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Originally Posted by Craig380
When did it start rattling, and has it been doing it for long? A built-in feature of the SV engine is that mechanical noises come and go at random, with no rhyme or reason.
My own K6 with 20,000 miles will sometimes make almost no mechanical noise at idle. Other times it will make a little camchain rustling and ticking, and at other times it will make quite a pronounced tick. There's no pattern to it, and it never gets better or worse with fresh oil / oil with 3,500 miles up etc. It's just what happens when the engine has twice as many camchains and tensioners as most other bikes on the road.
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I agree.They seem to be a very,"Organic" engine<grin> with their own little idiosyncrasies.
If you read this recent thread on the US forum of a High Mileage SV
125,000 miles !!!
http://www.svrider.com/forum/showthread.php?t=378946
it's made me have very little concern about mine now at just over 19,000 miles
Pre-emptive oil/filter and coolant changes are the key IMHO with any motor.