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Hi, this is my first post here and I'm sure this forum is great as most forums I've joined have been. I don't own the bike but have done work on it.
The bike is a 83 goldwing 1100, here's the story, I was recommended by someone and had a call and was told what he needed done. I had no problem doing this. He said he had it to the dealer last year for a head gasket and asked them to do both but he said afterwords the right side was leaking and figured they only did the left and there was no sign of them doing so. So anyways his orders were to replace the right side head gasket and also do the timing belts and I suggested a thermostat and new exhaust gaskets.
He drops the bike off and I never heard it run as I was inside, I pushed the bike in and started to work on it. Everything went smoothly, the hardest part was removing the tank to refill the antifreeze. I started the bike and heard a noise on the right side which sounded like really loose valve or a chain. The owner showed up and said the noise wasn't there before. I rechecked the clearances andthey were fine. It was definetly the right side and listened with a scope and it sounds like in around the mechanical fuel pump. I ran it with the fuel pump removed from the camshaft but the noise is still there. I'm baffled, I rechecked the belts tensions, the bike is pumping oil like crazy, checked the valves and even closed up the gap to 1.5 thous and it made no difference, checked the exhaust for inner cracks, replaced the exhaust gaskets.
I then re asked the guy and he said the noise wasn't there, I told him because he said he had been running the bike with the leak for a while and it would run a bar hotter than normal and I explained that when I drained the rad only about 500 ml came out and it was extremly low and this could give a false reading on the temp guage becausethe sensor is by the thermostat and in my opinion there wasn't enough antifreeze in the bike and it could have overheated 1 or more times and caused the bike to get hot and cause damage to make this noise and he would have to live with this or spend alot to find the problem.
Anyone run into this noise or have any suggestions because I'm ready to give the bike back as the owner doesn't understand that it was nothing I did and if he wants to have someone else check it and find the problem and if it was to do with my work I'd happily refund the labour.
Hi, this is my first post here and I'm sure this forum is great as most forums I've joined have been. I don't own the bike but have done work on it.
The bike is a 83 goldwing 1100, here's the story, I was recommended by someone and had a call and was told what he needed done. I had no problem doing this. He said he had it to the dealer last year for a head gasket and asked them to do both but he said afterwords the right side was leaking and figured they only did the left and there was no sign of them doing so. So anyways his orders were to replace the right side head gasket and also do the timing belts and I suggested a thermostat and new exhaust gaskets.
He drops the bike off and I never heard it run as I was inside, I pushed the bike in and started to work on it. Everything went smoothly, the hardest part was removing the tank to refill the antifreeze. I started the bike and heard a noise on the right side which sounded like really loose valve or a chain. The owner showed up and said the noise wasn't there before. I rechecked the clearances andthey were fine. It was definetly the right side and listened with a scope and it sounds like in around the mechanical fuel pump. I ran it with the fuel pump removed from the camshaft but the noise is still there. I'm baffled, I rechecked the belts tensions, the bike is pumping oil like crazy, checked the valves and even closed up the gap to 1.5 thous and it made no difference, checked the exhaust for inner cracks, replaced the exhaust gaskets.
I then re asked the guy and he said the noise wasn't there, I told him because he said he had been running the bike with the leak for a while and it would run a bar hotter than normal and I explained that when I drained the rad only about 500 ml came out and it was extremly low and this could give a false reading on the temp guage becausethe sensor is by the thermostat and in my opinion there wasn't enough antifreeze in the bike and it could have overheated 1 or more times and caused the bike to get hot and cause damage to make this noise and he would have to live with this or spend alot to find the problem.
Anyone run into this noise or have any suggestions because I'm ready to give the bike back as the owner doesn't understand that it was nothing I did and if he wants to have someone else check it and find the problem and if it was to do with my work I'd happily refund the labour.
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