diff --git a/lucene/core/src/test/org/apache/lucene/index/TestNorms.java b/lucene/core/src/test/org/apache/lucene/index/TestNorms.java
index 29fba3b5871..db27d1bfa83 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/test/org/apache/lucene/index/TestNorms.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/test/org/apache/lucene/index/TestNorms.java
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ public class TestNorms extends LuceneTestCase {
   public void testCustomEncoder() throws Exception {
     Directory dir = newDirectory();
     MockAnalyzer analyzer = new MockAnalyzer(random());
-    analyzer.setMaxTokenLength(TestUtil.nextInt(random(), 1, IndexWriter.MAX_TERM_LENGTH));
 
     IndexWriterConfig config = newIndexWriterConfig(TEST_VERSION_CURRENT, analyzer);
     config.setSimilarity(new CustomNormEncodingSimilarity());