po18guy

After three cancers and a stem cell transplant, the entire past 13 years have been an anomaly. The immune system transplanted into me is hyper-vigilant, which has lead to 6 years of various immune suppression schemes. I suspect that, were my immune system not suppressed, I might already be on the adverse advents log. This is an emergency vaccine that was given the US go-ahead only under emergency conditions. Data is being collected and I am convinced that the truth is being carefully filtered if not completely disregarded in certain cases. Government does many things very poorly. What they have perfected is obfuscation, half-truths and flat out lies. I worked in government for 31 years. I did not trust it before I took the job. Nothing in those 31 years changed my opinion.

So, being a good subserviant renevue source for the government, I lined up and got my two Pfizer injections. I am now in my 3rd week of fevers up to 39C, muscle aches, chest tightness, cough, arthritic joint pain, and blood oxygen down from 99-100% to 88-95%, plus acid reflux and general malaise. Some try to tell me that it's just a coincidence. BS. Anyway full blood work and a hematology visit tomorrow. This stuff is not Tylenol/Paracetamol.

I would not rule Avon out. I live near rainy Seattle and tyres from a rainy nation fill the bill rather well.

Bridgestone's promo for the BT46 shows a 70s V7 Sport.

The BT45 was a bias-ply/cross-ply tire. Now upgraded to BT46, it is reputedly excellent for the earlier Guzzis. Am pondering something slightly more modern than the Road 3s I have now. A distinctly rounded profile that does not seem completely happy on a long-frame.

Single downdraft Weber IDF44 w/chokes. I sincerely hope the jetting is done. On the plus side, with 1/2 of the bike stripped away, it probably weighs only about 525lbs.

It is clear to me from my TPS adjusting that there is far too much play radially and axially for a sensitive electronic device. Gonna have another look.

Has no one made any attempt to remedy this? Is the TPS just trash?

I am going to stare at the TPS and contemplate how to make a vernier adjustment so that the reading does not zip from 100Mv to 99 trillion with one tiny slip.

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Right now, I'm listening to this. No! Not Jay Leno - the Alfa.

Ah, yes. Such easily overlooked things as an overzealous application of insulation to the battery cables. This one was actually OK, but just barely. I cleaned the extra bit away, gave it a bit of a brush and DeoxIt'ed the heck out of it.

Indeed. And that type of T5 socket rubber absolutely welds itself to the gauge sockets. I had quite a time getting them out. They went back in with silicone paste.

Voltmeter/clock/thermometer. Draws milliamps. I have heard the "sidelight" called a city beam, as opposed to dipped beam. A lot of old VWs etc. have them.

Brilliant! The mark of an XS650 owner.

Am wondering if there is a "reasonably" handy switched 12V source near the instruments/ignition switch? Having never had the instruments or ignition switch off the bike, dunno if there is a handy spot that can be tapped into. Like 22ga. wire.

Bottom line is that the value of all other US Scuras just went up a bit.

Part number GU01766880 (#6 on the diagram). My intention is to mount a clock on it. This is apparently unique to the high-barred models, i.e. V11 naked, Ballabio, Cafe Sport. Will consider new or used. Live in NW USA.

All those Guzzis and a 1964 Galaxie as well! 390, 406 or 427 perhaps? I thought the Swedes had bought all of those.

$500 parts bike. "If" the wheels are straight and the Odyssey is good. T-boned at an intersection? The crushed LaFranconi shows serious impact and the spine is bent clockwise something like 20º

A shame, really. After all of that, one would like to keep it round awhile longer. From a fellow Ballabisti.

The oil sensor needs to be relocated to your lower legs. Odd that the gaskets are always sucked inward. Either there is excellent oil drainage (crankcase vacuum passage) or the crankcase has a hyper-scavenging system. Might explain a few of the oily airboxes and mystery leaks. Anyway, the MG cycle "good" gaskets solve the problem. I was waiting for the right side to fail, but it's valve adjustment time now, so it's all part of the deal. Decades ago, my Yam TX650 had a similar problem, but worse as it is a 360º and crankcase pressure fluctuations are huge. There was but a single 12mm hose on the rear of the head to deal with the oil vapor. IIRC, it was routed under the engine at the swingarm pivot. I added a second hose and ran them through the top of the countershaft cover so that the vapor would condense and lube the chain. Took a 15K mile trip around the US in '78 and never had to lube or adjust the chain.

Oil pressure switches. Had a Toyota Tercel 4WD whose oil light would flicker, then say on. Rev the engine and it would go off, but steady RPMs, no matter how high, it would come back on. Torn diaphragm. Revving spikes the pressure and will break the internal ground, whereas steady RPM will allow the oil to flow past the diaphragm and the spring will make ground. Look for suspicious seepage or drips at the sending unit. "Dead" giveaway.

That, good sir, is someone else's problem. As long as the source is in Cali - where everything causes cancer, no problem.