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Yeah i think thats the most important part. Think I'm going to hunt for a good secondhand one in the meantime that comes off a lowmileage wrecked bike untill Honda has stock. Wasnt comfortable with the retensioning either.

The tensioners in South Africa you cant find pirated and have to buy form Honda only. Honda South Africa doesnt have stock of them and they dont know when they going to get due to the covid issues. All our customs has been stopped as well for any international postage. This was meant to be a temp fix until they can place the order for me. I was thinking of going ebay as well in the hopes of finding a new one and having it in SA in about 2 or 3 weeks.

Mine sounded the exact same but found it was the front one. Will go test ride today and see if the noise comes back.

is it recommended to change these parts out at a certain mileage interval as a guideline or only change these out once they start making noise.

Good day Members, Thank you for the responses. I decided to tackle this first. I removed the rear one as you remove the heat shield with the right foot peg. i cleaned it out and retensioned it. The sound remained at 60 Degrees. With all the panels off, I could hear the sound coming from the front of the engine. Decided to remove the tank, airbox and then remove the CCT on the top section without removing the throttle-bodies. I did find that the little metal gasket hole I couldn't see through and it seems as if the tensioner was dry. I made the hole in the CCT gasket a little bigger, retensioned and fitted it back. Bike idled to roughly 75 degrees and then i revved her a little. No noise. Will go ride it today and provide further feedback.

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Good day everyone, trust everyone is well. Seem to be having a concern with mt vfr800 2009 vtec. I have 43 000 kms on the clock. On cold start the bike is fine, but when it gets to about 60 degrees it starts making this weird noise.. klak klak klak klak klak sound.... the sound doesnt increase when i revv the bike up abit. Coming from the engine, cant tell if its top part of bottom part. Also just serviced with motul 5100 oil.