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Old 04-05-2005   #2 (permalink)
BigStripey
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That sounds a little bit off the mark to me :???:

If it is clanking, then it is either bottoming out badly or something is amiss.

I had as problem with my first Tiger, i took it back and to cut a long story short.....five visits later and a complete new headstock assembly, new top yoke, forks taken apart and checked....it still went clunk

Until one of the mechanics picked up a stethoscope and started going around the frame listening for where the sound was coming from. He started to work back from the forks themselves and found the culprit. .... an engine mounting bolt not done up to torque. It was allowing the engine to flex in the frame a fraction of a millimetre, causing the 'clank' Checked them all, nipped it back up to torque and it all went away.

Have you had crash bars fitted or touched the engine mounts lately? You never know it just could be that ??


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