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The stuff I'm looking at is fully synthetic, non friction modified, recommended for high performance petrol gas and light diesel, 15w/60.

1800ppm Zn, close enough?

Tres svelte and with hardly a hip swivel.

I know I'm not asking for a date. If they are for sale and fit, I'm interested. I bet they're in great condition, colours would probably go very nicely with a Tenni... Would that much trimmer lad be about 5'10", a lean 170lb?You looking for a date or making a bid on my leathers?

Penrite HPR range are described as non friction modified and then : " Not suitable for diesel vehicles fitted with a DPF (Diesel Particulate Filter). HPR 15 features the Penrite EXTRA TEN in the oils SAE rating. The EXTRA TEN helps protect your engine by using an oil that has a higher viscosity at operating temperature than what is normally specified, thus providing better protection and reducing engine wear in all driving ..." Which sounds like modification of friction???

yup, even better than on the SFC. But too racer to be any use to me.

I bet they're in great condition, colours would probably go very nicely with a Tenni... Would that much trimmer lad be about 5'10", a lean 170lb?

The race is on to recover 2k of uncut H before the gangsters, the jailed guy's girlfriend, the crooked cops, or the good cops, or the next door neighbour girlscout troup leader with the chequered past get to it.

Oil isn't flying Amazon. Too heavy and too flammable! I wonder how different Scura and Tenni are under the ( badly painted ) cases. Afaik it's the same fragile single plate clutch. Don't know about piston sprayers. There may be geographic versions of the manual accounting for more hot dessert conditions in US than Europe?

Thanks, but my manual from thisoldtractor is a 2002 edition. I'm not following you re temp range. As I understand 5w40 is meant to cover freezing to "frying eggs on pavement". Yet many prefer going to a higher range of weights. In my case I don't ride winter and pretty hard to get over 33C but I climb a lot of long hills, sometimes held up following trucks. There is a semisynth 15w50 Diesel extra Zinc, recommended for bikes, I could get into instead. What do you reckon? Also, to add to my confusion, one of the old hands posted something about our motor fins being excessive and overcooling.

Older V11 manual calls for 5w40 synthetic, Repco has just that under Ten bucks a litre in the current catalogue sale. Penrite Australian stuff.

Maybe it was used to courier H in from Turkey, hence the high milage. As I understand it high milage bikes lose value quickly, putting the worth of that one more in line with other late model V11. Goodness knows how you would get it re-registered with that history. Here you would have to show bills of sale (sales contracts) between previous registered owner and subsequent buyers. Presumably the old rego is long dead but still in the system.

Snug at the wrap point of the small hook end, wherever that is, pawl or shift lever? Could be academic if we determine a best bedspring to bodge at 90°. It looks like the pawl was drilled and tapped for a screw, loctite? The nyloc nut on the other end is a mystery to me.

http://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16930&page=2I messaged the guy who got the magic fix, he is a current member, beggars belief that he wouldn't bump his mechanic's fix, that went 500 miles, at every opportunity, maybe it failed, but it sure looks feasible regardless.

I am intrigued by the 90° spring fix in the other thread I bumped earlier. With the right spring, properly fixed to the pawl? and nyloc nut! holding down the other end attached to what? Seems to have held up for 3 years, better odds than chucking a correct spring on a correct pawl, but waiting on the guy who posted it.

For all you know it's someones pride and joy stolen five years ago. Even it's the ex owner's he would be a lot happier getting out of jail and finding his bike still under cover. Not that I have too much sympathy with jailbirds but kicking a man while he's down doesn't sit right with me and I don't know what he did to get locked up.

The owner in jail still has legal title to the bike unless the property sale included all chattels, and it's not stolen property, and it's not someone else's stored bike ( who may also be locked up as an accessory ). Better search title before having at it.

This needs a thorough investigation.

Just when you think the water is safe. I thought the mod kit was about upgrading reliable shiftability. At least the kit "should" contain matching spring and pawl, so reducing incidence of spring failure, one would assume. Am I actually better off getting a new spring and filing my original pawl for a snug fit?

It was a Greenie that first caught my eye, never really thought the old Lemans were sexy until the offspring appeared.

That's cheap for gear oil. What about the 10w40?

Build your own frame and put a Tony Foale front end on, then you'll be the fastestest Guzzi round the twisties by miles.

Rain.. I wish, never seen it so brown here, 1st time the local cocky has ever ran out of water... Castrol GPS the semi syn is actually what I use, only just found the ENI in recent times at such a mean pricepray tell, what is 4L of ENI going for? I get the feeling I might have to pay full retail here.

Interestingly Repco's search engine for motorcycle oil yields bike specific oils and light diesel high Zn premium stuff on special. Someone at Repco is a biker.

Put in a query to Transdiesel site today and he got straight back. No pricing but said to go to local agent. So nobody has any objection to half a litre topup of GTX going in just for the week?