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What with some miles/km rolling up on these lovelies, I thought it time for a dedicated throttle body thread. At ~112,000 miles, I'm having a tough time getting the Sport to idle and balance. The lower shaft on the left no longer seals and the linkage is quite loose on the right. I have replacement rack to install, then noticed another hi-miler (Andy York's LeMans) has a replacement set ready to go . . . So, let's share some insights and methods for the care and feeding of our throttle bodies . . .

This year's Greeny parade, 3 of 4. After 20 years still the biggest group, even without the other 4 KRs of other colours (2 and 2)

Update... I'm down to two springs available for sale. I'm keeping one with Chuck's engineering diagram in case we need to make another batch someday.

I truly admire and appreciate your dedication to maintaining your bike and the knowledge you share so clearly with our little community.

One in The Netherlands, 75000 km. Verzonden vanaf mijn iPad met Tapatalk

Gots em. Docc noticed a hammer in one of the first pictures I posted and said I must be a Guzzi mechanic. I was thinking about making a pile of them and taking a picture, but then I'd have to sort them back out.. so.. a few pix. In the Guzzi Garage ™ My favorite, and I'd recommend them to anyone doing mechanical work is the one on the left, a copper hammer. You can use it with impunity on steel parts without damaging them, or hit a hardened punch without sending a piece of it straight for your eyeball. A small ball peen in case somthing needs peened, a couple of plastic hammers, leather hammer, and a couple with no use on machines. 2016-10-31_05-11-10 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr The shop roll around: 2016-10-31_05-11-38 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr The hanger roll around. These are home made nylon hammers of different radii used with a shot bag (not pictured, it's not a hammer) to form sheet metal. 2016-10-31_05-12-24 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr Also in the hanger roll around, the ubiquitous copper hammer (everybody needs one) 2016-10-31_05-13-46 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr I suppose this qualifies.. a planishing hammer, also for forming sheet metal. 2016-10-31_05-12-38 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr A couple of body hammers, homemade English panel beater's hammer for shrinking bumps, and a shrinking file, which is used as a hammer for shrinking. 2016-10-31_05-12-58 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr Two different rivet hammers for..uhhh.. driving rivets. 2016-10-31_05-13-23 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr I've said many times that having the proper tool is generally the biggest part of the job. Hammers? Yeah. Edit: Oh, forgot the machinist's hammer and jeweler's hammer in my Gerstener box. Sorry, didn't take a picture of them, Docc.

welcome back brenwin. I recommend imgzeit as well.

Curious,,, will the replacement rack recieve attention, injectors delivering sort of the same amount of fuel, cleaning them 2ways. More school work. I never use the word regret,, but If I had been doing this much reading at school as here,,,, oh well. Cheers tom.

Thanks Docc , appreciate the info and will hopefully get some pics up soon .

I have been impressed with Haulbikes

IPA process, usually around 7.6% Cheers tom Sent fra min SM-G903F via Tapatalk

Keyboard Carriage . They started hauling pianos . They move motorcycles too . You just tell them where the pick-up and delivery locations . they coordinate the moves so you have to be patient . You get better prices working with them this way . I met them when I picked up my bike . they were hauling some pricey bikes in their trailer .

500 mile inspection after the new spacers, new wheel bearings, and replacement reardrive (including moving the shaft to the pinion). With the exception of a little excess Klüber Staburags grease to wipe off from the drive hub, all bearings are smooth with no lateral play, no signs of gear oil, no pinion play what-so-ever, shaft witness marks spot on, no metal on the drain plug. Discarding the "flush" oil (50:50 Redline SP/LW and 70-90 Mob1) and refilling with straight RLSP/LW. Eight weeks to the South'n Spine Raid . . .

2000 V11 Sport. 45000KMS. Hoping to break 60,000KMS this year. Located in Calgary Alberta Canada. Cheers

One in NSW Jervis Bay area Australia This Cafe Sport was first regestered in the UK owner moved to Aust. I am the third owner as far as I know. Sent from my SM-A530F using Tapatalk

42,000 klms and going fine. Still running in.

Thanks for showing your impressive miles, Paul! Everyone knows how excited I am about the "miles" on my Sport. My goal is to make 200.000 km. It used to be to get ahead of Andy York, but that ain't never happenin', no way. Pretty sure Andy has the highest mileage V11 in the world. Pretty cool he's less than an hour from me. I'm just tryin' to help him get a quarter million miles between us . . . Between two V11, luhbo also has some admirable kilometers . . . (Hey, post your miles/km with your V11, y'all! An image would be nice, too . . .)

2000 V11 Sport Second owner, 90,000 miles and rising Paul B. Lake Powell AZ

A humbling collection!