Not good. I concur with Mav we need name of manufacturer. I already know it is not Assault as I have one of those.
Weird rear end noise
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It's gotta be frustrating when 2 or 3 things go wrong on every single ride. I'm just glad mine is solid!
This is the reason i am keeping mine NA and avoiding most mods..... it sucks to be hundreds of miles away from civilization and experience a breakdown.
Heck i bought like 20 rolls of the 5050 LEDs and decided to not even install those.
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Well first of all I moved the brackets to show what happened for the picture. They were in their normal position which made it hard to spot. The thin wall pipe broke off right above the welds. Must really be a lot of vibration going on back there. It’s only been on a few months
Second, it wasn’t a continuos noise. And I really wasn’t expecting to see both pipes broke off.
Third I have the tire pressure monitors installed so I knew I want losing air...
Forth, I bought it on eBay...could be a Chinese knock off..
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Not good. I concur with Mav we need name of manufacturer. I already know it is not Assault as I have one of those.
I have already broke the swing arm bracket twice on my Assault. Thinking about not even putting it back on.
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This is the reason i am keeping mine NA and avoiding most mods..... it sucks to be hundreds of miles away from civilization and experience a breakdown.
Heck i bought like 20 rolls of the 5050 LEDs and decided to not even install those.And you're giving those away to whoever pays shipping when....?
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And you're giving those away to whoever pays shipping when....?
LOL, the boss has already claimed them for christmas decorations.......
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So it’s fixed.
Used 12” long 1/2” bolts. Cut them to right length welded to the old attachments and bolted the bottoms in holes I drilled in the plate. Thinking the bolts will have some play to be a little more forgiving. Had to bend the short bolt to fit correctly. -
titanium gray is just too fast for mere mortal parts...they can’t take it..
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I think it has something to do with maintaining and cleaning our vehicles also. I clean something on mine ever time out and if I heard a noise from the rear I would keep an eye out while wiping her down and like you I have a solid 2016.5 also in the fastest red color, but not near 25k yet. Of course I didn't get mine but a couple months back either. We are headed to Daytona tomorrow for Biketoberfest so that will be a few more miles added.RNJ12
I agree!!! I have 2016.5 Fast Red also!!! Must be something about that color. No "catastrophic" failures here!!! (KNOCK ON WOOD)CDCAMEL6
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2016.5 drive it like the old man I am glad its not red i may not be able to hold on to it..............lol
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Gray is associated with old and slow. Look at the old people today who are fortunate to have hair it's GRAY and they are SLOW.
RNJ12
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Gray is associated with old and slow. Look at the old people today who are fortunate to have hair it's GRAY and they are SLOW.
RNJ12
I resemble some of that! I'm gray and kinda old..... but not slow. Must be the Fast Red that offsets that part!
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I resemble some of that! I'm gray and kinda old..... but not slow. Must be the Fast Red that offsets that part!
Yes sir that and you are a swell guy to chat with.RNJ12
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I found the problem...
The rear fender bracket suffered a cata......horrible failure...
The noise was the fender rubbing on the tire.
This is the perfect example of why people can't take you seriously, you made a thread asking for help to diagnose something without even looking at the location where the problem was.......
This thread is the equivalent of that dumb friend in college who asked you to check her car because it wouldn't start and when you check it out it turns out that it doesn't have any gas............ except no chance of the hot blonde paying for services rendered here
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I just did a search for weird rear end noise and nothing comes up but my posts. Couldn’t see the broken fender struts because they were still in place. I moved them apart to show the problem in the picture. The attachment bolts kept them in place. So to see they were cracked off wasn’t easy. Since the noise was intermittent I was thinking it could be the drive belt. And with all the swing arm failures form cracks and bearings and other noises and issues I wasn’t sure what to look for.
Thank God for arm chair mechanics.