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I cannot be surprised. My Sport had to come off the lift (her foot-lighted plinth/dais) while the sorry, old Honda GB500 Tourist Trophy gets all the attention. SHE (my Sport) almost instantly started spilling fork oil as never before. Then gearoil . . . "An Italian woman will stab you for no reason at all." -unattributed Henri Metisse, 1916

Such (should be obvious, but?) square peg/round hole wisdom. It is why I ask before dragging my hairy knuckles into these sorts of things . . .

Ok, gotta get me some o'them. I have a selection of dental picks, but they are very hard and rather brittle.

This is the image from Post#1 that SoCalKevin posted a few years ago of our V11 fork seal retention. I am changing my original fork seals, so am trying to prepare for the event. I am no > Seal Whisperer < . . . I've dealt with these wire springs clips before, and recall there is nowhere to get a purchase in them save for one of the ends. I found the video unhelpful (except that YooToob popped up some rockin' Beth Hart as a tease.) So, since we're not actually trying to work on whatever is in that video (like auto transmission components or whatever), but actually the V11 fork seals: Does the retention ring have to be "compressed as much as possible" before clearing the groove, or can it be "chased" out of the groove once one end gets teased free?

What would be your approach to this one, @Lucky Phil?

You know how the YouTube Rabbit Hole goes. You start searching videos on replacing fork seals and removing snap rings and click on something diversionary, but interesting. Then you see your bass on stage with a Gold Top Les Paul. And Beth Hart. "Whole Lotta Love!" - indeed....

Getting staged to replace my original fork seals, so I watch this video again. This time, I see the third hand appear at 0:55 and 1:15. How many times have we needed one of those to appear from out of the frame?!?

So true . . .

Pretty interesting to study through 78 images with good light and decent resolution. The bike is very well presented (well, you know: "bringatrailer"). The text is maybe 99% correct, yet with a few notable omissions that say the seller doesn't really know what's been done to the bike. Gonna be interesting to see the final sale price. I reckon the Coppa Italia is one of the two most desirable V11 (along with the Rosso Corsa). They are not my cuppa, yet I remain fantastically mystified that a finely fettled (ie: expertly molested), silver (like a Gambalunghino!), early RedFrame (Telaio Rosso !!) Sport is still worth more parted out . . .

@chamberlin! Glad to see you!!!! You're shopping???

Whew, I had to look . . . you're, what, 800 miles across the Coral sea from Brisbane? Yeah, that must make goozee parts a little hard to come by . . .

I feel like I have a > Decent Tune < on MySport lately. Gonna be fun to take some temp readings all around. So many variables. Like: at start up after idling a "few" minutes? After rolling in from a ride, but not after any hard riding? Pulled in, but not idling in no air flow for any length of time ? Not even minutes? No fan over the front of the motor? Soooo many variables to get comparable temps. 50ºF seems like a lot of difference, but IDK. If the exhaust temperature is, say, 500ºF, then 50ºF is 10% and, so: meh.

Whatever you use, clean/roughen the contact surfaces? Honor the clamping and curing times/temperatures. Probably rescue that Valeo, at least until the bush pilots fly a replacement in to you . . . My life with machines would not be the same without JBWeld . . .

The tire smudge is the light point to be matched up the the heavy wheel point (valve stem)?

I better get a roll, then. Pretty sure My Sport (and her starter) already heard y'all crowing about this . . . . won't be far down the VooDoo chain now . . .

Absolutely. This thread is golden. Applies to all of our V11 and worth the effort! Lucky Phil rocked this one!

I always felt that way about liquid fuel pressure gauges under the dashes of our hotrods. Always looked like one hoseclamp away from an octane soaked pantleg. Not that there could have been an ignition source in the cabin back in those days . . .

Beware of Step #5: "Oven Cure" to coincide when momma is away on shopping or otherwise distracted from her kitchen . . .

"Magnet Bonding Adhesive" . . . Wow, who knew? (besides gstallons . . . )

The Moto Guzzi Parts Catalog I have (translated to English) calls this the "Tie Rod" and Ball Joints." As to this topic's "eccentric adjustment", I'm pretty sure my personal "Eccentricity Adjuster" is twisted pretty high up the scale . . .

South'n SpineRaid TechSession? We'll generate a Venn Diagram . . . or a Bell Curve. Or a shrug and another round of brews . . .

Always so interesting, yet mystifying. My Sport is 3/2000 and has the smooth alloy exhaust flanges and the side plates never faded to pink. Not that Guzzi ever made changes all at once, at a particular inception date.

@gstallons says that every year. For-like-forever now. I wrote him a note and everything. Oh, wait. I wrote ever-damn-body a note . . . Get There. Bring Tools.

Well, now y'all have me interested in this temperature difference between the cylinders. I have one of those (cheap) infra-red temp readers. But where to take the temperature? The lateral cylinder wall just below the spark plug (not the head)? Or dead on the exhaust flange? Bad Scientists want to know . . .

Those are the factory LaFranchoni on the LeMans. Original levers, Vacuum tube still attached to the intakes, front side reflectors intact. Looks good. Right, so, a 2005 original-looking LeMans with 31,000 miles for $5200US? Hmmmm . . . Is there definitely a "5" in the tenth character of the VIN? (2005 models were not many AFAIK.)