So, being the overly enthusiastic motorcycle noob that I am after about 300 miles on my brand new 2015 STR that "ticking" noise became slightly more apparent. Enough that I now noticed it, and after doing some research hastily diagnosed it as the Cam Chain Tensioner. So I ordered an manual APE CCT and installed it and obviously it didn't change shit because nothing was really wrong to begin with. Needless to say when I brought my bike in for its 600mi service and I mentioned it to the tech he almost laughed and told me how bad of an idea that was considering that technically it voids my warranty on the engine. He was also nice enough to let me know that he wouldn't report it and I told him that I would reinstall the stock 2015 CCT as soon as I got home and had the chance(which I did earlier today).
This brings me to now. After reinstalling the stock CCT I started up the bike and it seemed almost as it was surging a little when giving it gas and after letting off from one of the revs the engine stalled. Not sure what had happened I started it back up and it seemed almost normal ( resting idle rpms were right below 2000, (which seemed low but what do I know, I'm a noob)). I took it for a bit of a spin around town and idk if I was hearing things or just started noticing it or if it just started with the reinstallation but it sounded like there was almost a high pitch wine that would get slightly higher pitched with higher rpms which makes me think that now the Cam Chain is TOO tight now. Which makes no sense to me considering that I thought the stock CCT was hydraulic and automatically adjusting so it would avoid these problems. Whats going on here? was there some special calibration step on the stock CCT that I missed during install? There were no external screws or springs etc to adjust or remove like on the older stock CCT units. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated seeing as I just got the bike back from service and would hate to have to bring it back in again and spend even more $$$.
This brings me to now. After reinstalling the stock CCT I started up the bike and it seemed almost as it was surging a little when giving it gas and after letting off from one of the revs the engine stalled. Not sure what had happened I started it back up and it seemed almost normal ( resting idle rpms were right below 2000, (which seemed low but what do I know, I'm a noob)). I took it for a bit of a spin around town and idk if I was hearing things or just started noticing it or if it just started with the reinstallation but it sounded like there was almost a high pitch wine that would get slightly higher pitched with higher rpms which makes me think that now the Cam Chain is TOO tight now. Which makes no sense to me considering that I thought the stock CCT was hydraulic and automatically adjusting so it would avoid these problems. Whats going on here? was there some special calibration step on the stock CCT that I missed during install? There were no external screws or springs etc to adjust or remove like on the older stock CCT units. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated seeing as I just got the bike back from service and would hate to have to bring it back in again and spend even more $$$.