Help front end clunk
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Cruiser
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From: Hinton, Alberta
Help front end clunk
I did a fork oil change and put S/E heavy in went well. Took the bike out and now there is a definite clunk on pot hole or bumps thought it might be the heavier oil making the clunk from the steering head bearing.. I did a steering head adjustment twice and I know the steering head is tight, but i still get the clunk. Could it be the forks ?? any help would be nice, I am at a lose.
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I'm subscribing to this thread same thing happened to me. Over the winter changed the fork oil out to the SE heavy and now when i go over railway tracks in town or just the lip of the driveway I get a clunk on the front end that wasn't there before. Hopefully someone can chime in and figure this one out for us!
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+1 did the same thing.
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Wow, three with clunky forks after changing to SE Heavy. Mine don't clunk, bottom, or do anything other than give improved control. I would really like to know the cause of this problem! If any of you change back to Type E or use Dawg's mix, please report back the result.
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From: Hinton, Alberta
clunk
I have adjusted the neck bearing 4-5 times and triple check it all with same results. I taped and removed any thing that could clunk and road with out the fairing cover or the radio in and it all seems to be from the triple tree area ( bearing/forks ) WTF is going on. I am 180 Mile from stealer I will go back to E oil when I get some. Or I may change out the neck bearings.