05 fatboy front end clanking
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Hey everyone, I getting a clanking, almost solid sounding noise from the front end around the headlight. at first it was a tinny sound, but i got rid of that by takeing off the tree cover then puting it back on. Now i have a dense sound come from the same area...It only happends when i hit a bump in the road.
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Sounds like you have to retorque the front steering head nut. A very common thing, HD upped the torque from around 35 lbs to 100 lbs I believe because of this problem. I did mine before they changed the specs and set it at 70 lbs and the noise is gone now. Mine was finger tight when i heard the sound on a new bike.
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Nope, thats FT/lbs ,NOT inch pounds, go with the 70 lbs as I did. The later year manuals have upped the torque to 100 from the lower 35 ft/lbs because of this particular problem.
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Not to cause a scare or anything, but I watched a 2002 Fat Boy go into a head shake at about 50 mph this spring. The bike crossed the center lane and hit a truck head on. I was about 2 bike lengths behind him. I don’t know exactly what caused it to happen, because it happened so fast. I know it wasn’t a blowout. Don’t chance it. Get it fixed.
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I just took a look at the bike , I dont see a nut but i do have a allen bolt on the side were I thought the bolt would be...Is that clamp with the alen bolt I ned to tight'n up
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