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Front Fairing Rattle in Norge

Cat City Rider

Cat City Rider

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Has anyone experienced a rattling noise coming from the electric windshield mechanism? It comes from the front of the windshield lifter thingy cover hitting against the front fairing.
Any good fix before I start rummaging around in there?
Lately It's been getting downright irritating.
:S
 
Hi Brian,

Just had a look at mine...everything looks securely fixed but they are close together and there is a mark where they touch.

It wouldnt take 5 mins to take the screen off and the cover for the leccy screen.....must be the fairing or the leccy screen assembly.

Good luck.

Eric B)
 
Yes it's annoying. It sounds as if it's near the headlamps, but this is misleading. the windshield parallelogram is loose fitting, but I was afraid shimming would create more load on the motor by not allowing any tolerance fo rmisalignment
 
It turned out to be a easy fix.

I removed the windscreen and then the front cover to the drive unit, found a small piece of vacuum tubing cut off about one inch and cut a split in it, placed it over the bottom edge of the cover, replaced the cover, and presto! No more rattle. I didn't use any adhesive to hold it on in case adjustments are needed. It seems there is enough pressure to hold it in place as is.
There doesn't appear to be any additional stress on the motor and after it beds in a bit, it will be just fine.
Should the rubber loosen, a little "Goop" adhesive will hold it OK.

Plan "B" was to use a dollop of silicon, let it dry and see if that would do it, but it wasn't necessary.
 
I had the same problem and did the rubber tubing fix. Also had a rattle where the black plastic hits the gas tank. The rubber strip Guzzi uses is not available as a part and the rubber rips easily when removing the gas tank, as I found out after my first service on the bike. The rattle was bad enough where it wore a groove on both side of the tank. I used door jam strip for automobiles to replace the bogus rubber and then glued a medium density 1/4" foam underneath the black plastic where it meets the tank. Took care of the rattle and hopefully will stop the black plastic from eating into the tank.
 
Only noise I noticed was an intermittent buzzing that turned out to be the horn (really gotta replace that pathetic thing) vibrating against something. Just bent out the bracket a bit, end of story. By the way (warning, hijacking coming) anybody know if the Norge has that Euro, BMW-ish type of smart wiring that makes it much more difficult to just replace a horn, or other such accessory? Have seen reports of horn replacements that don't seem to mention any sort of problem like that, but just in case..... Thinking of one of the dual snail Fiamm's or like, same as on my Tonti Guzzis. No air horns.
 
guzzibob wrote:
Only noise I noticed was an intermittent buzzing that turned out to be the horn (really gotta replace that pathetic thing) vibrating against something. Just bent out the bracket a bit, end of story. By the way (warning, hijacking coming) anybody know if the Norge has that Euro, BMW-ish type of smart wiring that makes it much more difficult to just replace a horn, or other such accessory? Have seen reports of horn replacements that don't seem to mention any sort of problem like that, but just in case..... Thinking of one of the dual snail Fiamm's or like, same as on my Tonti Guzzis. No air horns.
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No Cam bus for the horns, I wired mine through a relay to feed Dual Fiamm Highway Blasters.
 
That'd be a CAN bus for ya ... annoying for some, fun to play with for others ;)

I got a new inner (black) fairing along with the rest of the tupperware shroud (hiya, Mike.C :p), and sure enough, there's no rubber lining along it. Weird. But then again I don't really need it, given I have a Bagster tank protector that serves the same purpose!
 
I've finally gotten around to taking the slop out of the windshield parallelogram. With 75k kilometers on the bike I've never had any issues with the power windshield using it at speed or not, and I do use it frequently but I wanted to snug it up to avoid accelerated wear and get rid of the rattle.
Being a cheap bast... umm thrifty lad, I used aluminum tape beneath the plastic flanged bushings used in the arms to take up the axial play and made everything nice and snug.
I just cut some pieces of tape and stuck these on the levers, cut them out and reinstalled the sleeves. I didn't measure the bushes for wear but they looked good.
For reference these bushes would be available at a bearing supply house, they are made by IGUS.

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