After I drive for a long/short, if I stop the engine ticking sound comes from the bikes engine, Can anyone tell me why it is.
Thanks in advance.
2007-03-03 17:17:05 · 13 answers · asked by RTHREEADMIN 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Motorcycles
Your engine and exhaust are made of different metals aluminium and steel. where there is contact of aluminium and steel the aluminium is shrinking 3 times that of steel when it's cooling down so it tends to creep over the steel, that's what causes the sound.
Don't worry it's normal.
2007-03-03 20:19:16 · answer #1 · answered by Curious George 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that's achievable that the valves must be adjusted, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that that's achievable that what you're listening to is cam chain noise, that's common on that make and style of bike. I dont undergo in strategies if there's a bolt to loosen the cam chain tensioner adjustment, yet while there is, with the bike no longer working, back off on the bolt and gently faucet the tensioner housing with a mild mallet as a results of fact the tensioner may be caught. If the valve adjustment and this would not paintings, that's achievable which you're gazing changing the cam chain, as that's stretched previous serviceability.
2016-10-02 08:39:33 · answer #2 · answered by koltay 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone here has it right. It's just the metal in the engine cooling down and contracting. No need to bring it in for service for this.
2007-03-04 04:40:02 · answer #3 · answered by BikerBob 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the engine is hot and just cooling down. I grew up on a farm with motor bikes and I can always remember them ticking when you turned them off, alot of cars do it aswell. I wouldn't worry about it.
2007-03-03 17:23:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is just your engine cooling down rapidly. Usually happens a lot after you ride it hard. I have a dirt bike and have been around 4-wheelers all of my life and they all do it.
2007-03-03 17:20:25 · answer #5 · answered by Answer-O-Matic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
RTH,
After you shut off the motor, friction and combustion ceases to heat the metal, therefore cooling it off considerably.
That 'ticking' is the sound of the metal contracting after expanding from the heat produced by friction and combustion.
2007-03-03 17:20:42 · answer #6 · answered by Wolfsburgh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You got heat sheilds on your pipes? If so that is the sound of the pipes cooling down and the heat shield cracking back into place (since they may expand a bit due to the heat)...
2007-03-04 13:55:55 · answer #7 · answered by DAVER 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thermodynamics. Physical stresses releasing as the metal cools.
2007-03-03 17:38:54 · answer #8 · answered by zuki1200 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just cooling down. Aluminum expands and contacts a lot with heat, so it is just shrinking back to normal size. No biggie.
2007-03-03 17:24:08 · answer #9 · answered by Fordman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's the engine cooling down. the metal is contracting.
2007-03-03 17:20:20 · answer #10 · answered by cool_hand_luke613 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋