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You just can't screw down aluminium. The whole idea is ill for a long lasting street bike. Sooner or later it comes loose when the Alu has crept away, then the wheel starts moving and now it's only a question of rather short time until it fails. Hubert

I looked it up. That's a difficult task, indeed. Letzebuerg alone would make for a nice three day trip. I'll start Friday early, highway down to the Alps, and then I'll see. Probably St.Moritz again, or Spluegen via Thusis. I walked Thusis-Chiavenna 3 weeks ago, took us 4 easy days. My left knee still hurts badly. It was Great nonetheless CU down at the altar Hubert

Aluminium tanks were mentioned as a replacement for the plastic one. I know a couple of people owning alu tanks, on Guzzis, SR500s, vintage bikes. All sooner or later had to face them leaking. Or I've seen them crying because a screwdriver fell right on the most bling part of its surface. I wouldn't worry about this plastic thing. The tanks are certified. I think they have to withstand a free fall test from 10m height or so. Nevertheless I miss the steel tank of the LMIII - fixing the tank bag was so much easier. Hubert

Well, it's your bike, if in doubt I wouldn't trust the internet neither. All I can say is the exhausts do glow at idle, on the sidestand. Mine do. The very thin QuatD tubes glow rather bright even. They don't do this while the bike's moving what cools them down sufficiently. Checking the valves is a good idea nevertheless, but as long as the bike runs well as usual I would say there's not much risk of serious damage. These engines are robust. hubert

Twice in a year? You really want to spend a day of your weekends to make a full tune-up adjustment session? How about just pressing the starter button (just in case it happens again next spring) and before that shift down while you approach the lights, gear for gear? Hubert

... so ride on. They do glow when the bike stands with the engine running. You're really sure it's been only one side? Only at idle? I wouldn't worry. Hubert

You can leave the mentioned parts alone. No need to recalibrate the tps every now and then, in fact it needs it never. ECU is locked anyway, you'd have to spent good money if you wanted to change this. The rest is bad contacts or bad connectors, quite common things for motorcycles Hubert

I'll look for pictures

Now I say really Thank You Paul. Will look at it tomorrow. Will you come to Mandello next week? Hubert

Thank you, Paul, most helpful. You know what the numbers stand for?

The point is, you can hardly do anything wrong here - unless you spare some parts. It's 100% the same system/principle as you have it at the brakes. If you push the plunger back into it's housing it can take some lever actions to get him in contact with the clutch again. What if you take the slave cylinder off again and pump the plunger carefully out 5 mm before remounting it? Maybe you have to take off the exhaust for that, but that's no problem. I would not reopen the line at this stage, bleeding is not really funny. The thing should work without this master spring, I guess, as others have it broken without noticing it. Hubert

somewhere else neither. It's such an old idea. In the seventies you could buy russian model engines quite similar to this. Probably it's the case that some old patents have become free now. It's some nice animation, not more. Hubert

Could you post a absolut value spark map, please? The actual one. Thx, Hubert

Any parts still laying around? Hubert

Natural re-born beauty

My best wishes for the boy. Have fun with him! Hubert

I've seen a couple of stock Grisos (4V and 8V) and also Stevios lately in Switzerland. The sound of the OEM cans is hard to beat on these bikes. Same with the styling, for me at least. Nice thing, they really sell actually, compared to the older models. Hubert

Al Gore, lobbyism and plastic tanks were different things I thought. Does my tank know what pol. direction I fancy? How that? Or, on the other hand, as our tanks are coming from Italy, is there any chance/risk Berlusconi's sex life will influence our's? Hubert

You must remove the timing cover as well. Only then the bushing which holds the O-ring can be pulled off. Then, with the cover off, it's an easy task to swap the shaft seal also. Make sure it's not the cover that's just cracked. hubert

Yes, that's what the forum says. In fact E10 means 'up to 10% are allowed', it can be less. Same with E5 we have to buy since don't know when. Up to 5%. I never heard of swollen tanks here. On the other hand, for my lawnmower I usually take what I find in the garage, mostly gas used for washing parts in it. No probs either. Hubert

I like Henry's approach. Seems he's on for motorcycling when he's out for motorcycling, at least to 99.3%. Hubert

Technically speaking it's not a bad fuel. An austrian magazin (REITWAGEN) did a rather interesting series of articles about that stuff. Tenor was: use it. Basically the same was written in MOTORRAD. If you still are afraid of it or don't want to buy it because of political reasons you don't have to. Super95 in E5 quality still is available everywhere, and will probably be so for the next years. Guzzi officially says they're still testing or investigating or whatever. Hubert

No, it won't hurt your engine and the bike won't perform badly because of such mods. Nevertheless you should try to get the bike properly working as it is before you do any changes to it. Without a stable platform you'll never be able to say what any changes in the setup have changed. hubert

That's how such things were done in pre-forum times, I guess. You've got my smpathies hubert