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Vtec engagement vibration

4 posts Started 9 Dec 2009 Last recovered post 9 Dec 2009 Wayback Machine snapshot 12 Apr 2010

#1
Just curious, When your vtec engages on your bike do you feel any extra vibration through you pegs, bars, or seats? My 2006 seems to have developed a vibration that I don't remember having earlier.
The pegs, seat and bars are vibrating at the Vtec engagement point and higher.
I have checked the obvious items and it is not chain related. If you pull in the clutch and rev it up I get the vibration.
Below the vtec engagement point no problem.
I have checked sidestand, centerstand, any thing that may be below the seat etc.......

Could the starter valves be out of sync. and cause this?

I do ride the bike hard and often run her to redline. It is an 2006 with 10k miles.
I recently lowered the oil level to the top fill mark, it was slightly over filled, but didn'thelp the deal.

Appreciate any ideas you may have.
#2
No worries it is completely normal. The VFR does not vibrate as much as most bikes, but it does vibrate some. I do notice what you are talking about, but it just seems to be when I am think about it. Seriously you have nothing to worry about.
#3
Cam chain tensioner? But then you have only 10k on the bike - This may fix any 'new' vibrations that you may detect at certain rev ranges.
#4
IIRC one of the operations on the 8k service is to check/torque the engine mounts (and all other fasteners). When I did that I found a significant number of the little buggers (engine mounts, footpeg mounts, handlebar pinch bolts, etc.) were under the torque spec. Bringing them to spec smoothed the bike out significantly.

Might be work a look.
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