This has nothing to do with your tranny, but I had a work truck with a really loud gear noise from the tranny.... I took off the floor pan, and the stick shift and top of the tranny and sat there eating bannana's... dropped in the peels from about 3 banana's. Then I put the thing back together. It took about 5 miles and the noise dropped to half of what it was before!!!!
Only problem was that I got some wierd smell of Banana bread and gear oil mixed.After about a month of that I replaced the tranny.......
Like I said, it dont pertain to your situation. and I did learn that banana peals can quiet down a noisy tranny. It dont fix the bad gears either.. but at least I could hear the radio again!!!
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Just wondering...did you take an air hose and blast air around the transmission and surrounding nooks and crannies to make sure that the tip is not outside the transmission?
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This has nothing to do with your tranny, but I had a work truck with a really loud gear noise from the tranny.... I took off the floor pan, and the stick shift and top of the tranny and sat there eating bannana's... dropped in the peels from about 3 banana's. Then I put the thing back together. It took about 5 miles and the noise dropped to half of what it was before!!!!
Only problem was that I got some wierd smell of Banana bread and gear oil mixed.After about a month of that I replaced the tranny.......
Like I said, it dont pertain to your situation. and I did learn that banana peals can quiet down a noisy tranny. It dont fix the bad gears either.. but at least I could hear the radio again!!!
Hehehehe...... Sawdust will quieten knocking main bearings, too...!
The best part was when I was settin' in the drivers seat eating banana's, the neighbor walks by and says "whats ya doin'? I hid the banana, and lifted the floorboard and pinted to the inside of the tranny(with the peels laying on the gears)... and I says" Someones been Monkeying with my truck" That was too funny......
I gotta admit .... I bet I never try this with my morotcycle tranny's
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Bad luck seems to follow me lately. Cut the tip off a mobil1 75w/90 oil and the tip, (plastic) fell directly into the tranny. I cannot see it in there. I will fish around in there with a hose hooked to my dry-vac. Will it hurt anything in the trans being plastic? I feel like a total fool! Thanks for any suggestions!!!!
Well, seems my buddy has a bit worse luck...He has a '93 fat boy (used to be mine) w/ 50,000 + miles. We were riding last night when he pulled over after hearing a nasty noise. It sounded like the primary tentioner came off & the chain was slapping around the inside of the primary. He decided (against my recommendation) to ride it 10 miles to my house so I could take a look at it. It got him back with the noise returning only three times at the beggining of the 10 Mile ride. We got back & I opened the primary & everything was fine. Then I checked to see if there was any tranny fluid & found the (die cast metal) dipstick was broken off of the filler cap.
I was hoping it would just be under the ramp/ball cover but, after reading these threads it soulds like it may be deeper in the tranny! I will pull it off tonight to see but, does anybody think it will be ok? I really think that it got chewed up into little pieces since the gears are of harder metal than the diecast dipstick.
I thought there was a thread or article in AIM on this happening? Anybody?
Well, I just read on another forum: "It happened to me. The dipstick fell off and my tranny ate it. I drained and refilled the tranny a few times and it has been fine ever since - about 20,000km ago. If it ain't broke - don't fix it, as they say. Well, it ain't broke yet - it works fine! The dipstick is monkey-metal and quite a delicacy for the tranny, so I hear. But, if I get me another such bike, I'll saw that dipstick off straight away."
My buddy wants to try this. I'm worried for him & worried about my old fat boy friend. It was my first Harley! Look waht he did to it
you mean everyone doesn't have a selection of fiber scopes available to look inside their trannies?
JP, if you were anywhere close to me I'd bring one and look for you.
Good luck.
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Well I drained the tranny last night. Can you say Goldschlager! The guy who referred to the dipstick as "monkey metal" was right on. It got TOTALLY eaten up by the gears.
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