I'm pretty sure this is it. Great 4 days of riding up North , no rain , just got back into town. The rattle would shift from leftside to rightside occasionally. I forgot to readjust the front isolastic after the engine rebuild. I left clearances very open and I will peel back the gaitors , grease up the shims and tighten up clearances tomorrow. Tonight rest.
Oil change as soon as I got home. 500 or so Kms.
Running like a Swiss watch. I know it's isolastics vernier front mount now but it's getting dark now... so tomorrow inspect , grease and adjust front and back iso's. Used no oil after dipstick check after more than 500 Kms. up to Georgian bay and back. Changed oil hot on return and only a tiny bit of tiny metal flecks stuck to magnetic drain plug. As expected after a rebuild so all good.
The Dave Taylor headsteady makes it travel so straight and true . But I'll pull the tank and lube the Heim Joints with a few drops of thick 140 Weight tomorrow. Both front and rear Iso's will get grease , likely dielectric or synthetic as well and of course re-gapped with a feeler gauge , tightened down to spec. with the support bolts and checked for gaps/ play again. Vernier MK 111 stuff.
So would I, then I would check my hearing aid batteries!
Yes I will do this next step. Spent the last hour checking isolastics and they seemed fine , .008 total clearance and greased up with dielectric . So it's something else such as head casting flash touching pushrods or..protruding head gasket in tunnels .. I'll use a flashlight to see in and hearing too. The danger is getting my face too close to the hot pipes to hear.
