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I've searched and searched, havent found it detailed. Talked about, yes, detailed , no.

I am stymied...I'm pretty good about figuring things out but not this time. I can't get enough of the uni caps pressed out to get a decent purchase on them to weasle them out the rest of the way. The cross is too small to allow much movement when pressing out a side. I thought about drilling through one cap and letting a punch travel through the grease shaft to tap one cap out, but that still might not give me enough play then I'm stuck with a cap with a hole in it. Installing the new ones should be easy because the cross can be set it in first with the caps removed. I just can't get these caps moved enough to remove all the way.

Yep, I'm a pilot. The plane is loaded correctly according to cargo and passengers, just not front to back as is usually the case. Maybe I'm missing your point on how that affects flight characteristics when it is all in range before takeoff.

And I think I would love Iceland too, just havent spent enough time here other than plane changes.

My travel throughout Sweden and Denmark without a car was easy. Europe set this up decades ago with train stations in every city and then some. The US put its energy into the Interstate system. We will never improve on the way we travel, we just don't have the infrastucture and it aint starting now. We just add more lanes.

Sitting here waiting for first leg of return trip back to Oregon. Copenhagen to Reykjavik. Icelandic Air does something I've never seen any other airline do...load a plane from back to front. What a simple concept that works. What's with these American airlines anyway? I'm anxious to get back. Right before I left I picked up this beauty. Been looking for a while for a low milage single owner Griso. This one popped up less than 200 miles from me. So much to do to get ready to leave had no time to register it. But Monday morning it will be real easy for me to get up real early to be first in line at DMV after spending time here.

We did 7500 miles cross country one summer. Oregon to Virginia, DC, NJ and NY, then back. Saw so many places that would be so hard to see by flying. It was such a fantastic trip, as yours probably was!

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I had two folks wig out on me, so two pair still available. But you're in Germany. If I knew earlier, I could have brought some with me. I'm in Sweden now, just a tad closer.

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I think this is one of the most beautiful airplanes ever designed, along with the Lockheed Constellation. It can stir my soul just like an older Ducati 750 bevel or a V11. Something about the lines that just keep me looking. Isn't that what art does? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Not everything can spin your propeller, but this Piaggio Avanti does it for me.

I love the lines of this bike, so much so it is now sitting in my barn. Looked for a long time before a well kept one finally one popped up reasonably close to home. That muffler will be first to go. Then I can call it a custom build...

Here's the info on that greenie. Looks pretty clean, those colors really pop. https://www.cycletrader.com/listing/2000-Moto+Guzzi-V11+Sport-5027244008

To my knowledge there are four parts needed to perform upgrade. I dont know if all are available, but that's a service I'm not comfortable doing. 1- 04211201 1- 04212401 2- 04214901

That could happen, but if I was the owner who got turned down by a dealer to do a required recall, I would be rattling some cages until I got it done. Seeing two recall services done on the same bike would be a red flag to the mother ship. Then there's always the "could result in death" thing that could make things messy from a liability standpoint.

Yep, I think you got it. The online search site has that little line on the bottom that had me wondering about its accuracy with older bikes. Case in point...the seller, who is the original owner of the bike I am looking at swears he did not get the gearbox recall work done. The online recall site says no recall campaigns pending. So I call Piaggio in NYC, they run the number and say the recall campaign for flexible coupler hose is not satisfied. That ends it for me. The 2009 cutoff for the online site deems it unreliable IMO for older bikes with campaigns before 2009.

So here is where it gets more confusing to me. Owner swears he never had any recall work performed. He bought it new. I run the VIN through Piaggio recall, comes up clean, no campaigns outstanding. Italians!

Bid to $5200, reserve not met.

I have been searching for a well kept, low mileage, single owner V11 for a while now. I have found a few and missed out on them for one reason or another. Distance, price or recall status all factored in. I found a beauty but recall work was not performed. Owner said he brought it in to his dealer to get the service done, and dealer refused because MG wouldn't reimburse him enough. The owners of bikes like these usual reply to me when I ask about it is they have driven it for years and never had a problem. I then move on. I know if I got a notice in the mail way back when I would have acted on it immediately, no matter how many cages I had to rattle. So my question is...are there people riding on them all over without regard for this? I dont want to take an unnecessary risk. Being prudent seems like a very reasonable thing to do IMO.

Well maybe I can learn a lesson from that...we have an Avalon and Camry now and had many other Toyotas. I might ease into this gently. I'll push it to 7500 on the Camry.

Way too much info for me. I've been playing with ICE since I was 14 and never had an oil wear or friction problem. Most of the oil I have used over the years are Castrol products. If I have one oil related fault, I probably drop my oil sooner than recommended. Still can't wrap my head around advertised 10,000 mile oil.

@docc said...Since my factory crossover is very special to me, I would never change it out . . . Is there a story to that?