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Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« on: May 17, 2009, 08:02:34 PM »
OK here's the rules, I give you a simple riddle and you solve it you get a chocolate fish!
Of course you do have to come over here to New Zealand at your own expense to collect said fish. :D

Q: What sounds like your exhaust is leaking at the headers but it isn't, appears to be from the top of the head area.
Does not affect the performance of the bike, just adds noise that shouldn't be there?



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« Last Edit: May 18, 2009, 02:50:24 PM by Hush »
I think the thing I most like about motorcycling is the speed at which my brain must process information at to avoid the numb skulls who are eating pies, playing the ukulele, applying make-up etc in the comfort of their airconditioned armchairs as they make random attempts to kill me!!!!!!!

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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2009, 09:14:24 PM »
OK here's the rules, I give you a simple riddle and you solve it you get a chocolate fish!
Of course you do have to come over here to New Zealand at your own expense to collect said fish. :D

Q: What sounds like your exhaust is leaking at the headers but it isn't, appears to be from the top of the head area.
Does not affect the performance of the bike, just adds noise that shouldn't be there?



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The fuel recollection tube or whatever its called off the back of the valve cover, usually connected by rubber hose to the airbox.

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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2009, 10:53:53 PM »
cam breather loose?
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2009, 10:54:55 PM »
Nah but I like your style.
Actually I solved this riddle myself a few minutes ago but I don't wanna spoil anyone's fun. ;D
I think the thing I most like about motorcycling is the speed at which my brain must process information at to avoid the numb skulls who are eating pies, playing the ukulele, applying make-up etc in the comfort of their airconditioned armchairs as they make random attempts to kill me!!!!!!!

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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2009, 10:55:32 PM »
Nah Burnboy, nice try though. :D
I think the thing I most like about motorcycling is the speed at which my brain must process information at to avoid the numb skulls who are eating pies, playing the ukulele, applying make-up etc in the comfort of their airconditioned armchairs as they make random attempts to kill me!!!!!!!

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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2009, 11:47:48 PM »
loose valve adjustment port?
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2009, 01:20:33 AM »
Loose spark plug?
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2009, 01:22:32 AM »
poorly assembled engine rattling apart...???   ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2009, 01:34:19 AM »
My first thought too Burnboy but nah not that.
I think the thing I most like about motorcycling is the speed at which my brain must process information at to avoid the numb skulls who are eating pies, playing the ukulele, applying make-up etc in the comfort of their airconditioned armchairs as they make random attempts to kill me!!!!!!!

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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2009, 01:35:28 AM »
Hmm haven't had that problem since my partner put the plugs back in...but no Mcpuffett. :)
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2009, 01:36:37 AM »
I presume you are dissing the Japanese assemblers Marti  :D, but nup solid as a rock.
I think the thing I most like about motorcycling is the speed at which my brain must process information at to avoid the numb skulls who are eating pies, playing the ukulele, applying make-up etc in the comfort of their airconditioned armchairs as they make random attempts to kill me!!!!!!!

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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2009, 01:38:41 AM »
Loose spark plug?


thought i had an exhaust leak in the saturn, drove it like that for 2 months. i hadnt tightened #4 sparkplug when i changed em at 440k  :D

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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2009, 01:51:50 AM »
My mechanic found #3 wasn't all the way in when he synced my carbs, partner slipped up there, I'll have to slap her....nah she'd probably like that far too much. :D
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« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2009, 01:53:28 AM »
arcing spark plug lead
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2009, 02:32:43 AM »
No Master Scunny not an arcing plug, I did turn the lights off in the shed looking for that though. :)
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2009, 05:11:27 AM »
What is a valve cover that's come loose??  I was trying to think of a smart a$$ answer that involved a sheep, but nothing came to mind  ;D

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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2009, 05:36:13 AM »
How about a leaking exhaust gasket?

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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2009, 01:31:08 PM »
Strike out Manjisaan, that aint it.... and for sheep see Australia, the big sandpit next door.
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #18 on: May 18, 2009, 01:33:06 PM »
Spent 2 hours yesterday tearing off my 4 into 2 pipes/lights/crash bar to replace exhaust gaskets AlanF, that didn't fix it. :D
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #19 on: May 18, 2009, 01:40:45 PM »
Vent tube off the bottom of the gas tank.
Or......a sneezing kitty hiding somewhere near your bike.
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #20 on: May 18, 2009, 02:01:04 PM »
My first guess would be valve adjustment maybe a touch loose 'n slappy, 2nd guess is something loose externally tapping as the engine idles, like a case guard or cover...

My last guess is an exhaust leak not from the header but at some other juncture within the pipe.

I dunno, but I have the same soft tappy sound, though my valves should all be in good adjustment, and my cam chain, too.
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #21 on: May 18, 2009, 02:04:47 PM »
worn muffler bearings?  ;D

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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #22 on: May 18, 2009, 02:06:42 PM »
You jest, but the mazda 929 lists for a muffler bearing on the exit of the muffler.
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #23 on: May 18, 2009, 02:08:17 PM »
that's funny.
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #24 on: May 18, 2009, 02:09:04 PM »
I wish I was kidding. The Beau's buell also had one on the OE muffler. It cracks me up.
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #25 on: May 18, 2009, 02:48:38 PM »
Muffler bearing? nah nah and nah.............OK you all give up and I get to eat my chocolate fish.
By the way for my American/Canuck cousins a chocolate fish is just that, a marshmellow fish shape coated in chocolate......I just wasn't sure you knew. :D

OK I solved the mystery by accident, I put the bike on the main stand and set it to idle, I'd done the pipes and checked everything that could rattle so badly, the bike its self was running great just that annoying loud rattle.
Remembering something Kit once said about adjusting the cam chain while the bike was running (Mlinders idea I think) I put a socket on the cam chain adjuster and backed the nut off 3 turns............Dead silence..........eh....WTF?
I'm still unsure as to how the cam chain could make such a bad noise as to fool me into thinking it was the exhaust and I only adjusted (well thought I did) it last week when I did the advancer service.
But there you go, all that noise from a rattling cam chain, it was sooooo bad I could hear it even when riding..............I know you're gonna want to kill me for putting you through that ha ha so I'm going for a ride now. ;D ;D
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #26 on: May 18, 2009, 02:55:26 PM »
A boogered up tach cable?


edit: ahhhhh!!! cam chain was my next guess  ;D
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #27 on: May 18, 2009, 03:03:50 PM »
I wish I was kidding. The Beau's buell also had one on the OE muffler. It cracks me up.


I bet those fancy buells don't have a blinker fluid Reservoir.
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #28 on: May 18, 2009, 03:11:16 PM »
 :D
Probably not.
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #29 on: May 18, 2009, 03:12:15 PM »
Strike out Manjisaan, that aint it.... and for sheep see Australia, the big sandpit next door.

but i understand that theres more sheep than people in NZ hush

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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #30 on: May 18, 2009, 03:15:18 PM »
Hey, Hush, back the cam adjuster nut off 3 turns with the bike running........OOOHHH!
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #31 on: May 18, 2009, 03:23:35 PM »
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but i understand that theres more sheep than people in NZ hush

shhhhh, don't tell Hush  ;D

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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #32 on: May 18, 2009, 05:57:33 PM »
Yes but we KNOW they are sheep, the Aussies think they are all blondes. ;D
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Re: Hush's chocolate fish competition #2
« Reply #33 on: May 18, 2009, 06:03:59 PM »
Hey, Hush, back the cam adjuster nut off 3 turns with the bike running........OOOHHH!


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