Remi
New Member
Hello everyone,
First of all, a big thank you to all the participants of this forum for the vast amount of information available here.
And now, here is my story, I am working on a 2006 Yamaha FZ6 that has been sitting for around two years (not entirely sure, but a long time), it had a few faults/faulty parts that I've already dealt with/replaced and I have successfully started it a number of times in the past few days for testing purposes. During the latest start earlier today the bike ran normally for a couple of minutes before a loud metal rattling noise appeared almost instantly, I killed the bike within a couple of seconds and my initial and current theory is that the CCT failed, I took it off and a short piece of metal wire fell out immediately before I even had the CCT fully out of the bike, I assume that it is part of the spring inside the CCT(?). I've already ordered a replacement CCT but I am not an expert by any means and this is a rather unusual project for me so I am very reluctant to proceed before consulting with someone of greater knowledge on the topic, so here I am. I guess I have a few questions, am I correct in assuming that a metal rattling noise is most likely cam chain related? is it normal for a CCT to fail so suddenly? (please consider the fact that the bike was sitting for a long time) what harm could have occurred from this sudden failure? is it possible that the cam chain jumped some teeth and wrecked the engine? what is the next logical step in resolving this issue?
Any help whatsoever is highly appreciated and thank you in advance.
Kind regards,
Remi
First of all, a big thank you to all the participants of this forum for the vast amount of information available here.
And now, here is my story, I am working on a 2006 Yamaha FZ6 that has been sitting for around two years (not entirely sure, but a long time), it had a few faults/faulty parts that I've already dealt with/replaced and I have successfully started it a number of times in the past few days for testing purposes. During the latest start earlier today the bike ran normally for a couple of minutes before a loud metal rattling noise appeared almost instantly, I killed the bike within a couple of seconds and my initial and current theory is that the CCT failed, I took it off and a short piece of metal wire fell out immediately before I even had the CCT fully out of the bike, I assume that it is part of the spring inside the CCT(?). I've already ordered a replacement CCT but I am not an expert by any means and this is a rather unusual project for me so I am very reluctant to proceed before consulting with someone of greater knowledge on the topic, so here I am. I guess I have a few questions, am I correct in assuming that a metal rattling noise is most likely cam chain related? is it normal for a CCT to fail so suddenly? (please consider the fact that the bike was sitting for a long time) what harm could have occurred from this sudden failure? is it possible that the cam chain jumped some teeth and wrecked the engine? what is the next logical step in resolving this issue?
Any help whatsoever is highly appreciated and thank you in advance.
Kind regards,
Remi