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Duanesburg N.Y. | Trunk lid rattle??? pretty rare on the vision....I don't think so. So heres the fix for a dollar. I wish I could take the credit for this but it came from the truck driver Steve who drives all the victory bikes around for the demo days.
1, Open you truck lid.
2, Look next to your centering pin in the underside of your trunk lid and observe that there are 2 deep holes for the torx screws for the cover. stick your pinky in to the holes for no other reason other than you want to. Get a good idea of how deep it is with your finger as your tape measure is missing. Close the lid and ride to napa.
3, Go inside and purchase one foot of fuel or heater hose that will go all the way up in to the 2 holes you just got your pinky stuck in and had to call the fire dept to get you hand unstuck. purchase some glue or silicone goop if you dont have any. Go home
4, take the hose, cut it in half and jam it all the way up in the holes. right now the hose is too long. Take a new straight razor blade and close the lid slowly and see how much hose is too much and you start trimming the hose shorter and shorter. If you dont have a rqazor blade go back to napa.
5, keep trimming little by little untill the hose is long enough but not too long to act like rubber bumpers to stop the lid from bouncing up and down. when your are happy with the legnth pull the hoses out and add a little glue to thw hose hole and stuff the hoses bacj up in to the holes and close the lid and let sit over night.
6, If you cut the hose too short repeat step number #2 and #3
7, I am using 3/8 silicone heater hose from work and I'm here to tell you it works and costs less than a buck to fix it once and for all.. You wont see it with the truck lid down and its not that bad with the trunk open.
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Duanesburg N.Y. | Damn my typing sucks!!!
Eric |
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Visionary
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New Bohemia, VA | Can I order the hose from Lloydz? I'm wanting performance. |
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Cruiser
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| varyder - 2012-06-18 2:42 PM
Can I order the hose from Lloydz? I'm wanting performance.
Exactly. Like braided or even carbon fiber hose. The way I ride, my trunk rattles a lot.
Thanks for the tip Eric! |
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Cruiser
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San Antonio, Texas | I hate to be the one to ask, but do you have any pics of this mod--before or after. It will help with my visualization......
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Iron Butt
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Broken Arrow, OK | varyder - 2012-06-18 1:42 PM
Can I order the hose from Lloydz? I'm wanting performance.LOL, is there an advantage using synthetic hose vs semi or non synthetic?
I can picture it Eric. Sound like a reasonable plan. Thanks |
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Tourer
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Simi Valley, CA | The rattling keeps me awake when I ride. |
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Iron Butt
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Orlando, FL | Go with the Synthetic hose. It'll bounce better and the lid will close quieter, and your luggage shifting inside will be buttery smooth. But be careful...... you might need to get your ECU flashed, or have to consider adding a PC 5 with Autotune.
Just sayin'
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Duanesburg N.Y. | will post pics as soon as I can find my camera, the damn newfoundland carried it away again to some magical location only dogs know of. Eric |
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Fountain Inn, SC United States | Great fix Eric. I've added it to our Tech Reference Section |
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Tourer
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| Did not work for me...Trunk rattled worse...Sticking with my original fix....Sorry |
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Cruiser
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Republic of Texas | A dab of silicone on the lock strikers works too.
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Iron Butt
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| I have the two bumpers, and few small piece of weather stripping along the trunk lip, and still get the "rattles". I believe another source of the trunk noise are the two plastic covers on either side of the trunk lid, where the side markers are placed. I placed a few small pieces of foam weather stripping on the underside of each one, and seems to have cured it. ymmv |
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Danbury, Connecticut | This tip with the hoses worked like a charm for me. Thank you for posting it here-thats been bugging me for two years and I fixed it in two minutes. Now make it so I can see what's behind me in my mirrors(I already knew what my hands looked like) |
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Iron Butt
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Anderson, IN (48mi NE of downtown Indianapolis) | Turk - 2012-07-14 5:57 PM
I have the two bumpers, and few small piece of weather stripping along the trunk lip, and still get the "rattles". I believe another source of the trunk noise are the two plastic covers on either side of the trunk lid, where the side markers are placed. I placed a few small pieces of foam weather stripping on the underside of each one, and seems to have cured it. ymmv
I put foam under the trunk plastic too. Quieted things down. The speaker grills needed some foam as well. |
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New user
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Owasso, OK | I just took off the spacer plates that are under the U-shaped latching bars on inside of the lid. It shortened them up and now the lid closes tighter. |
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$1 dollar luggage rattle fix for good