another stolen klr

[bikershrink]

After washing, my A19 has developed a mysterious clicking sound. It appears to come from the front end, and be at a rate of once per wheel revolution. Occurs in gear or coasting with clutch in or in neutral. Checked for anything hitting a spoke, see nothing. Checked front brake caliper. Little stiff on it's studs, but does not appear to be the source of any sound. I think I remember the speedo working fine, but I wondered if this sound could be coming from inside the front hub? Any thoughts or experiences greatly appreciated. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Guy B. Young II]

How did you wash it? If a pressure washer, or a hose with high water pressure, you may have 'injected' some surrounding dirt/grit into the bearings and the balls are trying to roll over it. ????? Guy -----Original Message----- From: bikershrink After washing, my A19 has developed a mysterious clicking sound. It appears to come from the front end, and be at a rate of once per wheel revolution. Occurs in gear or coasting with clutch in or in neutral. Checked for anything hitting a spoke, see nothing. Checked front brake caliper. Little stiff on it's studs, but does not appear to be the source of any sound. I think I remember the speedo working fine, but I wondered if this sound could be coming from inside the front hub? Any thoughts or experiences greatly appreciated.

[Arden Kysely]

Have you isolated the sound to one wheel or the other? Mine makes a clicking sound when the side knobs on my rear TKC-80 hit my slightly bent lower chain-guard thingy. You might also have something stuck under the countershaft cover, easy enough to check. Any chance your speedo cable is coming loose at the hub? I'd suggest putting the bike on a crate or stand and rotating the wheels independently to isolate the noise. __Arden --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, bikershrink wrote:

> After washing, my A19 has developed a mysterious clicking sound. > > It appears to come from the front end, and be at a rate of once per

wheel revolution.

> Occurs in gear or coasting with clutch in or in neutral. > > Checked for anything hitting a spoke, see nothing. > Checked front brake caliper. Little stiff on it's studs, > but does not appear to be the source of any sound. > > I think I remember the speedo working fine, > but I wondered if this sound could be coming from inside the front

hub?

> > Any thoughts or experiences greatly appreciated. > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Bogdan Swider]

> > I think I remember the speedo working fine, > but I wondered if this sound could be coming from inside the front hub?

Check your speedometer drive. There's a plate in there called a receiver that can get bent when you take the wheel on and off. Bogdan

[Thor Lancelot Simon]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:07:02AM -0800, Gregg Wagner wrote:

> > The '04 that I had been collecting parts for (because it was vandalized > two weeks ago) has now been stolen. I am in Sunnyside, Queens in New > York City. I had no real idea that there is such a hunger for these > bikes here! It was missing the seat (I have it in my apartment), and > the reg/rect, so if anyone in NYC sees such a bike let me know.

Have you double-checked that the police or sanitation department tow units didn't grab it? They have a tendency to grab obviously vandalized bikes as "abandoned" -- there's a whole row of them in the Manhattan car impound over on the West Side, for example, some of which I recognized last time I was there as bikes that actually _were_ abandoned on the street in my neighborhood (in fact, I saw the police tow unit break two Kryptonite chains to take one of them away; it was pretty impressive and made a _lot_ of noise). Often they seem to treat a missing seat as a sign that the bike is abandoned and being stripped. If it was parked on the sidewalk, in *theory* the Sanitation guys are the ones who might have it; on the street, the cops. But it is worth checking both places if you haven't already. Thor