Camchain tensioners

[Santa-2512]

Recently the RH tensioner has started to clatter on start up.

Usually goes quiet within a few sec's

Today it stayed clattery until i blipped the throttle a few times.

Now i think it may be the source of my clattter when i'm riding.

Any ideas how you check here ok? are there uprated ones that can be fitted?

I know there's one on each side

Mart

 

[Bendy toy]

Park the bike overnight leaning to the right. If the cam chain is less noisy you'll know its a tensioner issue. But TBH they all do it and its not really a big deal. They can also sound like big end knock when the idle stepper motors are sticking or secondary coils are failing.

 

[SteveM]

I've recently changed by engine oil to fully synthetic Motul 7100 20w-50 which has improved the sound of the engine a lot. I change the oil pretty regularly anyway and moving from the semi-synthetic Motul 5100 10w-40 to the new stuff has made a really noticeable difference to the engine noise.