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thank you very much, I'm getting past the financial hit and taking it as a steep learning curve about buying bikes online. in reality I am very excited about this bike. I have rescued numerous sport bikes, so the condition doesn't scare me. what really impresses me about guzzi ownership is the owners. So far the people I have met are very passionate about their bikes. I don't think there is any other brand with so many one owner bikes. Fortunately for me i have two fantastic guzzi dealers within a few hundred miles of me. i will post up more pictures and details when i get the bike home. thanks!!

I believe they changed to the wider tail piece in 1997. Paul B

Good suggestions there. An electric heat gun can slowly heat the pan to 100-120°C without causing any damage. Remember that it gets to that temperature normally on a hot day in slow traffic. An infrared thermometer lets you check. It will take a while,as the castings are very thermally conductive, so you will be heating the crank case too. The heat softens most sealants and glues. Then gradual force from wood or plastic wedges can progressively open gaps for more wedges. BTW, thanks @docc for keeping this forum from going toxic. The world needs good moderators.

I bought a tailpiece on eBay just to get the pillion cover, and that it was yellow matching my bike. I paid too much for just the pillion, but figured I'd have the spare tail on the shelf. I thought the tailpiece was the accessory flat-sided tail, but now I think it's from a Daytona. Can anyone confirm, and would anyone like it as a spare? I'll just shelf it. As for the pillion cover, I'm going to take it to the local boatbuilders and see if I can get someone to reproduce it in high-quality fiberglass and perhaps fit it a little more closely to reduce the big gaps they apparently all have.

well, I'm new here so I will introduce myself. I've been active in sport bikes for years, and have owned at least one of every japanese crotch rocket, and a few ducatis, but never a guzzi. i currrently have 6 bikes in the garage, and was scrolling through sale adds late and night and discovered this guy on a copart auction. as i am a complete and utter moron, i didn't read the terms and conditions. my "winning" bid of $650, turned into $1800 after auction fees, broker fees, and doc fees. the true kick in the gut came when the broker hit me with a $2200 shipping charge, making my $650 bike a $4121 purchase. of course this was all spelled out in the fine print, that i didn't read. i'm trying to make the best of it, as i am truly excited about the bike https://carsfromwest.com/en/lot/copart-42837292

Late to the party here. If they're going to be available, I'll commit to a black one. It would be nice to see pics of the various samples.

Boy O Boy, after searching some more it looks like there are three tail pieces depending on model and not necessarily year. The two you have and then there is a third like your top one that has ducts cut out rearward of the front bolt hole. Looks like the Daytonas used both. Where is Medic Andy when you need him? Paul B

Steel bushes often split style with various coatings. I used them for the throttle body bush repairs and are the std fitment from Weber. The fork bushes are the same. http://www.thyssing.com.au/products/glacier-garlock-bearings-ggb-bearings/du-bush/

Yup........... we are. Congrats on the acquisition. Ciao

$2200 shipping ? Yeow !

Cool. Stand by for a dedicated thread on your LeMans. Let me know if you want a different title . . . https://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?/topic/24777-2003-lemans-come-back/

I bought the beautiful billet shifter/brake levers from Harper's not long after I bought the bike. Somewhere along the way I've noticed that there's more play in the pivot bushings of the shifter than I like, so I ordered new bushings. Upon disassembly and inspection, I found that the stock (most likely stock) bolt is 110mm long, and leaves just about 10mm of threads on the bushing side of the inner nutplate/mount. So the threads and bushing on the inside are hammered. I ordered a new Stainless bolt from McMaster 120mm long, which should get the threads out of the bushing, though I'll have to trim the length of the threads once installed. https://www.mcmaster.com/92290A805/ While there, I pulled back the rubbers from the shift linkage and packed them with the open gear/cable grease I use for my driveshaft splines. They were in fine shape anyway.

Here’s my V11. One-off exhaust and exhaust hangers. Aqua dipped hugger. Racing ECU. Absolutely gorgeous! Had to paste a link because otherwise the pic had to be too grainy. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmC04kaAl5HQlNM9IFliCk9pyFt14A?e=BRZ3Vn

I would think you could go with the 41mm kit . 41mm is 0.039 in larger than 40mm .

you need something with 52 mm od my old forks are 40mm might need to go to the hardware store and measure some PVC pipe

Hey, okay . . . thanks for the intro. You could not be in a better place to sort out that needy LeMans. You can count on us to throw in. (We cain't he'p ourselves . . . ) I think this LeMans deserves a thread of its own. I can split these posts off and start one for you, @cory464 . . . [edit: done]

At risk of confirming effetist tendencies some have long suspected, I am annoyed just now as FedEx has lost my shipment of Illy, due yesterday when we ran out. "No delivery date scheduled; pending" the website says. I suppose I will survive on some blackish swill from Martin's. After all, my mom made "erzatz coffee" in Germany during WWII. There were various "recipes," but her "favorite" was to burn toast and scrape the black stuff into hot water. We are blessed people today. Now, as for SSR 2022, Kathi and I look forward to it. Bill

I know I'm a painfully slow mechanic, and I have to learn or relearn just about everything I do, but there's a reason I don't trust my bike with shop mechanics. With it stuck on so bad and the fastenings so tight and you can't see a colored sealant,,,,, Just a wag, but the mechanic probably got shit once before, because a customer's bike came back with a leaking sump gasket; he's obviously gone overboard to make sure that didn't happen with yours, I bet he's got it sealed up tight with YamaBond or similar product. Very lucky all your sump bolts weren't stripped

The only other issue I didn't mention, all of the fasteners were over tightened. They were lipstick marked and my guess is they guy might've gotten his metric torque numbers confused with his SAE muscles. I've had the pan off many times and never had the fasteners so tight. I tried to remove it when the bike was stone cold. Used a light mallet with no luck. So I filled with oil and reinstalled the bolts. I'm guessing it will take heat and maybe some high strength fishing line. Or some other technique TBD.