Firestorm drive problem

Firestorm drive problem

Author
Discussion

robbocop33

Original Poster:

1,184 posts

106 months

Wednesday 10th February 2016
quotequote all
Not had the bike long so just feeling my way round it sorting little niggles.Basically you know if you were driving along at say 30mph and you were in say 5th,6th gear,the transmission would start to clunk wanting to change down a gear?Well thats the sort of sound i get?.
Say im driving along in 3rd gear along behind traffic in a town with a steady throttle,it will clunk then,when i know im in a correct gear for road speed,i just rev through or by instinct,go for a lower gear and it will still do it??
First thing i thought was slack as fk chain,and guess what?,the chain was slack as fk.
Tightened it up no improvement?Bike pulls away from idle perfect,changes gear without problem.pulls cleanly under acceleration etc,it's odd?
Could the clutch do this?Maybe a basket wear problem or something?


trickywoo

11,705 posts

229 months

Wednesday 10th February 2016
quotequote all
Sounds fueling related. When was the last time the carbs / throttle bodies were balanced?

Could also be a fecked cush drive.

ian996

837 posts

110 months

Wednesday 10th February 2016
quotequote all
Worn Cush Drives?

robbocop33

Original Poster:

1,184 posts

106 months

Wednesday 10th February 2016
quotequote all
Good call about the cush drives,always forget about them!Well except for when i was into old 70,s musclebikes.
Fuelling ofcourse might be another thing,i'll be getting around to balancing things when i get the time anyway in due course.Thanks for the replies!

Weso

446 posts

203 months

Wednesday 10th February 2016
quotequote all
Sounds a bit like my old Firestorm.
They all do that sir.
Along with the massive clonk going from 1st to 2nd.
Good bike's though loved mine.

grahamr88

421 posts

172 months

Wednesday 10th February 2016
quotequote all
Have a search or ask on VTR1000.org, it's a really useful resource.

sjtscott

4,215 posts

230 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
quotequote all
OP are you sure its not as simple as you're using too higher gear for too low revs/road speed given its a 1000 twin?
Just asking, having had 1000 twin myself (Falco) it really didn't like being laboured below a certain sets of revs.. I actually dropped the gearing (-1 on the front sprocket) to improve things around town.

catso

14,771 posts

266 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
quotequote all
Weso said:
Sounds a bit like my old Firestorm.
They all do that sir.
Along with the massive clonk going from 1st to 2nd.
Good bike's though loved mine.
1st gear always clonked on mine too and there always seemed too big a jump in ratio from 1st to second which made the shift feel worse.

They can be a bit 'spluttery' at low RPM due to the big carbs not working too well at low speeds, keep the revs up and it'll be better...

underwhelmist

1,852 posts

133 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
quotequote all
sjtscott said:
OP are you sure its not as simple as you're using too higher gear for too low revs/road speed given its a 1000 twin?
This, 5th or 6th sounds like way too high a gear for 30mph.

Mr2Mike

20,143 posts

254 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
quotequote all
underwhelmist said:
This, 5th or 6th sounds like way too high a gear for 30mph.
The OP isn't doing 30mph in 5th or 6th, he was using that as an example of the kind of noise his bike is making.

underwhelmist

1,852 posts

133 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
quotequote all
Mr2Mike said:
The OP isn't doing 30mph in 5th or 6th, he was using that as an example of the kind of noise his bike is making.
Ah, yeah fair enough. Reading comprehension fail on my part.

sjtscott

4,215 posts

230 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
quotequote all
underwhelmist said:
Mr2Mike said:
The OP isn't doing 30mph in 5th or 6th, he was using that as an example of the kind of noise his bike is making.
Ah, yeah fair enough. Reading comprehension fail on my part.
OPs post required reading a number of times to understand full comprehension of what was actually being said clearly not just myself.

Is clunking like he's in too high a gear I get that now.