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Oh, boy! I think I have a winner! 😜

I have never had any success with my Triplett meter finding a bad TPS using millivolts. On the other hand, they reveal themselves readily reading resistance while slowly opening/closing looking for jumps in the reading (bad). BTW, idle TPS mV is somewhere in the 400-500+ range, while the 150(157) is the fully closed baseline with the right throttle plate closed against the bore without the linkage, right stop screw, or high idle cam interfering.

This is so cool! An authentic Norton with family provenance. 😎 I propose a fly&ride&ship&fly (South’n Spine Raid, baby!!)

You can use your 27mm axle nut for that duty, bud . . .

75 mile shakedown ride today looking forward to SSR XV, nine weeks out. Very nearly 400 miles since moving the prop shaft to the replacement reardrive and installing all the new spacers and bearings . . . . (Trying to earn the "Waving Wrench" emoji back )

I have never seen an issue with (not) pre-filling the V11 filter. There have been well documented issues with the UFI gasket failures and under-tightening. Seriously, tightening 1 1/8 turn past contact is not something I made up. Look at Ryland3210's research and test methods to assess this known issue. My WIX filter goes on WAY tighter than I would have thought. Torqued on. https://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?/topic/9670-oil-filter-loosening-info/

Oil pressure sensor is on the left, top, front of the engine block just above the cam/timing/phase sensor. Visually inspect, but . . . . The OEM UFI had serious gasket failure issues. As in: they won't stay tight. Consider accessing the filter and feel if the oil filter spins off by hand. Using alternative, quality filters is well advised along with tightening them 1 1/8 (one and one-eighth) turns after the oiled gasket makes contact. (Much tighter than I was taught to install filters "finger-tight" on American cars back in the day.)

Notice how our seasoned V11-ist, czakky, knew not to bite on the "Fuel Trapped in the Tank Test" lest I re-post the test image (avert yer eyes!). So, it seems the Spooge Trap (collection point for fuel vent and overflow) continues to gather what is largely raw fuel. Perhaps it is simply siphoning off my fill-up and could be pushed by the old Nylon tank changing shape from temperature changes from high outdoor/operating temperatures to the "controlled environs" the Sport is privileged to be parked in. I did find the clever rubber stopper was not rated for fuel exposure and was deteriorating. I've installed an inverted "vacuum cap," but time will tell if it is Viton or Buna-N or something that will stand up to the raw fuel . . .

Perhaps it got installed without the calibrated spacing shim?

Thanks for showing your impressive miles, Paul! Everyone knows how excited I am about the "miles" on my Sport. My goal is to make 200.000 km. It used to be to get ahead of Andy York, but that ain't never happenin', no way. Pretty sure Andy has the highest mileage V11 in the world. Pretty cool he's less than an hour from me. I'm just tryin' to help him get a quarter million miles between us . . . Between two V11, luhbo also has some admirable kilometers . . . (Hey, post your miles/km with your V11, y'all! An image would be nice, too . . .)

The 1200Sport continues to impress. Along with Goofman, this is a class act!

fotoguzzi is having his images hosted on smugmug. Others use flickr or similar services. I use imgzeit because its inexpensive, simple, fast and does no tracking or ads. Helps that I trust the developer (my son, v7cafe ) . . .

Make sure the motor is u to operating temperature and retry to set the CO with guzzidiag. If that does not solve it, we can move to "what's next most."

Da'gum. Here, I just replaced my axle nuts and totally missed the opportunity to say, "I have titanium nuts."

Haha! Well, Spine Raiders keep coming from further away and more States. We have yet to host a Raider from any really far-flung place like Varsseveld, Bungendore, Eindhoven, Coburg, or New Zealand. Or even British Columbia! We'll make room at the inn, y'all!

I always wanted a vintage bike. Now my first bike, bought new, is thirty years old and sports an antique plate. And the V11 Sport turns nineteen in about a month . . . Not that "nineteen" and "V11 Sport", together, are a bad thing . . .

Pretty sure this will be the first South'n Spine Raid to host a Michigander!

The broken spring was not common on the early bikes, true. Hard to tell much from the poor pictures, but in the image in your post, it looks like the shifter is resting on the frame side plate . . . Gearbox recall was for improperly heat treated "shift dogs" and replacement of the cush drive stack internal to the gearbox. The recall notice says the "sliding sleeves" may fracture, but I don't remember hearing of any wheel lock-ups (?). Mostly they just turned from a 6 speed with one neutral to a 6speed with six neutrals.

Imagine if it has a common broken shift pawl spring. That doesn't even require a gasket to change. I mean, maybe the guy knows exactly what's broken, but he says he is no mechanic and no one there to work on it. I don't recall ever hearing of a V11 with a broken "shift fork."

As in: the shift lever stays in the down position? Hmm, that might not be a broken "shift fork" . . . .

So, a V10-11 badass Greenie? Not just bench jewelry, I'd wager . . .

Yeah, the material of the "rear fairings" (tail sections) changed and I wonder if the money paw traps interchange. There are at least a couple guys here with both, so maybe we'll find out. I suppose most folks parting out a V11 would leave the monkey paw trap in the tail section for sale . . . Pretty sure your Rosso Mandello would have the "soft pocket."

Good, good. I just couldn't remember if you're mounting this to a Moggie Trike or what . . .

And your frame will connect a center spine plate to the front of the gearbox?

Personally, I so value that second point.