A little nervous now

[raytracer]

I installed the triple K&N's and installed the dynojet 02 eliminator a week ago.
Loaded the appropriate tune and everything seemed fine. Until today. All of a sudden, sitting at a light, I smell what I think is an electrical smell. At first I thought maybe it was my rear brakes burning because I had tried to adjust my pedal recently and thought maybe I had cranked it down such that it was riding the brake, but I'm not sure that is it.
Thats bad enough, but then when I'm about 10 miles from home I hear a knocking, rattling noise coming from the right side of the engine. I couldn't really describe it as a paint can rattle. At first I thought maybe one of the header heat sheilds had come loose, but they're fine.

The bike seems to be running great, but I suppose I'll have to take it to the dealer to check it. Kinda sux when I had 3000 trouble free miles, and then start trying to do some mods on it and have possible problems crop up.

It's a 2007.

 

[REGULATOR]

what pipes do you have?

did you check if anything had melted on them?

did you look for any loose wires ( gotta ask)

check engine light? if somethign was wrong with 02 settigns...your check engine light would come on...

I accidentally turned mine back on after removign it... bike ran fine except for an occaisional stumble and low idle... but teh check engine light came on

 

[raytracer]

Man, am I relieved (and an idiot). I wouldn't have been able to sleep good tonight thinking I f'd something up on my bike.

Back when I removed the 02 sensor, I plugged the hole with an M18 oil drain plug.
This had started backing out and is what was making the rattling sound. The burning smell was the rubber washer that genius me left on the stupid thing. It was so melted that it had almost turned to ash.

I cleaned it all up, put some loctite on the plug and snugged it down hard. Problem solved - rocket runs great!

Now if Sam would just ever answer his email... :cry:

 

[raytracer]

Is there a loctite product that will withstand exhaust temps? I have never seen one. What did you use?

Red loctite. It probably won't help, I just put it on there because. Hopefully it backed out due to the presence of the rubber washer and will be good now that it's gone.

 

[T-tech]

Is there a loctite product that will withstand exhaust temps? I have never seen one. What did you use?

We use copper sealing washers, and crank the plug down real tight. Haven't had a plug come loose yet, and that goes for the Ducatis we deal with, which vibrate as much as a Harley

 

[owl]

Nice to be able to solve a problem so quickly & easily Ray.

 

[raytracer]

Nice to be able to solve a problem so quickly & easily Ray.

Yeah, you're telling me. It was scary too because the noise and the smell made it seem like the engine was about to blow up. It wasn't an obvious rattling sound and seemed to be coming from inside the engine. I was freaked.

 

[owl]

I'm not surprised - would have freaked anyone :shock: