The CB1100 Community Forum

Hello,

i still haven´t got a CB1100 ( hope, i can purchase one this autumn, so excuse me for making proposals), but i´ve read a lot about it. When i found the problem-theads people had about strange sounds and the solutions they discovered, many times the brotherhood of CB1100 riders asked them for sound files or pointed them to threads where sound files were provided. Sometimes the problem was the Idle Air Control Valve (IACV), maybe the wrong oil, the crank, valves, whatever. Others ride their bike and don't know, if there are some strange things happening in the engine because they have no comparison. Me, for my part, if i (hopefully) purchase the CB1100EX (it´s already getting colder), would like to know, how a healthy motor sounds, but i will not know because i have no comparison.
On the other side, there are numerous threads about noises from the CB1100 and often, there are also solutions, but they are spreaded all over the forum and are hard to find, so maybe it would be helpful to provide a sound library for the CB1100 with "strange" (or normal) sounds and their presumably solutions? (It would be not a big deal, just a new thread with the gathered sounds and the solutions the owners discovered)

The sound files should be recorded in a roughly standardized manner, and the supposed solution (or the possible solution, nothing more) so if someone would have a problem, he could search the sound library for a similar sound to have a first guess what could be wrong. Maybe this would be a help in recognizing and finding problems.

regards

bad idea, sound files will only make things more confusing and lead to falls assumptions and wrong diagnostics.
the reason as you stated already is that nobody can make sound files 'in a roughly standardized manner'

why would you rely on sound files as a solutions for problems in the first place?...very strange method.

rely on your mechanic, pictures and findings of others that share a same issue and you'll go a lot further than on a sound file library.

lol

(08-18-2016, 07:53 AM)Riko_imp Wrote: [ -> ]bad idea, sound files will only make things more confusing and lead to falls assumptions and wrong diagnostics.
the reason as you stated already is that nobody can make sound files 'in a roughly standardized manner'

why would you rely on sound files as a solutions for problems in the first place?...very strange method.

rely on your mechanic, pictures and findings of others that share a same issue and you'll go a lot further than on a sound file library.

lol

I still don´t think it is a bad idea, as long as if there is a standardized recording. I observed some times that people send their sound files when they discovered a problem and other were able to help them. So i think it would still be a good idea if that worked in that cases.

more pure luck than an actual problem solving method...

I bet the issue got solved because the issue had a very specific and known sound.

If someone wants to post of video/audio of noises on the CB1100 they are free to do so, although unless there was a very obvious not normal sound diagnosing issues that way would prove difficult because air cooled motors make lots of mechanical sounds you would never hear in a water cooled machine.