Did you fill the oil up?before it sounded this bad, my motor made a little whine at idle nothing bad or not normal but I went riding the other day and I noticed a lot more whine and something was definitely not okay. the whining got way louder and one of my mechanic friends says it sounds like a bearing. I checked my dipstick and there was not a drop of oil on it. The sound is coming from the bottom end more on the clutch side.
2008 cbr1000rr whine
before it sounded this bad, my motor made a little whine at idle nothing bad or not normal but I went riding the other day and I noticed a lot more whine and something was definitely not okay. the whining got way louder and one of my mechanic friends says it sounds like a bearing. I checked my dipstick and there was not a drop of oil on it. The sound is coming from the bottom end more on the clutch side.
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Did you fill the oil up?
Quite a coincidence, you run a bike with very low oil, doing wheelies which will cause gravity to move what oil you have away from the pump pickup and starve the engine, while the engine is being asked to perform at a high power level and then it starts suddenly making bad noises.Yeah honestly I think it was a coincidence that I checked the oil level when I heard the whine because I’m starting to think it’s the crankshaft whine recall. Having the exact same symptoms and I did start doing a lot of clutch ups before it started happening which makes the whine start
Seems like a pretty decent argument for the low oil being the cause of engine damage which is causing the whine.
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