Rattle Rattle Rattle

[BillyIndiana]

While riding yesterday I hear Rattle Rattle Rattle. It seems like keeping up with rattles is almost as bad as waxing a chain every 200 miles.

I am going to start going through the bolts again. Now I am not one to over torque things.

Thinking a toothpick spot of blue locktite is needed to stop having to check everything over and over.

Thoughts or ideas?

 

[Claviger]

I blue loctite pretty much everything, no reason to not use it. As you say, just a little is required.

 

[Jallen3.14]

Every bolt that comes off my bike gets either loctite* or anti-seize put on it before it goes back on.

*I use purple loctite - it can be broken without heat, but it sure as snot won't back out on its own.

 

[Tal]

Check under radiator cowl...there's more underneath the cowl if you take it off...also the very bottom bolts come loose..

 

[BillyIndiana]

Check under radiator cowl...there's more underneath the cowl if you take it off...also the very bottom bolts come loose..

Yup those are usually the issue. They are going to get some Locktite this time.

 

[cootertwo]

I second the radiator cowl stuff. I took it all of, on my 05. The little screen thing on one side, was rattling on mine, and drove me cwazy until I found it.