cam tensioners/shoes were replaced.
I'm up early and late to bed last night, GO FIGURE...
THE SOUND you describe sounds to me to be a CAM BEARING gone bad......
BUT NO noise when idling engine NOR when you goose it,. RIGHT? so NOT the cam bearings... ONLY when riding it down the street and no noise in 5 but every other gear... RIGHT?
The next place I would SUSPECT is the tranny as you say it makes noise in all gears but 5th.......NOW if that is right ? When in 5th gear(direct) it must take a load off tranny bearing and the noise is gone......
IF in engine it would do it ALL GEARS, 5th included, and at idle and goosing the engine , NOISE should show up.... BUT IT DOESN"T RIGHT?
when in 5th gear it must take off the load on the bad bearing...???
JUST MY THOUGHTS....
WE had some one get MAD with OUR little KIDDING AROUND last night,,,, SO PLEASE REMEMBER we are giving valuable time AS MEMBERS just like you ON THIS SITE..... WE answer questions just for FREE and the ANSWERS are WORTH JUST WHAT YOU PAY FOR THEM!!
Chopper was up late last night ALSO and he MAY have a more definitive answer than mine... so hang out there. probably ONLY on the NOISE...
IF THE noise is getting worse and I would NOT ride bike until it is fixed.. BUT you say 2 thousand of miles and it IS making a WORSE NOISE / HAS THE TRANNY FLUID LEVEL BEEN CHECKED AND WHAT COLOR IS the oil ON THE DIPSTICK.... MIGHT drain oil and if you have something gone bad in there it should show as a lot of METAL on the magnetic plug....
THAT being a good place to start.. so I SUGGEST do that and REPORT BACK.......
OLYMPIA HD is close to where I live here in wa. AND that is the place i bot my 97 dyna EVO back when they could charge$$$$$ 2500 to 3000 MORE than the suggested MSRP and they DID.....man,,,, I remember that was about $20,031 out the door? for a 1997 FXDS lic n tax incl'
that is called BIG BUCKS...
I bot my 2000 FXDS from DOWNTOWN HD and paid a little less....
signed....BUBBIE