Hey
New to the forums, hoping you guys can help me.
I have a suzuki sv650s k3 and recently i was overtaking a car and a sudden knocking came on.
I listened to the engine using the old screwdriver trick and it seemed to be louder where my cam chain is.
I read into it and found out that about 15k miles its common for an sv's cam tensioner to fail.. In this case would cause knocking / slapping by the chain against the casing right? My bikes done around 15.5k miles.
I've ordered a APE manual cam chain tensioner and im hoping this will save me a few hundred £.
The bike starts absoulutly fine, i've not had any loss of power at all.. but this noise is unbareable.. its embarrasing.
Hoping to goto beaulieu on it in 2 weeks and desperate to ride again im seeking some help.
Below 3k revs its hard to hear, above it becomes painfull.
I checked my oil and that was really low so im hoping it wasnt that
I've topped that up, surely the bike wouldnt even move if it was seizing?
Basically i really need to know if anyones had the same problem, if so was it the cam chain tensioner failing?
I bought a haynes manual and read the forums and its got all the tell tail signs.
Me and a friend loosened the tensioner and reset it which stopped the noise *we think*. I took it down the road and straight away started again.
Now, im sorry about the essay and would highly apprecihate any help.
Thanks guys, Rick.
