Cam Chain Tensioner

[Owen Snell]

I am getting quite a bit of noise on the Left hand cylinder on start up on my 05 1200. It normally lasts for a few seconds but went on for about a minute today. There seems to have been a start up problem with the LHS cam chain tensioner on the 10** series oilheads, supposed to have been fixed on the 1200.

Does this part fail on the 1200s? I'm not really too bothered about a bit of noise on the warm up, more that this might indicate that the part will fail completely in the future.

 

[RickG]

Don't think the tensioner is an issue on the 1200 but this wouldn't mean a one-off problem is impossible, or that I might be quite wrong and it's been noted before. I've had one or two instances where it's taken a few seconds to quieten down, usually after an oil change. Some folks pre-fill the oil filter to prevent this. It's possibly a sticky tensioner as the engine ought to have full oil pressure in the system quite quickly after start-up?

 

[Owen Snell]

Don't think the tensioner is an issue on the 1200 but this wouldn't mean a one-off problem is impossible, or that I might be quite wrong and it's been noted before. I've had one or two instances where it's taken a few seconds to quieten down, usually after an oil change. Some folks pre-fill the oil filter to prevent this. It's possibly a sticky tensioner as the engine ought to have full oil pressure in the system quite quickly after start-up?

I was thinking it could be sticky, as long as it is just on start up then it shouldn't be a problem. Since there are no other replies, I assume nobody has had to replace this part before. Will keep an eye on it for now.