Wow fellas...... and to think all that for a ticking noise!

I am with Hub on this one, exhaust gasket! Its that easy.

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same here i had a loud tick and swore it was coming from the valve train till i put gloves on and grabbed the header and tick stopped so i stripped her down and tightened the header bolts and it stopped ticking

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You guys read his post about what he did...yes?He checked the header bolts....it didn't change anything.

was just stating my experience with a ticking noise. Besides all I see you guys talking about is a bent axle , have no idea what that has to do with an engine tick . lmao

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You guys read his post about what he did...yes?He checked the header bolts....it didn't change anything.

Look man, I know my shit so if you can't figure it out, bent axles cause ticking.

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Wort did I tell you? 4 pages of BS, someone should not be discussing what should be known already. A simple one step at a time, but no, asspimple cannot figure out a burnt-flame front-I'm a hot torch-I can find a gap and begin to cause a hot spot with air assist.

The crush is; take a set of steps. I'm going to use 2 [horizontal] steps, 1 vertical support to build the next step up. Get it? Like that greek theory or whatever, you throw the pebble in the water it never lands on the same spot theory. I swap pipes. I never hit the same part of the gasket, fumbling the pipe back on.

For argument sake, say the taller step is where the pipe lands now. The lower step was the original crush. As I installed the pipe back on, the part of the header shifted onto a taller part of the o-ring that wasn't crushed; how about that? Do you agree with me?

I'm pointing out, take the vertical part of the step, crush it so the 2 steps are almost horizontal in plain. To keep the theory going, the GAS'did not comprehend gasket theory on the crush one time. Factory always calls the head gasket is a one time crush. Most use the same head gasket over again. "Not my bike."

You also [for argument sake], cannot keep up with the last side of the stud you stared with, meaning, as if you could see behind the gasket to crush one side more even than the other side. That step you created was moving the pipe off, and that says 3 times the gasket was used:

1. Factory crush.
2. Original owner's aftmrk pipe.
3. Original owner reinstalled the original pipes back on.

4 fucking pages of asscrack had to open his mouth, not figure out the crush HOW MANY TIMES? That step says, 'constant' like a tick-tick-I'm going to burn your ass the hard way. GAS'did I tell you to shut the mouth up and still, you do not get the phantom smoke is smoke your ass, you, you, no weights on my wheels kind of _________ Fill in the blank!

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I never said it couldn't be a header leak....BUT....here's the 'final' verdict on this deal here...From Hub himself...and I quote..."You, me, others; know the bike sounds fine".If it sounds fine...then why bring ME into it again since I first posted...."the bike sounds normal to me"?Tryin again to start stuff.....go take a ride or somethin,get yer hostility out of yer system if ya can...don't use me.This thread and the rest are NOT about my ignorance...they're about trying to help.You're not helping.You're spending your posts on bashing.Get a life.

BTW...regardless of WHERE the bearing deal was posted...it's clear that SOME members don't realize the rear bearing is NOT a sealed unit...that they CAN cause a bearing failure by doing certain things when they think it's indestructable.It isn't.So I added my little 'help' deal in there.Too bad...sorry....maybe SOMEONE will read this and avoid a problem down the road.

Hub says...-"I'm going to burn your ass the hard way. GAS'did I tell you to shut the mouth up"....just got back from your trolling other sites eh?Now you're here again after everything mellowed out and tryin again to start a firestorm....troll.

Anyway....getting back to the ticking thread...I replaced my headers on my 2012 twice(removing and reinstalling)no problem with the factory gaskets.The number 1 gasket came out of the port.I fitted it back in how it was shaped,I've got no ticking,leaking or anything else going on with my headers.The gaskets sealed fine.They tell ya NOT to tighten down the fittings first UNTIL ya get the whole system on there and installed...THEN...you start from the BACK(at the muffler) and tighten things up as you go.MAYBE.....the OP didn't do this?IDK....there's a reason for it...but I'll let HUb tell ya'll what that reason is.Okay Hub...it's YOUR show

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[/quote].If it sounds fine...then why bring ME into it again since I first posted...."[/quote] Because I gave you 3 variables you did not think of. I asked if the bike looked tampered with? I asked if the tick comes and goes or is constant? Why you should not make comment just to make comment is you are not thinking tech as the X to Y is Z crush x's 3. This is not your cup of tea. I asked 3 Q's against your one 'It's fine, leave it alone and I am not finished, guy.

...the bike sounds normal to me"?Tryin again to start stuff.....go take a ride or somethin,get yer hostility out of yer system if ya can...don't use me.This thread and the rest are NOT about my ignorance...they're about trying to help.You're not helping.You're spending your posts on bashing.Get a life.

First, I said, 'Ain't my bike with the problems." I am not mad and frustrated you read my sentences how was that? Where is this hostility if I am schooling you as if I caught you in the lav smoking on the porcelain rings anshit.

I think most of or some of us are laughing about dis, dissing. It's all about room smoke, wet behind the ears, your head got too deep in that porcelain tank kind of take a ride and dry them off... Tell me what to do. See me telling you to stop with the comments... Go right ahead. It's more lap for lap you get the slap. Not my problem guy, you keep it up is your choice. Your last comment is a waste of a post helping the OP. Contributed nothing but bring up a bearing again. It didn't change anything in your thinking, did it?

BTW...regardless of WHERE the bearing deal was posted...it's clear that SOME members don't realize the rear bearing is NOT a sealed unit...

If you read the OP's question, it said "RIGHT BEARING." Right now, you brought up the wrong bearing to confuse yourself with the bent axle. You cannot walk the parts or their failures. Since I've never caused a failed bearing to happen without the sleeve in that 'unsealed bearing that is OK, no, you did not see the sleeve take out the right bearing is to conclude that is the failed part. The OP continued to cause the right bearing again to fail until the collar or sleeve? You are still confused about the collar not being the cause of the failed part in the first place.

1. Sleeve was left out.
2. Right bearing failed.
3. Right bearing replaced again. OP found the sleeve that goes inside the exposed bearing without dust shield. He then found the sleeve, installed it back into the sprocket carrier, where the sleeve slides into this bearing race...

Conclusion? He had the wheel off. Forgot the sleeve spacer. Took out 2 right bearings until he found out he had a bent axle. Oh, I forgot... We almost had the sleeve found till you came in, choked in smoke we were in is because of you, you clowntown that should not even enter what you are confused about is lay low on dis one, guy, or weep wad you so what. You canon fodder.

that they CAN cause a bearing failure by doing certain things when they think it's indestructable.It isn't.So I added my little 'help' deal in there.Too bad...sorry....maybe SOMEONE will read this and avoid a problem down the road.

YOu blew in nothing of value. All you said was that parts fail, but never state the WHY kind of walk to any step but....

"...they fail, it's normal" is the paraphrase. GAS? Go and sit down with a D. Go clean and press your clown suit. I think you got a little soiled the last past 3 page IS! Digging your own grave is, "It's a normal tick."

You guys read his post about what he did...yes?He checked the header bolts....it didn't change anything

Again, look at your quote. Either there is a hole in the dyke or there is not. The faucet makes noise and drips or does not. You do not think mechanical enough to continue even in conversation, you cannot follow crush steps times 3, pee-pee-peeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Or, tick-ta-tick-tick. It's like talking to a child witHAndicap!

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"See me telling you to stop with the comments"."GAS'did I tell you to shut the mouth up"....Uh...yeah....If I understand the English language....any sensible person would see that you've got ZERO enjoyment in your life.You can't even get your little 'story' straight in these few posts here.I'll say this...I'm glad YOU'RE taking those drugs....not me.

"Why you should not make comment just to make comment is you are not thinking tech as the X to Y is Z crush x's 3. This is not your cup of tea. I asked 3 Q's against your one"...yeah,so?You asked three q's...good...more to work with.Anyone blast your q's?...nope...I don't see where ANYONE critcised your questions.I offered MY ideas.You think they're not valid?Not up to snuff with YOUR tech?...so what...everyone's supposed to bow down to the Hub and say"OMG...I better keep quiet...I don't know shit even though MY experience says different"...ya...that's what yer after...everyone to shut up and crown you king of the forum?Let me tell ya Tech Guy...my suggestions come straight outta the manual....and personal experience.Does that make me 'smarter' than anyone else here?....only a fool would believe he has the last word on working on these bikes.

I don't care HOW you slice it...try to confuse it...distort it....you CAN'T get away from this statemnet from the OP.....He "tigthened the header bolts and it still sounds the same".....Agreed...if the gasket was damaged or whatever...then tightening may or may not correct it.But to begin a post with...

"Have you met the clown, THUNDER? I think he likes to hear himself talk. I'm going to agree with you, we still have a noise'".

"I'm going to agree with you, we still have a noise'".....and then tell me...."Me,you and others here KNOW it sounds fine"...wtf?Tell me this isn't trying to start something and then blame others for responding.The bearing thing is a smokescreen...just like all your other stuff here.You get caught in a corner...you try to blame as many as ya can for YOUR stuff.Grow up.

BG gave ya yer own topic on here.."ASK HUB"...pretty dam nice I think....what happened to it?You fucked it up cause you constantly HAD to be right and any other input...questions...legit stuff...you fucked around and mocked the OP's instead of handling it like a grown man and offering your knowledge in a mature way.YOU did that.You're STILL doing that.People on here aren't a bunch of dumb asses...they're smart people who have ideas and questions.You make a friggin circus outta these posts.Entertainment?Guys want straight answers to their concerns...not a self centered sideshow.

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Hub says...-"I'm going to burn your ass the hard way. GAS'did I tell you to shut the mouth up"....just got back from your trolling other sites eh?Now you're here again after everything mellowed out and tryin again to start a firestorm....troll.

And here I though you ended on page 2... Let us wait for the OP now, right? Nope, you had your say. Page 3 comes along, others made comment but you had to open the mouth up again. I though you had your say and we were done with your bearings on a tick thread? I wonder who the troll is? I smoke out trolls if you haven't figured it out. I checkup the regs thinking they got a handle on the parts is parts? I can tell you can't walk with the helping out. This is where the boys with their toys split ways.

Anyway....getting back to the ticking thread...I replaced my headers on my 2012 twice(removing and reinstalling)no problem with the factory gaskets.

I guess 3 times the charm?

They tell ya NOT to tighten down the fittings first UNTIL ya get the whole system on there and installed...THEN...you start from the BACK(at the muffler) and tighten things up as you go.MAYBE.....the OP didn't do this?IDK....there's a reason for it...but I'll let HUb tell ya'll what that reason is.

The reason is that you do not know how page 5-39 does not even tell you to start at the muffler brackets. It says to install new gaskets (LOL) and tighten in sequence first. Nothing about starting at the back first. It says, 'after the torque sequence, install the parts taken off. See other chapters.'

Now, do you see how you confuse things? Even the book in front of you is confusing to you. Gotta bail out of this GAS'd. It is why I coined you that namesake, fella. This is just too deep for you. Bow out or look more like you do not know what you are talking about and this right here is it, guy. Plain as day you keep on digging yourself in a hole and you do not see it but I am sure others do.

No shit. Page 4 because I told you so, GAS'd. You should really walk from this as you should have the bearing. Go to the camera thread. I don't have a pro or we would have a conversation. This stuff...??? Not happening in your lifetime, guy. Guys like you perpetuate the fallacy that can't walk the walk, talk the talk... Out of a fucking page, even!

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"The reason is that you do not know how page 5-39 does not even tell you to start at the muffler brackets. It says to install new gaskets (LOL) and tighten in sequence first. Nothing about starting at the back first. It says, 'after the torque sequence, install the parts taken off. See other chapters.'"

Have you ever TRIED to replace header gaskets?Try pulling the header off with the exhaust still hooked up and in position...or vice versa...TRY it..then tell me and the others here that nothing needs to be removed past the header pipes...I'm talking about aftermarket pipes...that's what he thinks may have caused this....AFTERMARKET PIPES....NOT STOCK EQUIPMENT.Geez....you can't stay on the subject to save yer life.

"'after the torque sequence, install the parts taken off". Look at this statement...book or no book...does THIS make sense?Get with it.....things aren't always what they seem.Did YOUR bike come with springs to help align the headers?No...I didn't think so.There's a reason for that.....why not tell us about that...in relation to ""'after the torque sequence, install the parts taken off"...go ahead...'splain' away....

The manual is primarily for a TRAINED TECH.They're assuming a mechanic has actually WORKED on the bike and KNOWS what needs to come off in what order.Read it.....it says right there 'after the torque sequence, "install the parts taken off". See other chapters.'"Sheesh....go an sit down will ya...join me on the Gas'd seats.I'm lonely over here.

You can't pull the headers out unless you remove the rear parts first.The midpipes...the muffler.The factory didn't include springs an such...the header fits a certain way...and that's that.It fits or it doesn't.It's a particular thickness.Designed to fit in there a certain way.AFTERMARKET headers are NOT the same design or composition.They fit differently...

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If I understand the English language....any sensible person would see that you've got ZERO enjoyment in your life.You can't even get your little 'story' straight in these few posts here.I'll say this...I'm glad YOU'RE taking those drugs....not me.

I've got a few guys cracking up with my lingo. I've got my story straight. No drug on dis earth is controlling my thoughts, guy. I'm fitting your clown suit on... "You're gonna like what you see."

Anyone blast your q's?...nope...I don't see where ANYONE critcised your questions.I offered MY ideas.You think they're not valid?

Not even close guy.

Not up to snuff with YOUR tech?...so what...everyone's supposed to bow down to the Hub and say"OMG...I better keep quiet...I don't know shit even though MY experience says different"...ya...that's what yer after...everyone to shut up and crown you king of the forum?

Dude, you are thinking like that. I am walking absolute steps. They go someplace. YOu have ideas that are not followed thru. The bent axle is 'I can't get my axle thru the hole' kind of q. You did not think it thru. It was a waste like your last post. I thought you'd shut up by now? But you keep digging deeper with lame direction even a child can figure out you push the header away from the head you start from the back. But you don't see it. I have to show you the steps in the book. I may look the expert is open the shop manual and see how they do it is makes sense to me. I think I'll change the gaskets and begin the torque sequence. Not my fault you don't see it, clowny. You clown the parts on your bike is that kind of guesswork you are doing. Novice to the hilt is my opinion. Guys ride a long time, admit they are not cut out for tools in hand.

Let me tell ya Tech Guy...my suggestions come straight outta the manual....and personal experience.Does that make me 'smarter' than anyone else here?....only a fool would believe he has the last word on working on these bikes.

You are now saying that the page said to start from the back. Go to the page I said to read, come back, tell me 'you are smarter than anyone else here' and I'd be a fool to listen to you rather than the book is I believe you are correct on this one.

I don't care HOW you slice it...try to confuse it...distort it....just like all your other stuff here.You get caught in a corner...you try to blame as many as ya can for YOUR stuff.Grow up.

I use your abstract and show how it is not in sequence with the factory manual. That is where I get my info. That is the info I just used so there is not one step of confusion, when the page states how to install the header all the way back is to read the book, hello? Show me where I confuse someone is more you walked the parts in the opposite direction from the book. You again dug another hole is to say you or I confused the public is you in one direction and me is the book's direction. I don't put myself in a corner is I think you see yourself in a corner is more smoke I have to prove you are not book savvy. I got the OP out of the corner is to read the factory manual if they can read me, they can read the manual just fine. I blame you, GAS'd for wasted pages other than entertainment you open your trap.

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"I blame you"....so what else is new?...abstract...wtf is 'abstract'...we've been down this road you and I before.This post is about me and you....clearly...now.I didn't intend to get into it...not this way.You just couldn't help youself....take it into another direction...one about mocking me...and NOT answering the OP's post.I don't CARE what you say about me.You just don't get it do you?Still think it's about 'who's right and who's wrong'.It's my fault all this...yes ?Happy?Have a nice day there Mr Tech wizard.BTW...see that Green SE in my avatar?She's a rocker-roller I'll tell ya....friggin spaceship and time machine.Have fun now bashing my posts....c-ya!

Just for yer own info here...unlike some...I've got my PM's enabled....you'd be a tad surprised to know that not EVERYONE here thinks yer who YOU think you are.Or me either.I actually DO have friends here.

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Again, you read into the text as if it is personal? I said you are a good man, C Brown is it is not about you. It is about the abstract sent in. Pretty much anyone that said it sounded normal made their statement and that was it. For some reason, you said the same thing others said, meaning, it sounded normal and that should have ended your statement to the tick.

All I am saying is, you kept on adding more comment that we already established the tick 'could be' a gasket. I ended there as I [continued to] ask, nor did I conclude to a comment about the bike's running. I know it sounds fine. I now have to ask about too many times is a pipe change.

You bring in a variable of 2 changes. You again cannot compute that a multi-piece exhaust with springs do nothing about a header crushing a gasket. Again, you are bringing in pipe springs that have nothing to do with the crush of two points. Not two spring points.

All this shit for what, guy? So you can see me bring up more walk to a spring that you rolled into a port so it is now the new gasket? Yeah, that's it. My springs were taken off too many times, I have a gasket leak. Could you just let this go? Wait to see what happens so the OP can move to the next tick? I do not assume ticks. Especially when the OP can still hear it. Take a deep breath... Resist from another post. Let the OP install some gaskets and just wait & see? Then, start all over again with an idea. I think we have established a leak; pages ago. Don't bring in bearings and pipe springs too. Only a troll would continue to make comment, not wait for the OP's next move.

Do yourself a favor. Don't bring in springs and bearings into a tick thread. It's too... Fill in the blank.

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"I think we have established a leak; pages ago". ...uh..no,'we' didn't.He said he tightened the bolts...the noise was still there.In plain everyday English...that means...NO GASKET LEAK TICK.Geez.

"that should have ended your statement to the tick"...because YOU say so?.Like I said...I'll post a million times whatever...wherever....and however I like in ANYONE's thread about ANY subject I want.I'll jack your threads...and anyone elses I choose to.I'll post complete horseshit if I want...in the middle of a perfectly coherent discussion if I choose....just like you do....JUST like you do.I'll copy and paraphrase everyone elses advice a billion times If I want...just like you do.I'll steal their ideas...and try to convince people they're mine....just like you do....so get used to it.Everytime you post about me knowing shit for anything...I'll jack yer thread so fast you won't know wtf hit ya.If EVERYONE gets mad and leaves because of it....too bad.I've got nothing to do at night here.I'll spend it pullin yer covers all night long.You'll get get so sick of seein my responses to yer BS that you'll wish you'd never heard of me..if you don't already...you will.Got it?Good.In case you didn't know it by now.....you aint runnin shit around here.Not my posts anyway.And you can spend yer time making fun of me and all that....go ahead...waste yer time on me.I think it's great that I'm so f-ng important to you that you'd spend post after post after post talking about ME.Telling others here what a f-ng dumbass I am,and don't listen to me.Think I give a shit pardner?I don't care if ANYONE listens to me.You got the wrong GRN 14.I don't give a shit....about anything you have to say about me...or OTHERS here.You talk against my buds here...I'll hammer ya.You make fun of peoples posts here..or their fixes...I'll slam ya....I don't EVER have to post another help thread comment.EVER.I can spend my time here making yours miserable...believe me....you aint seen nothin.These guys are my friends..most of em.You don't know what you're getting into here.You think you do...but you don't.If getting banned from this site...you AND me is the end result.I'm cool with that.If I get banned for speakin the truth here...I'm cool with that.Least I didn't roll over.

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Just because the bolts are tight does not mean there cant be a leak! You know how it goes the guy that changed the exhaust probably has a extra gasket laying on his garage floor. Someone needs to take a bong and chill out.

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"Just because the bolts are tight does not mean there cant be a leak!"...and I acknowledged that already.I never said.. "it can't be leaking'...I said..."I don't hear anything strange going on with his motor"...that started this whole deal...which the 'master tech' ALSO admitted...so...WTF?So he's fucking with the op telling him this and that...and dissing me?Why not say straight out..."I don't hear anything strange either"...rather than tell the op..."find your ticking....keep looking"...wtf?Great advice....would YOU want this guy 'helping' you?Especially knowing that he won't tell the truth about what he truly thinks is going on?

I will never agree with anyone here or elsewhere that tells somebody they need to keep looking for something that doesn't exist.What a bunch of horseshit.And I don't need drugs to calm me down.I feel fine right where I'm at.I shoot straight...that's me.I don't care what someone else thinks about me.Period.

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Say grn?; Do what you like. We are all adults here. It is possible THUNDER has now understood me giving him the heads-up around here. There are too many 'possible tick at the exhaust' posts coming in. However, that tick cannot be heard on the video, or at least I could not hear it. It was why I asked for another run at it. But upon the second hearing of it, the engine shutting off, short of the engine sounding normal, I could not hear that tick, be it a valve or exhaust hiss.

I am just having fun watching you GAS'dun look like you need a medicine cabinet full of meds madness over a leak, tweak, seek some help, guy. Who gets all upset over a possible leak you don't hear? I can't hear it? I know you might be some piece of shit cheap ass won't take the time to change them out and try it kind of, "I got me Brock springs and things, I'ma gunna put them pipes is pipes on, hope I don't have a hiss sea fit... She? No leaks on the second go around.'

Well goody two shoes for you, grennie. It would be really sad but not really what I've read over 30 years ago about guys like your way of thinking... and that means the mechanical field. You started from the back of the exhaust bolts. Not only that, you said it was found in the manual. Where am I coming up with the counter move?

I think I looked in the shop man you will pay for your distorted abstract. Did I rip up page by page is explain how the book explains it? That was too simple. I would tell no one any other way if it makes sense to me. On your end, you need more years to figure out the shop man you will never understand it, old guy. Can't teach a dog new tricks is to go on the paper! Bad dog!

YOu are like some dog that rips up their master's pillows and gnaws on the chair legs. All because they left the doggie all alone. Visit a vet'inn'air'weeeeee'anshit for your medication. Try a sea posi tore me up once. Shoved that pill up dare and out came your brains the hard way. So how about we start all over. Send up two of those pooper outer pills up dare, we get down to seeing if your brain stem is attached? Shit, I can't tell from here? Can you film it for us?

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Ahem...you're the guy with the dildo as yer helper there....seems you know all about sticking things where the sun don't shine.Little fruedian slip there big guy?What does 'assemble all removed parts' mean...in the manual?"See other chapters"....you quoted it...straight from that book.Good for you...you proved my point better than I ever could!Good job there...keep up the good work!

"I could not hear that tick"...first ya hear it,then ya don't...well...which is it?I KNOW what I heard...nothing.His mechanic said..."nothing'.YOU say..."I heard nothing"....do you even know what year it is?Or day?C'mon...what year is it...30 years ago?This aint 30 years ago....in case ya didn't know that.

"It is possible THUNDER has now understood me giving him the heads-up around here".I'm sure he's decided that ole Grn is the dumbest fuckhead to ever walk the planet...and 'thanks be to God(HUB)" for that eye opening,life changing experience.Yep...
you saved his arse there Hub...really...from falling headlong into the 'trap' of listening to anyone but you.What would the guys ever do without your brotherly love flowing like a river through these topics?

BTW...I left ya a little message over in "other bikes" thread....

"A place for discussion of bikes other than the ZX-14"....and you say to everyone here...."Go by the manual".... better brush up on your comprehension skills there pardner....

Everyone 'entertained' yet?Who wants some more?????????

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I'm the guy talking to a dildo is like talking to the dicks like you, fella. Symbolic up the ying yang. Take Sigmund's words and use them for lubing. I don't give a shit what you bring in to justify your cluelessness.

I'm sure he's decided that ole Grn is the dumbest fuckhead to ever walk the planet.

Yep... You said that. I only mention you are not qualified to discuss what you know. It is limited in scope.

you saved his arse there Hub...really...from falling headlong into the 'trap' of listening to anyone but you.

I sure did. I trust only the manual. I have that dildo and you and it are the spitting image of why you are like you are. Not dumb. Just not educated in the field.

What would the guys ever do without your brotherly love flowing like a river through these topics?

That is your hangup guy. I'm discussing a tick noise the owner still hears. You are going to do and say shit all over any post you like. Thing is, I chase assholes like you on the net for dumb moves like tightening the muffler assembly backasswords and you said you read it in the shop ha-ha man you will pay for this one forever!

Backasswords comprehension skills is you don't even have the skill to think that movement thru. I can see the headers about a half and inch away from the port holes by the time you are done with the last spring on the pipe system. Fucking idiot didn't even question the man you will pay for every word.

You brushed that muffler assembly all right. It's no wonder anyone listens to you for advice. YOu still do not get it.

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"I sure did. I trust only the manual"...how the hell can you trust 'the manual' when ya can't even read a post topic?.

"You are going to do and say shit all over any post you like"...yup....just following your pristene example.Ya see...I KNOW how to work on my bike...and where and how to get answers.That means...I can spend the rest of my time on this forum interfering with every post you do.EVERY post.Like now....I'm not asking"how do I do this"...I'm fucking with you.Fun,isn't it? And I'm gonna keep fucking with you.Every post...every day.This is my new relaxation spot..kind of a 'unwinder' from being at work.I don't need your 'advice' to do anything with my bike.I have guys like Rook and Danno and some others here that'll give me the pointers I need for whatever I need about my bike.So you see,I've really nothing else to do...except FUCK WITH YOU and YOUR POSTS.As they say in hamburger land..."I'm Lovin' It"LMAO!!!!!!!!

Someday...when ya grow up...even YOU might get a taste of a badgirl like this

Remember...'every post'..every 'comment of advice'.....and I'll get up and do it all over again.....every post...every comment of advice.This place'll be bigger than Hollywood...entertainment capital of the world

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This is not my thread. And I am done here until THUNDER comes back or doesn't. I don't blame him. So, you can talk to yourself from now on. LOL

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"This is not my thread"....oh yes it is....it's yours completely.You made sure of that...now...live with it...and stop being a baby.We're not talking 'bike tech' now are we?You've got questions to answer for....you forgot?..like...."how can an axle get warped?"...that's one.And this one...'how do you remove the header without removing the exhaust system on a stock zx14?'...Yer on....get busy .Time to shine Master Tech...time to shine.

And this gem from the master tech himself...."I like the confusion, create more confusion if you are already confused now". Want him giving you advice on YOUR bike do ya?Have at it.Maybe YOUR bike can end up looking like THIS beauty...once a gorgeous....zx14.Yup....one time.

Notice the fine upgrade he's made to the safety features of his custom zx....no rear brake."It should be removed cause it's nothing but trouble.Don't even attempt to learn how to use it....just ditch it...that way you can stay as ignorant as I am"...and tell everyone they're a bunch of jerks for using it in non-essential techniques like trailbraking,or stopping on an incline and trying to take off by holding the front brake,...while releasing the clutch for the drive off.And the throttle of course.And shifting into first to get things rolling.Oh yeah...and don't forget now...the BEST technique for taking off is to start your bike and immediately without clutching slam it into first and give it the gas.That's the best way...you won't have to deal with CCT noise.

Besides...using your rear brake makes you a pussy and a squid.REAL bikers don't use a rear brake.Or allow the engine to circulate oil at startup.Their engines 'better be as tough as they are by God'.

Don't forget you guys...Winter's comin...so.....make sure you inflate your tires to at least 70psi...for storage.That way...when it's time to ride again...the pressure will have nicely leaked out over the storage period and you won't need to worry about them being 'right on factory spec'...they'll have done that all on their own for ya come the day you ride safely onto the highway.Into traffic...safe and secure at highway speeds.Need some more advice..."just ask Hub"...

"Unfortunately, I have to mock everyone that did not walk their history of the product. The trivia they should know"Such a victim..everyone's MAKING you do what you do,huh?

Trivia?Like getting a guy killed with yer 'history of the product' info.?Which tire mfg EVER said...'store your tires at 70psi'.

The amazing thing to me is...NOBODY,and I mean NOBODY said....WTF are you saying here?Except me.There were guys on here who actually were gonna do what he suggested....thought it was good info...coming from such a 'mysterious guy' that talks a bunch of 'mysterious' talk...you know,a real snake charmer.

* Last updated by: Grn14 on 5/21/2012 @ 4:20 AM *

Hello Blue Thunder,

A little soapy water (heavy dish soap and water solution delivered via spray bottle)sprayed around the region where your exhaust marries to the exhaust manifold could be an easy way to see if you have a leak. Just look for the formation of bubbles. I have had exhaust leaks in large trucks that go either way. One leak was louder when cold, another leak became louder when hot. Either way an exhaust leak always sounds nasty. Often it is a very pronounced mechanical ticking sound.

Good luck, and hopefully the solution to your problem will be easy and inexpensive.

Spyglass