2012 Kawasaki VN 1700 Voyager sounds like a valve tap coming from Engine. It will go away after riding and warming up. Is it a valave tap or something else?
When the bike starts it makes a " tick, tick tick" sound, valve tap sound I believe. I have heard that is normal but I don't think so. It will go away when real hot and warmed up..How do I investigate/ trouble shoot to determine the problem??
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Answers & Comments
Hi,the sound you are getting is normaly to do with the camshaft cleerance between the camshaft lob and the shim on the valve,if when the sound gose away when the engine is hot its the gap getting smaller due to exspantion,I would leave it unless you can hear the sound when engine is hot,if you cant live with it the whay it is the only way to sort it out is to get a works manual and do the valve cleerances,which means takeing the rocker cuver off and checking the gaps between each lobe and shim and replacing with the right shim to make the gap right,hope this was some help.