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Hi Yam I would also stick with the latest fuelling. My friends Quota did not enjoy fuelling up with Diesel. But regarding your problem: you may get some grid into with the new fuel or maybe water. Grid should remain in the fuel filter, water can go through it and cause misfires. Drain the fuel tank, renew the fuel filter and fill in clean gasoline.

Jackal rubbers do not fit the V11!

Hi Jim Valve adjustment is done, me too I prefer the 15/20 values for the V11. TPS adjustment with throttle synchronisation is next step. Maybe that will already cure the symptoms. If not check CO value at the popping rpm. Supposedly very lean. The ECU has a CO trim that can be adjusted using the Guzzidiag software. Check for this in the forum - it is cheap to get the necessary parts and easy to use.

I had the case when I torqued these12.9 screws with 43Nm the joint was still a loose fit on the gearbox output shaft. To overcome this I cut the slot in the yoke some mm deeper. Works.... The flat headed screws are useless - they won't stand the torque to be applied.

Look at the attached graph of my lambda measurements on my 2000 V11. The uppermost line is the stock bike (stock exhaust) at WOT. AFR at 2700 rpm goes leaner than 16 which is way to lean for a V11. When putting on a different exhaust, the situation may worsen easily. The lines below show the effect of my first changes on the fuel map.

The single pin calipers are an older design and were replaced by the dual pin calipers. All V11 are the later ones, 1100Sport, Centauro and Calis prior to 2000use the older single pins. A good choice for organic brake pads are the TRW Lucas MCB 683 without any suffix. I used them on various bikes and they always performed well. They wear slightly faster than sintered pads but contribute to disc life.

Ok, I understand your point and I agree. My point was related to an engine that suffered of very severe engine vibrations that could not be cured by simple anti vibrational measures. Disassembling a motor is in most instances not an option when vibrations are evident. When assembling an engine with different pistons, rods and other tuning parts, the engine is usually out of the frame and the necessary parts to balance the engine are at hand. The advantage of an engine balanced correctly is that vibrations must not be killed because they are not generated. If balancing the engine with the correct counterweight the vibrations generated are reduced to a theoretical minimum. When the level of vibrations is low or zero, parts will not resonate because they will not get stimulated. And there is an other big issue cured by balancing: The vibrations created by the rotating and oscillating engine parts will be transmitted via the big end and main bearings, engine mounts into the frame, handlebars, footpegs and so on. So the bearings must handle additionnal forces when the engine ist not balanced correctly. This contributes to additionnal wear in the bearings and reduced service life. These forces get higher when rpm climbs. If high rpms are a goal, balancing is important.

Hey Joe From my point of view this engine was missing some measures necessary: The hi comp pistons with a CR of 11:1 are over the top for a V11 in my opinion. The piston dome is higher, thus the compression chamber shape gets worse. And note: The big valve heads like in the V11 still have the worst combustion chamber shape of all Guzzi heads. The best solution to overcome this problem ist installing twin spark ignition which shortens the time to burn the air/fuel mixture. The Guzzi engineers invented this when they created the Breva engine. This leads us to the ignition map: The V11 has extremely high ignition advance figures. At max rpm and WOT the advance is 44° which works only with the low VE the standard engine generates. When you increase the pressure in the combustion chamber by either aspirating more air into or a higher CR, the engine burns the mixture faster which allows us to reduce iginition adance. The same goes for the twin spark: the mixture burns faster, ignition avance can be reduced. A PC can only address the mixture, with an appropriate ignition map your engine would have beeen performing a lot better, be it power or vibration level. The graph below shows the influence of ignition advance on power and torque on my own V11. The only difference between the two measurements is for the red curve ignition advance was reduced by 3° at full throttle which indicates the stock advance figures were over the top.

Sorry when I s´disagree in this respect, Balancing has no sweet spot. When your tire is out of balance, it will get worse the faster you drive. The same goes for the piston/rod/crank balance. Best example is your engine mentioned above: dead smooth at any rpm. If your engine was not balanced, then you were lucky to get the right parts together. The carillos are a lot lighter at the bottom end than standard rods which may contribute to the smooth engine.

Hi all Some of the red frame V11s had an issue with severe engine vibrations. There is no way to cure that with foam or silicone grips or bar end weights. I remember a road test in an italian motorcycle magazine by Alan Cathcart with a very early V11 that mentioned also the engine vibrations. My very much beloved black V11 from 2000 was also one of the bikes affected. I was happy with the bike until I changed bike with a friend of mine driving a Lemans3. He was shocked by the amount of vibrations generated by the engine. Me too experienced how smooth the old Lemans engine was running. The red frame V11s suffered of two factory rework issues: one related to the gearbox, the other to the conrods. For my chassis number only the gearox rework was listed and carried out by my fellow dealer. I suggest my bike suffered also the rod issue. Guzzi mentioned the rods were prone to crack on bikes frequently revved near the engine rpm limit. My conclusion was the rods on the affected bikes were too heavy and so the engine balance was out of spec. For my bike there was nothing to be had from Guzzi, so I decided to balance the crankshaft myself. At 9k km I dismounted the engine from the frame and teared it down to bits. I weighed all the parts necessary, calculated the master weight and put it on the crank pin using lead sheet stripes. The balancing was carried out only statically on a balancer very similar to tools used for tire balancing. My crankshaft needed removing of material mainly in the area of the crank pin. When the engine was completed and reinstalled, the running behavior was absolutely different: The severe vibrations were gone, the engine was almost smooth as the LM3 engine.

Weegie Did you ever have a look to the oil cooler of the Norge 8V? This is designed to work at the lower front of the fairing which could fit perfectly your Australia.

I also agree that this is the reason for the spark scatter at idle. The frontmost cam on the shaft is the last one to be active and therefore can rotate "back" when the follower is over the nose of the lobe. In fact it does not rotate back but shaft rotation ist slower before and faster after passing the top of the lobe. On old engines driven for a long time with chain slack, you can see a flat on the front cam... This is not just a theory, it can be proven - install a valtec type chain tensioner and check spark scatter with a timing light - you will see it disappeared compared with the slacky stock tensioner.

In my experiance, the 1100 Sport M1R fork is a better fork than all the different USD forks in the V11 - except the Öhlins units.

Hello In a carb 1100 sport the 6 speed box is more difficult to install. The front subframe is welded onto the frame, so you can't replace it by the V11 part. Also the bottom subframe needs to be replaced by the V11 part. This is the only way to get the engine/gearbox to the center. Rear drive and propshaft also need to be V11 parts. About the swing arm I am not sure of but supposedly too. For 1100ie and Centauro it is possible when you get the parts togethter.

Hi Docc This is not a must. Only if Meinolf cares about and changes the identification digits on the map. There can also be loaded a substantially changed map to the ECU which is not recognisible in Guzzidiag.