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Well I managed to get the engine upright on the bench with the help of my son who visited last night. This is one heavy sucker. God knows how I'm going to get it off the bench once the front cover etc is on, maybe a 3 man job. getting it upright allowed me to fill the engine with oil and go through a pre oiling procedure. Put a pair of 13mm nuts on the oil pump drive and rotated it with my battery drill until oil emerged from the front main and cam bearings. Pulled the rocker covers and yep,oil in the heads and rocker pins. Now to assemble the front of the engine and do the cam timing. Oil present and accounted for. Ciao

PF3C arrived today, now installed. Well, it is a beautiful thing to watch the Ohms rise and fall perfectly smoothly on a fresh TPS. Hoping for a brief test ride tomorrow, but the coming weekend will tell the tale. I'll be adding the resistance test to the Decent Tune-up. After all, once the DVOM is hooked up to baseline the TPS to 157 mV, it is really simple to switch over to Ohms and look at how smooth the potentiometer (TPS) is functioning. I have never been able to catch a bad TPS watching the change in millivolts, but in the 2000 Ohm range the resistance variation (jumping around) opening and closing the TPS is obvious. Pretty sure Meinolf has said that a bad TPS can be seen in guzzidiag watching degrees of opening while opening and closing the throttle.

And I may or may have not emailed the company to get more information on pricing...

Not to be trouble but , what is wrong at 30k ish ?

Cool thanks. Kind hate to touch seal surfaces as I have way too much English blood in my family history.... As in everything I touch weeps oil.....

so was it my helmet or not brushing my teeth?

This is copied from another place: (EDIT/May 2019): Having had two TPS go bad after 50,000-62,000 miles/ 79.000-100.000 km, it is simple enough to check the TPS when it is hooked up to the DVOM (Digital-Volt-Ohm-Meter) . Switch the DVOM to resistance in the 2000 Ohm range with the key off. Slowly and smoothly open and close the throttle body and observe for a smooth transition of increasing and decreasing resistance from the potentiometer (TPS). If there are jumps and glitches or drops and variations in the resistance, the TPS should be replaced. Be certain to set the DVOM back to > DC voltage < before baselining the TPS in millivolts or you'll think something is terribly wrong! I have both analog and digital multimeters. I would think that the analog version would be better to read. Anyone have tried this? (I will try with both instruments in a week or 2). Rolf

I am not too worried about brushing my teeth when I ride. I start with Moto Guzzi boots I got at a discount 7 years ago, now resoled, I wear jeans but if I am in for a distance, I'll put on Joe Rocket mesh overpants or some ripped no-name overpants I purchased on a ride (glad I got them because the rip would be on my knee). I put on my jacket, The Speed and Strength textile works best, but I have two Joe Rocket Mesh (original and 4.0) and two leather ones I never wear after I bought S&S. Then I put in my custom ear plugs (essential). And a skull cap. Next is the helmet, usually my Shoei Neotec, but I have two HJC modulars, two HJC Snells, and a BiLT 3/4. Most are out of date. Finally gloves, too many to list but my favorites are some sport BiLT. with all that gear on I can ride from Oklahoma to Stonehenge and I've got photos to prove it. Steal Your Face..................

If you drink enough coffee, it comes out from your pores.

...you can use the AMEX as both an underarm scraper and dental floss.