damper click

Anyone with Lansdowne Damper heard the valves opening and closing?
I guy in Australia tells me this 15 gram alloy valve makes a louder noise moving than the engine/road noise and wind roar all together!!!

Well I have not had that problem with the dampers, all quite and working just great, maybe he has done sonething wrong when he set it up and I am from Aussie land and I push my bike pretty hard in all conditions.

Ashley

I have 2 x sets , 1 in the race bike and one in the Roadster, no noise that I can hear at any stage of my riding.
Maybe the wind, exhaust and whirring primary drive noise cover up the fork valve noises??
Regards Mike

A friend of mine is building a Triton with Landsdowne internals. When assembling them we noticed the thread on the compression damper side that fits in the large stanchion to hold it in the top yoke was damaged.
This part on a normal assembly is a solid metal rod but on the Landsdowne is a hollow tube as it carries the adjusting rod through the middle of it. The thread was not central to the tube bore and 3 or 4 turns of thread had broken off inside the nut as the wall thickness is very close to the depth of the thread.
These parts had never been fitted and in a phone call to Landsdowne they said this had happened before but only once or twice in many hundreds of units made. They questioned the amount of torque we put on the securing nut but the forks had not been fully assembled at that point.

So i would carefully strip the noisy forks an check the hollow damper rod has not sheared at its location in the top nut. The spring retaining nut would hold the spring to keep the rod in the extended position but it would knock on the top nut as the damping action holds back the spring momentarily as forks extend and compress.

Toppy, didnt know you are from Penistone ? The anti loose spring bore is just to house the spring, early versions did not have the counter bore ,and makes no difference to the operation , The early rods where 8mm shorter and the spring just sat on the end...5 years of race use and Duncan Fitchetts still perform without any issues.

john robert bould said:

Toppy, didnt know you are from Penistone ? The anti loose spring bore is just to house the spring, early versions did not have the counter bore ,and makes no difference to the operation , The early rods where 8mm shorter and the spring just sat on the end...5 years of race use and Duncan Fitchetts still perform without any issues.

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I am not from Penistone but my friend is so it seems we must know the same fella. He is going to use the damper as it is after checking it would be ok but the speed he goes at it will be a long while before he rides the finished bike. He has many toys and a short attention span for any of them.