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Rough Maths ( Stand Height @ porkchop - porkchop height - front chock lift ) /=/ ( rear droop + rear wheel clearance) Assumes stand is roughly in the middle.

And how high the nuts with the stand propped on 4x2?

A volunteer! Please measure the height of the lower porkchop bolt off the floor when stand up. Also, how high is the rear tyre off the ground? With the preload cranked up on my Ohlins, I have to put a 4x4 block under the factory stand handle to get the rear tire to clear the floor about an inch.Thanks, I hadn't forgotten about variations in suspensions, sitting on the ground, how high is your porkchop bolt?

I might be lucky to buy a pair of suitable wheels for $25 here. My cunning plan involves scraps of timber, minimally high enough to get the rear wheel in the air in the resting position.

A volunteer! Please measure the height of the lower porkchop bolt off the floor when stand up. Also, how high is the rear tyre off the ground?

Injecting whatever crud is on the sprung bearing seal along with fresh grease, would be kinda one step forward, two steps back.

Same but different. The rear has a small clean collar section on the shaft joining the yoke. In that collar is the nipple for the spline lubing system, whereas the front yoke appears to be welded direct to the front section.

The factory stand is well and good. I don't have one and probably half of you don't either, so what are you using? It's not clear in any photo I've seen, where the stand latches on. I guess under the rear subframe just inside the bottom of the porkchops? I have a cunning plan ( I could be related to Baldrick too ), but before I embarrass myself and drop it, what works to get the rear off the ground and level?

Armed with my hunch, my fresh finger discerns a nipple orientated same as the rear one. I feel like half the battle is won! So how do you clean up before trying to regrease? A bit of WD40 on a rag, good enough?

Guess or fact? Inquiring minds want to know... lol! It's purely a guess. You need to have eyeballed both to know. About all my finger can tell me is there is a greasy bump in there.

It occurred to me the rear U joint nipple is probably in the same orientation to the crux / shaft as the the front, when nipple is bottom side, might help visualising.

From a pure safety viewpoint, one bit of shrapnel would potentially ruin your whole week. And your bearings have had how much grease over 94,000 miles?

I wondering the purpose of the collar. Stopping a fragged U joint piece from going through your balls? Vital. Stopping stray boot laces from sucking you into the works. Pretty handy. Catching the drive shaft if the joint falls apart, preventing suspension tangling in it. Bonus? Containing slung off grease. Gimme some of that.

Mine runs fine on the pods but I am going to return it to airbox, for proper filtration. All I've read suggests the same minimal performance gains and even induction roar can be had with lid mods. Since you're mostly about the cosmetic look, check out the Guzzidiag pinned thread. There will surely be maps for pods already done.

Rear wheel removed, Guzzi on stand: many of us do not need to remove the wheel as stated before, "on stand" is enough. Here's a pic of the grease nipple. Nice pic, thanks, next best thing to me investing in dental mirrors! I should get my fingertips to make sense of it now. I found a swanky grease gun with flex hose, one handed trigger action, but it's BSP thread which is standard on grease guns here. Probably going to be some grinding of the nose to fit on as it's a porky little thing, might be 3/8 fitting, another possible explanation for the variance of ease getting on.

Rosso Corsa is old rear end, still symmetrical? Newer bikes may not fit.

There is only one burr on mine, on the finish of the exterior edge cut. Rest is clean cut aside from the weird clingon fluff.

Thanks Docc, I was looking for the one marked "not this one". Pictures really are worth 1000 words, except Scud's look like he's on the one I was looking for. Nevermind, on the right track now. So my shroud completely buries my front U joint. You can see the shoulders of the shaft in my photo before it disappears into the dark.I've yet to figure how to stand her up and droop the rear suspension, that might open the U at the top somewhat. I bet someone already said that and it didn't register with me.

same on mine, but half an hour wheeling forward and back, no nipple!

All I see looking up through the tunnel is variations of this. ??? Seems I have no front nipple.Yes, I need a rear hugger.

Wouldn't bin files actually belong to Guzzidiag? I know he gives them away for your personal use but storing them is different when 3rd parties start charging for tuning.

Taken from over the gearbox with porkchop removed?

Plastic seems likely. I torched some and it goes up in smoke. I might just torch the holes and give it a wipe. No acetone here.

Guzzidiag reflashes the ECU with your PC (laptop ftw) on the bike.

Or Keanu Reeves.