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| Theazrp | | Set |  | | Reg. Date | : | 14/10/2010 | | Posts | : | 111 | | Location | : | Gold Canyon, Arizona, United States |
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| | Posted : 20 Dec 2010 - 01:08 Post title : dead at 2900 miles? | | | they had to come and get my bird yesterday. On the way home the other day we stopped after about 90 mi. for a break (well truthfully we stopped to get some beer). Off the bike for about 10 minutes or so and so it was still warm. Back on the bike and into 1st gear and hardly even at walking speed, and there were a couple of LOUD rapping noises from the engine and she died. I wasn't sure what to do so I sat a bit and started it up again and it started up fine and I began to limp home (only 2miles). It died 3 more times on the way home (lots of popping in the exhaust . Not exactly sure how to describe the noise to of you technicians , but I would have to say it sounded like something snapped in there. I love this bike but I'm really kinda pissed off at her right now. Oh well, still under warranty.
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| DizzE | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 12/07/2010 | | Posts | : | 3,141 | | Location | : | Sunnyvale, CA, United States |
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| | Posted : 20 Dec 2010 - 01:27 Post title : Re: dead at 2900 miles? (Re: Theazrp) | | |
DUDE !?!!! Hope nothing is truly broken - good to have warranty.
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| zolti | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 23/03/2010 | | Posts | : | 3,127 | | Location | : | newcastle , United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 20 Dec 2010 - 20:13 Post title : Re: dead at 2900 miles? (Re: DizzE) | | | there is talk of a dealer here offering to extend the manufactures warranty for a few quid, wasnt thinking about it then but i might now.
sorry to hear of your plight, bright side though u did get home in a fashion.
hope its a quick fix thea
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| Fordster | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 16/10/2009 | | Posts | : | 365 | | Location | : | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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| | Posted : 21 Dec 2010 - 01:58 Post title : Re: dead at 2900 miles? (Re: Theazrp) | | | | Theazrp wrote: .....there were a couple of LOUD rapping noises from the engine.....but I would have to say it sounded like something snapped in there. |
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LOUD rapping noises??? Snapped??? Uhhh... like a camshaft?? Uh oh. Sounds eerily familiar. Keep us posted.
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| BaltoThunder | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 16/10/2009 | | Posts | : | 43 | | Location | : | United States |
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| | Posted : 21 Dec 2010 - 02:36 Post title : Re: dead at 2900 miles? (Re: Theazrp) | | | This could be as simple as the map hose coming off....when I did mine it would make these weird noises at idle, almost sounds like a really loud abrupt sneeze....decel popping was really bad and it wouldn't idle on its own. If you could get it to start again, I doubt anything big snapped or broke....
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| Fordster | | Set | | | | Reg. Date | : | 16/10/2009 | | Posts | : | 365 | | Location | : | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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| | Posted : 21 Dec 2010 - 03:35 Post title : Re: dead at 2900 miles? (Re: BaltoThunder) | | | I sincerely hope that's the case. Would hate to think there will be more camshafts that look like mine did. Words like "loud rapping noises" and "snapped" bring back bad memories... but mine never died, and I didn't get any unusual popping on decel so hopefully you're right.
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| Theazrp | | Set | | | Reg. Date | : | 14/10/2010 | | Posts | : | 111 | | Location | : | Gold Canyon, Arizona, United States |
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| | Posted : 22 Dec 2010 - 23:43 Post title : Re: dead at 2900 miles? (Re: BaltoThunder) | | | You are dead on! That's exactly what it was. Having read descriptions of the broken cam shafts, I was mightily worried because that noise was LOUD and my immediate thought was okay something important just broke. However since it started and got me home, I thought maybe nothing is truly broken. Triumph took care of it and I'm up and running again, so all is good.
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