Ducati Sporting Club UK > Model Specific - Discussion, Technical Problems and Help > 998 / 996 / 916 / 748 > Help with cluncking noise

[Tantrum992]

Ive spent the last couple of nights in the garage cleaning the chain, sprockets, sprocket cover, chain guides and anything else that was caked in syrup and grit chain has always been well greased, trouble is it obviously never occured to the previous owner to clean off the old from time to time.
Well you know how it is, once you start a job like that you just keep going, took the fairings off last night and have just compiled a list of various types of furry fastenings ranging from jubilee clips to bolts that need replacing, clearly the bike has been used a fair bit in the rain and just left to dry probably the first time the fairings have been off for some simple TLC (apart from servicing)
Anyway, the reason for my post is, when i moved the bike from one end of the garage to the other and pulled on the brake there was a smll amount of dive on the forks and a "clunk" at first i thought it was the disks but it makes the same noise when just pushing down on the bars and lifting them, it sounds (as best as i can tell on my own) like it is coming from the fork internals I cant feel it through the bars and took it for a short ride on Saturday and heard/felt nothing.
Oh, and the head stock doe's feels tight.
Anyone got any ideas.

Cheers

Simon