New member here. I apologize in advance for the length of my first post.
I'm a new owner of a 2009 FXDFSE. Bike appears to be stock with 3900 miles on it. Have ridden an 81 FXWG since 1995 so this is a whole new experience for me. I'm not much of a mechanic but have always done my own work on the shovel.
Anyway, after riding this new bike for a couple days I heard what I would describe as a pinging noise coming from what seemed to be the front of the primary. I took it in to the local dealer (has 3 year extended left on it) and they took it apart and found the compensator sprocket collapsed and the clutch hub splines shearing. They replaced everything under the warranty and I was back on the road.
Up until now I had never really rode in any traffic but the other day I got caught in some stop and go traffic. I now noticed that the EITMS was kicking in at every stop. This made the bike run really rough which I assumed is normal. I also noticed that the bike was really running hot. So hot that when I took off from stop it would feel like a blowtorch on my right leg. I wasn't sure how normal this was but I also noticed that when the bike was in neutral and the clutch was out, there is a really loud knocking coming from the front of the primary whenever the EITMS kicked in.
I drove back to the dealership and the original mechanic and the service rep came out to listen to it. He agreed that it sounded bad but said it must be ok since he already replaced the compensator and that was where it was coming from. He seemed stumped so asked if I wanted to turn off the EITMS ( he called it the skip spark). I agreed to let him do this since he said it wouldn't matter much since "these 110's run hot anyway." They took it back and then came out and said that the mapping on my bike didn't allow them to turn it off. He said they would put a call in to Harley to see if the banging was normal and get back to me.
I've never dealt with a Harley dealership before so I'm just confused about the whole thing. Does anyone have any idea why I am getting this loud knocking? Do these bikes run like this normally? This thing sounds clunkier then my old shovelhead.
I'm including a video link to the noise. Sorry I don't know how to embed a video. You can hear the noise at the beginning of the video and then hear it go away as soon as I hit the throttle to engage the back cylinder and then hear it return after the back cylinder shuts down again.
Any help, ideas, suggestions are greatly appreciated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9ZoVHTsnG8&feature=youtu.be