Got the Triumph back last Thursday.
Guys at Team Moto said that they took the sump off the bike and tensioned the mains and big ends and any else that should be tensioned.
When they did this the engine locked up and it couldn't be turned over by hand. It had them confused as to what they had done wrong.
They then replaced the main bearing shells and re tensioned the mains. All good. They said that from the factory the mains mustn't have been tensioned properly, so when they tensioned them correctly the out of round bearing shells locked up the engine.
Other than replacing the main bearing shells the only other thing its had is a complete clutch replacement.
Took it for a 500klm ride on Sunday. Well the bike feels totally different in some ways.
There is no vibration after the revs increase above 2500rpm. Doing 100klm per hour or faster is smooth and nice. It was bad before they pulled it down.
However at idle the clutch vibration noise is louder than it was before and at 2000rpm in either 3rd, 4th and fifth is no different. A simple, take the slack out of the clutch lever and the bike becomes smooth as a jap bike.
I'm going to see if Motolink would like to swap bikes for a ride so that I can compare. I'm also taking a mates Triumph 2010 rocket tourer for a ride and if it's hasn't got the issues mine has or is much better than mine, I'm going to go to trade it in for a 2012 model.
I don't see that complaining will get the bike fixed.
I do not blame Team Moto as their mechanics did a great job and there's not one mark on the bike. They looked after it when dismantling it.
I think the engine needs to be professionally balanced and replace the OEM clutch with an after market clutch from MTC engineering in the USA. This I think would improve the vibration no end, but costly.
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