TE 449 NOISY CLUTCH

[Mr Ford40]

Guys/Girls I have a noisy clutch when it's in neutral it's noisy ,I've tryed different oils problem still there, Pull the clutch lever in sound goes away, I bleed the clutch just fitted a Clarke ultra Light clutch [one finger]but the basket is still noisy.

Is there any way to get rid of the noise?

DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE THIS PROBLEM ?

MINE 2012 TE449 2000K ON THE CLOCK

 

[reaganbart]

Yeah mate, same problem here. Never tried to fix it though.

 

[Mr Ford40]

Great pleace you live I have worked there a few times, Young , Wang. Nice area.

They would be quite motors if that noise was not there.

 

[danny318]

Thats just how it is. Not a problem.

 

[reaganbart]

Yeah not a bad little place, where abouts did you work in young?

Yeah I just figured that I must just be how it is, because no problems just noise.

 

[Dirtdame]

When straight cut gears have little or no load on them, such as the primary gear and the one on the clutch, they will tend to clatter. Once they have a load on them, the space between the gear teeth faces causing that chatter is closed up, and everything gets quiet. I had a an old trail bike that had helical gears, which made the bike sound very smooth and quiet in neutral, but straight cut gears will tranfser power the best, so everybody uses them, these days.

 

[jasonmt]

Guys/Girls I have a noisy clutch when it's in neutral it's noisy ,I've tryed different oils problem still there, Pull the clutch lever in sound goes away, I bleed the clutch just fitted a Clarke ultra Light clutch [one finger]but the basket is still noisy.

Is there any way to get rid of the noise?

DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE THIS PROBLEM ?

MINE 2012 TE449 2000K ON THE CLOCK

The 449/511's have the clutch on the non reduction side of the primary so they are also spinning 2 - 2.5 times faster than a clutch on a bike with the clutch on the reduction side of the primary, the "noisy" clutch seems to be typical of both of my 449's and I have one with 37km and one with way, way more than that and they both make similar clutch "noise".

 

[huskylove]

God you should listen toy bucket of bolts ducati. It is all stock with a closed cover and that dry clutcj is louder than the exhaust at idle!

 

[Mr Ford40]

Yeah not a bad little place, where abouts did you work in young?

I work up through that area once in a while when you guys have lots of faults. I work for Telstra. Dont hold that against me. But in young not just one place every where around there.

 

[Mr Ford40]

Thats just how it is. Not a problem.

Yes my other bike was is little noisy then got alittle better as time went on. I wanted to make sure we all had the same noise.

 

[Dangermouse449]

It's just letting you know it's still there when you need it, it's got your back!

 

[Tinken]

It is a lot quieter with the addition of oil. Going from Husky's 800cc to +^1150cc makes a huge difference. Once the oil warms up, it will thin/expand and quiet the clutch. My KTM RFS basket is horrible, but it's okay once my 0W40 is hot and thin.

 

[Mr Ford40]

Tinken Just waiting on the kit to arrive from you guys then will fit. Hopefully things will be a little quite down below.

 

[Tinken]

Oh, okay. Yes, it will really quiet things down.

 

[Mr Ford40]

Yes I hope I will drop the oil down to 0w-40 at present i've dropped it down to 15w-40.

 

[HusqRacr]

How noisy is it? Just to be safe, pull the cover and make sure none of the pressure plate bolts are backing out. Normally I wouldn't say this but last week a 511 came in and 2 of the bolts had backed out enough to hit the clutch cover. And then one eventually fell out and locked up the rear wheel

 

[Motosportz]

When straight cut gears have little or no load on them, such as the primary gear and the one on the clutch, they will tend to clatter. Once they have a load on them, the space between the gear teeth faces causing that chatter is closed up, and everything gets quiet. I had a an old trail bike that had helical gears, which made the bike sound very smooth and quiet in neutral, but straight cut gears will tranfser power the best, so everybody uses them, these days.

Very true but on this bike the clutch actually is on the end of the crank with no gears. They all sound like that and is probably just the plates rattling around in the hub. These clutches seems very robust and as they are not drastically gear reduced they can be (and are) much smaller and still stronger. Its a cool design IMHO. It does make the engine slightly wide though.

 

[Dangermouse449]

Very true but on this bike the clutch actually is on the end of the crank with no gears. They all sound like that and is probably just the plates rattling around in the hub. These clutches seems very robust and as they are not drastically gear reduced they can be (and are) much smaller and still stronger. Its a cool design IMHO. It does make the engine slightly wide though.

Not sure about the current crop, but a few years ago now the WRC rally cars all had clutches geared up 2 times faster than engine speed.
The mechanical advantage enabled them to halve the size of the clutch & reduce weight & still keep the clutch strong enough to cope with something like 500Nm of torque.
It's a cool idea, more bikes could use it.

 

[Mr Ford40]

Tried a litre of oil and things were not as noisey but of course out the oil came . Just waiting on the full oil kit.

 

[Mr Ford40]

How noisy is it? Just to be safe, pull the cover and make sure none of the pressure plate bolts are backing out. Normally I wouldn't say this but last week a 511 came in and 2 of the bolts had backed out enough to hit the clutch cover. And then one eventually fell out and locked up the rear wheel

Yeah checked the clutch all is good.