Please post Year and Miles of CCT failure
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I could ride in
SuperBike
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 1,729
From: Dayton, TN
Please post Year and Miles of CCT failure
also, any anecdotal thoughts as to warning and mode of operation at crux point, thanks! We need a statistical mean
for folks to get er done...!
for folks to get er done...!
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MotoGP
Joined: Aug 2007
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From: Way Out West
I've got about 13.5k miles on my bike without a failure. I've had some cam chain noise when cruising under very light load since 5k miles. It hasn't gotten any worse/louder in over 8 thousand miles. I was gonna wait 'till 16k when I need to do the valve clearance, but now you guys are making me nervous.
PS bike is an '03 purchased new in '05
PS bike is an '03 purchased new in '05
Last edited by RK1; Oct 16, 2008 at 07:56 PM.
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SuperBike
Joined: Jan 2008
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From: Beaverton, OR
Heard the rattle at 44k miles, got home parked it, and replaced the cct's so I didn't blow up the motor, and thus can't 100% say if it was really "the noise" or not. Also looks like previous owner may have replaced the rear one, but not the front, but can't tell for sure. Either way it was about time I would say.
Sexual Daredevil
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From: Mother Earth- orbiting around Charlotte, NC. But now over the border in S.C.
I replaced them both at 21K for good measure. Then at 38K the front one failed.
I am waiting on my APE CCTs from UPS as I type this. Come on Brown!
I am waiting on my APE CCTs from UPS as I type this. Come on Brown!
ReNoob
Squid
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 94
From: Sonoma County California
With all this I'm freaked I've got my legs wrapped around a ticking time bomb. The APE CCT for the Superhawk is the same model as for the CBR1000RR, is it not? So- do Honda I-4's spontaneously burst into grenades as well? 27.8K Miles on my bike, just ordered APE's yesterday.
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Squid
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 35
From: Westminster MD
Failure at 18k, replaced with new oem's at 30k now, I'm running it till it dies now. I guess i was lucky, I was idling up my driveway w/ the choke on fiddling w/ my mirrors somehow just jumped timing and didn't annihilate anything. I know other makes and models that have very similar problems too. Honestly the manual ones sound good but I guess we'll see about the "updated" Honda ones!
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Squid
Joined: Apr 2008
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From: Westminster MD
I forgot to mention I got mine cheap as a recovered theft that had been ragged out till the battery jump they did to steal it blew a fuse! I love this thing though, I'll never buy anything but a twin or triple.......cheers.
Duc Hawk
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From: Malibu's canyons
Most everyone is not indicating the model year of the bike that had a CCT fail. I think we are trying to find out if certain years are more prone to fail than others. Maybe it would be better to have this as a poll for the year then we can follow up with details on the mileage?
Last edited by Moto Man; Oct 17, 2008 at 10:25 AM.
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Superstock
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SuperBike
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From: Atlanta, GA
Most everyone is not indicating the model year of the bike that had a CCT fail. I think we are trying to find out if certain years are more prone to fail than others. Maybe it would be better to have this as a poll for the year then we can follow up with details on the mileage?
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MotoGP
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 4,138
From: Austin, Tx
You have to put a couple things in perspective. First off, most of the Superhawks out there are 98's because that was its biggest sales year. IIRC it was about a quarter million bikes - next year it was about half that and at the end of its run the Superhawk sold 60-80K bikes per year. Age seems to be less a factor than style of riding. One of the members here had a 01 that went down at 16k. Members here that replace tensioners in the mid-teens come back to do chains at thirty k. Like has been said. Preventative maintenance is the presumptive edge that a Superhawk (and a vast number of other Honda vehicles) require to avoid catastrophic damage to the engine.
The second thing is that most of the guys that have had failures don't hang here anymore. Some rebuild but most don't. It ends a chapter and guys move to other bikes. The guys here that have done the maintenance still have our Superhawks.
The second thing is that most of the guys that have had failures don't hang here anymore. Some rebuild but most don't. It ends a chapter and guys move to other bikes. The guys here that have done the maintenance still have our Superhawks.
Last edited by nuhawk; Oct 17, 2008 at 10:14 PM.
The Hypno-Toad
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From: Milwaukee, WI
Hey, I'm fixing my pile of a motorcycle. I'm not saying I'd ever buy another hawk, but I've already got this one and it's currently worthless, so there's nowhere but up.
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From: Austin, Tx
I know how you feel. I didn't have it happen to my Superhawk but it did happen to my Prelude. Cute little car that I dumped thousands into. I had no clue the valve train problems of the Honda bikes extended to their automobiles. When the timing belt gave out I crushed three of four cylinders.
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Squid
Joined: Aug 2005
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From: Tomball, TX
2000 model: rear failed in my 13th month of ownership, which I believe was about 5k miles. I was able to get it slid in under warranty. Happened again (rear) about 8 mos later at about 7500 total miles. Had it warrantied again. Happened again roughly a year later at less than 10k total and I finally said screw factory ccts, completely tore it down and replaced the affected valves, seals, pistons (no damage, just wanted the JEs) and installed the Apes. No problems for 5 years. So I went through 3 on the rear in less than 10k, never a front. Maybe it is riding style, but I'm really not that hard on my bike, though there was that minor broken crank issue a couple years ago...
