annoying rattle , anyone recognise it please

[Charlie G]

My 650 does the same thing. I've put 7k miles on the bike that way and I don't intend to do anything about it till it gets worse.

cg

[janner]

Sounds like a lot of unnecessary work.

How is it unnecessary ? the bike is missing under acceleration, meaning I cannot ride the damn thing, The oil smelt of fuel , meaning may be petcock issue , and I have a knocking noise that may be a cam chain tensioner issue that can only be attempted with the carbs off, So as the carbs have to come off to be dipped and new o rings fitted etc so wouldnt that be a good time to sort things out ?? What part of unnecessary am i missing ?? You also stated that I could not run an engine in your earlier post, when I never mentioned running the engine with the carbs off !! Am I missing something here or are you the forum comedian ?