Driving me crazy. Is there a quick fix or do I need to take it back to the dealer? I thought about adjusting the rod a little tight one way or the other . FT

 

Well... if your talking about the rear shift lever connection, I had the same thing last year at about 21K. I could not get that connection to tighten up no matter what I did.. Tough one to get to.

I have the ESP so finally took it to the dealer and asked them to fix it. They ended up having to remove the inner to get it right. While there, they found that the inner primary bearing was also going out so they replaced that. Cost me $50.

 

Change it out to a heim joint one. It will be quiet and will not have any play in it.

 

Take a look at this thread and do a thorough inspection of the rear shifter:
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/touri...he-tranny.html

 

I put a wave washer on the inside of the front shaft noise gone

 

Good Idea thanks!

 

A wave washer? Is that the same thing as a lock washer, or???

 

Wave Washer

 

As you can tell from the replies, there are several places in this system prone to rattle. The front shaft to which the toe and heel shift levers are mounted has no built in "HOME" position. It is free to rest in any position allowed by the adjustment of the shift rod length. There is no "tight one way or the other" position. Your machine is too new to have a wear problem on the ball joint shift rod ends but anything is possible. All of the involved levers are on splined shafts and on my machine both the toe and heel shift levers and the lever on the transmission shift shaft were loose. If any or all of those levers are loose, tighten them yourself or have the dealer do it under a warrenty adjustment before the splines get stripped requiring replacement of the effected lever.

I have been told, but have never noticed them myself, that earlier machines had a grease zerk in the mounting for the front shaft (toe/heel shift lever shaft). That is no longer included by the factory and some guys have drilled and tapped a hole in the casting to install the grease fitting which allows periodic greasing without dis-assembly and helps prevent shaft rattle. There are writups for that in several forums.

I just installed the heim joints on my shift rod because of increasing instances of the ball joints separating unexpectedly usually on machines 4 years old or older. They are very nice when the time comes. Adding the heim joints to your present shift rod is about half as expensive as buying a chromy after market shift rod which comes with heim joints.

All of the above suggestions are excellent but to fix your problem on the first try will requiring your determining which part of the overall linkage is actually rattling or just going over it from one end to the other and tighten whatever you find is loose.

 

Yes,good idea to periodically grease the shaft.