was entirely hidden from view without disassembling and removing the drive belt! That's how this "genius" figured out that those weird little black specks, a strange rubbing sound when pushing the bike by hand now and then ( no not the brake pads rubbing), and slight rubber smell sometimes were! No damage was done, and the rubbing went away as the pulley shoved the little piece of Bunjy cord back, up behind the pulley. The hook never moved, but was still attached enough to hold the rubber in there, so it could never be spit out. It took some wiggling and cussing, but I was able to work that hook and what was left of that stupid piece of Bunjy cord out from behind the pulley, without having to remove the pulley.
Everything was good, and no damage to anything. Sometimes it's best to stop puzzling, and start wrenching.
Problem solved, and who would have guessed.
I will say, my first thought was the wheel alignment being off.
If you made no mistakes, you might find the problem simply by accident, too.
Here's my weird story that illustrates this:
One time, I couldn't find a problem with my bike (I was a mechanic, but never a mc mechanic). As I tore stuff apart, I found some melted, loose rubber behind my sprocket/ pulley. I freaked, and searched my drive belt entirely - no problem. I opened up the housing which involved some exhaust and loosening, so at this point I was just exploring. Then I saw it...a small metal hook, lodged into the inner recess of the pulley housing. At first glance, you only saw the rubber. Then I realized what I was looking at. Have you ever seen those cheap rubber 'Bunjy style' tie down cords truckers use? Have you ever seen a torn one laying in the road ? Yep. I must've run over one without noticing. Instead of clanging around or making a noise right away, somehow the darn thing flipped up and followed my drive belt into the sprocket housing and lodged perfectly behind the pulley. The hook did another strange thing. It caught and lodged perfectly in a corner of the housing, totally free from rubbing the puller. I couldn't have configured it into there, if I had been trying. Don't know how long it was there, but it was entirely hidden from view without disassembling and removing the drive belt! That's how this "genius" figured out that those weird little black specks, a strange rubbing sound when pushing the bike by hand now and then ( no not the brake pads rubbing), and slight rubber smell sometimes were! No damage was done, and the rubbing went away as the pulley shoved the little piece of Bunjy cord back, up behind the pulley. The hook never moved, but was still attached enough to hold the rubber in there, so it could never be spit out. It took some wiggling and cussing, but I was able to work that hook and what was left of that stupid piece of Bunjy cord out from behind the pulley, without having to remove the pulley.
Everything was good, and no damage to anything. Sometimes it's best to stop puzzling, and start wrenching.
Problem solved, and who would have guessed.
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