SuzukiSavage.com - Engine rattle at cold start

Welcome, Guest. Please Login or Register :: View Members

SuzukiSavage.com › General Category › Rubber Side Down! › Engine rattle at cold start

(Moderators: verslagen1, Dave, Serowbot)

‹ Previous topic | Next topic ›

Pages: 1

Engine rattle at cold start (Read 64 times)

Redryder652 Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 179 Bergen County, New jersey Gender:	Engine rattle at cold start 10/27/16 at 14:02:35 My bike makes a rattle, only at startup for about two seconds and then goes away. This only happens at cold start, if I start it after its warmed, there's no noise, should I be worried about this? Also, I used to run a motorcycle oil stabilizer, and I never got that rattle. Thanks, RedRyder
Back to top	« Last Edit: 10/27/16 at 15:40:45 by Redryder652 » IP Logged

Rodger Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 256	Re: Engine rattle at child start Reply #1 - 10/27/16 at 14:53:36 When you start it up, is it on the sidestand? The Savage gurus here recommend having the bike upright, since the cam lobes run in an oil "bathtub" and running engine while on the sidestand might starve the cam for oil.
Back to top	IP Logged

Redryder652

Full Member

Offline

SuzukiSavage.com
Rocks!

Posts: 179
Bergen County, New jersey
Gender: male

Re: Engine rattle at child start
Reply #2 - 10/27/16 at 15:12:12

Rodger wrote on 10/27/16 at 14:53:36:

When you start it up, is it on the sidestand? The Savage gurus here recommend having the bike upright, since the cam lobes run in an oil "bathtub" and running engine while on the sidestand might starve the cam for oil.

Rodger, no, when I start it up I put a brick under the kickstand, so it's just about vertical. I have read about side stand running, and since then I don't do it.

IP Logged

Mr.T Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 55 Tega Cay, SC Gender:	Re: Engine rattle at child start Reply #3 - 10/27/16 at 15:37:10 It may be the bendix on the starter motor hitting the starter gear. If so, it would be worth removing it and cleaning it up.
Back to top	Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill IP Logged

Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Engine rattle at cold start Reply #4 - 10/27/16 at 18:16:44 Are you sure it's the engine? The speedo tends to rattle. A cold engine is not running very well for a few seconds and may shake the bike causing something else to rattle.
Back to top	There's no problem that a full tank of gas and a sunny day can't fix! 2008 S40, Rotella T 15W-40 w/ZDDP added, Dyna, 140/90-15, Battery Tender Jr., Seat lift, #52.5/150/3 washers, Raptor IP Logged

Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Online SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 17802 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: Engine rattle at child start Reply #5 - 10/28/16 at 03:19:44 Mr.T wrote on 10/27/16 at 15:37:10: It may be the bendix on the starter motor hitting the starter gear. If so, it would be worth removing it and cleaning it up. There is not a "Bendix" on the starter. There is a large gear on the crankshaft that has a roller clutch....nothing in the system would rattle.
Back to top	Someday I will be old......But not today! IP Logged

Pages: 1

‹ Previous topic | Next topic ›

« Home