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Sounds like you have got partisan issues, pardner. Thats OKay, I have them too, just in the other direction. So, would you prefer a 63 corvair to a 64 with naderfied suspension? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair It is a shame that the Corvair flopped. Rear/Mid engines rock! But if a car is unsafe, let the heralds sing! I doubt you drive a Volvo. The most dangerous car I have ever driven is a Dodge Dart. Rubber bands for steering, No damping in the shocks, and bicycle calibers for brakes! But the slant six engines kept going and going.

FWIW I think that hose is made of vinyl. Pure crap for its intended purpose, but I guess it is easier to mold that the reinforced black rubber hoses.

I went with the Ford hose. I can't describe how I trimmed it, because I cannot remember, but I did trim it. All I know is that this hose needs trim. It was a bit tighter to squeeze on than the 3/4 inch ID heater hose, but so far, so good! PS Nogbad, just be happy the hose did not explode 100 miles from home. I know, you hate me....

Who is the pretty girl giving you the finger? I bet she has a crush on you, and does not know how to show her affection

Another possibility: If they could show that the bearing failed because of the grease washing out, you probably would not have a case as they could say you inproperly cleaned it with a hose, forcing the lubricant out....whether you did or not. But my money is on the spacer. If they already replaced the bearing without looking at the spacer, I recommend replacing it again, just to measure it. Yah, you would probably get another 10,000 miles out of it, but you would be risking the rear wheel locking up. There are some cheap sources for bearings, and you can get the spacer from JRT's inlaw, Bob, but dealers often refuse to use out sourced parts, so you may want someone other than your Guzzi dealer to do the work. But maybe they will understand that the spacer is a custom, unobtainable, part.

My bike was under warranty when I got charged for my first bearing. I was paying for tire change at the time, so it was not a big deal (to me(read SUCKER)). I think I paid $30. Make sure that they make sure that the spacer is longer than the space between the bearings. By longer I mean 0.1mm to 0.5mm longer. There should probably be a recall on the rear wheel bearing spacer, but it would probably take a Todd Haven to make it happen.... and then he would be putting another nail in the Guzzi coffin. Besides, what evidence do we have, four or five bearing failures on a forum of 1360 members, one of whome never posted until today. Guzzi warranties are crazy and inconsistent. About the best thing that we have heard on The Forum is Tenni forks getting replaced by Ohlins, but there are many stories of dealers not warrantying things that you could be sure to win in court. If your spacer is too short, I think you could win this one in court, or maybe even just with the threat of court, but it may not be worth it for your reputation with your dealer. Sometimes I think dealers view us as either a sucker or a bitcher. My advice is to save the threat of lawyers for a rainy day....perhaps that puts me into the sucker category. Or you can take a stand and save a few dollars. Or you can be like Ralph Nader and start the ball rolling for a recall and possibly save someone's life! I would do it, but I care more about Guzzi surviving than somebody dying, plus I am lazy...is that not pathetic....or maybe it is because there is just not enough evidence. What the heck, I'll at least sign an afidavit saying that my spacer appeared to be shorter than the space between the bearings.

Easy Bro' this time the USA is on Canada's side! We shall help you SQUASH Denmark into little Butter Cookies.

I have an off brand name one that looks identical to Carl's Red Unit. It has a kind of spring loaded ratchet that I do not trust, although it did save my bike. I suppose I should lower it into the ratcheted position.

Good Luck People. This one looks viscious.

I never got it stable enough on the porkchops to remove the lift. One thing to be careful of is losing hydraulic pressure. ie. put bike on lift, go to lunch, come back and see shattered dreams on the floor. PS thanx guys for the informative Dunwell bracket posts!

Oh yah, one of those dental spatulas would be perfect!

I use a couple of split 2x4s (one and half by one and three quarters)between the oil pan edge and the lift. I have to be careful not to put pressure on the oil line coming out of the pan. A metal frame to fit the pan would be more ideal, but the two pieces of wood work nicely because I can slide the lift under when the bike is on the kickstand, put one piece of wood on the lift, lean the bike against it, put the other piece on, and balance the bike between them while jacking it up. It is a little precarious and I could use a better solution. I then use a couple of jack stands to lift it at the pork chops, but they are not very stable. What I want is a wheel chock embedded in my garage floor so I can tie down the front wheel. It could be good for security too. ....pending wife's approval.

OK so if I get 36 instead of 35 MPG, over 10000 miles, that would be 278 gallons of gas instead of 286 gallons, or a savings of about $25 US dollars. So, if I replace the plugs at 10000 miles for a cost of $25 dollars, my plugs will be free! I have probably spent 15 or 20 dollars on standard plugs in the last 10,000 miles, just because I like the fresh crush washer at every valve adjustment. So, I have to weigh this: fresh crush washer vs. save money...and the environment.

On my V65 I extended the life by laminating some nylon cloth on with wetsuit cement. Wider hose clamps also helped. It was ugly, but doubled the life. Now I am more vain, so silicone greasing once a month may be a better idea. The V11 manifold connectors are much better made than the V65 ones. I think everyone with visual cracks should order a pair to reduce down time waiting for Guzzi to deliver when they are leaking air. In fact everyone should get a second parts bike. Now, to practice what I preach. PS I wonder if the BMW ones are any better?

Off with his head! Martin missed the extra "that" in the long verison But he should get a point for using that word, "disambiguate".

I have never done virgin lines, but I suppose it will be more challenging. Getting rid of the two into one T should help you, not hinder you. But the challenge is that the air is going to rise faster in the fluid than you can pump it down and out of the calibers. There are probably a few solutions: 1) Persistence. I am not sure that will work, but maybe after you pump your 27th bottle of fluid through, all the air will be gone. 2) Speed bleeders. I have never used these, but they MAY help you by allowing you to pump the fluid in faster than the air can rise. But some have trouble with them, and go back to wrenching the standard bleeder. 3) Elevate the calibers. This may be tricky to do. Also, pushing the caliber pistons in, and putting a spacer where the rotor glides, will displace some of the air so that you have less of a battle. 4) Get one of them kits that bleeds the bike backwards. I have never tried that either, but it sounds like the best solution. I am sure others have a lot more experience with these techniques. I have only used persistence and caliber elevation on the rear caliber.

Yah, it is a piece of cake if you have an extra relay. (That you can order here: http://www.dpguzzi.com/relay.htm ) If you just need to test the relay, you may be able to just pull one of the other relays and swap them. The starter relay is the only one that needs five pins. Some bikes are supplied with five pin relays in every socket, and some with four pin relays on all but the starter relay. If you have all five pin relays, you may interchange them. You may want to number the relays so you can track the problem relay. Since you are going the connector route first, you may wish to replace bullet connectors with these: http://www.webbikeworld.com/Reviewed-motor...ucts/posi-lock/ Although quality waterproof connectors, such as the ones from the company, Amp, would be preferable. If you don't want to replace the connectors, apparently the best way to restore them is not with dielectric silicone grease but with a conductive product such as this: http://www.walkeraudio.com/sst.htm It should be great for single bullet connections. I would be nervous using it where it might bleed over to adjacent connectors.

I think he'll lose her as soon as he slides on the one into two cobra.

Bob Good day, I'm Bob McKenzie and this is my brother Doug! Doug How's it goin', eh? Bob Today the topic is taxes. Go, eh! Doug Okay, like it's April right? So like Canadians are supposed to do their taxes this month, eh? Bob And Americans, too. Doug Wha? Bob They do theirs on the 15th. Doug Of April? Bob Yeah. Doug Geez. We get until the 30th. Bob Yeah, talk about cheezwiz, eh? Doug Why don't they have 15 more days like we do? Bob I dunno. Maybe something to do with the strength of their beer. Doug So Canadian beer is stronger so we're more drunk and need more time to finish our taxes? Bob Yeah, something like that. Doug Okay, that makes sense. So anyway, like this month we do our taxes. Well, we don't do our taxes, we don't make any money. Bob Not legally, at least. Doug Take off! You're not supposed to tell them about how we bootleg movies! Bob Wha? I didn't tell them we bootleg movies! YOU just did! Doug Oops. Bob Think the cops are reading this? Doug Naw, they're too busy at the donut shop. Bob Yeah. Doug Okay, all cops at donut shops, like take off! You go in there at like three in the morning just before we do and like you take all the good donuts right so all that's left are the weird ones like jelly filled. Bob Hey, those aren't weird! I like them! Doug Yeah well then that makes you weird, too. Bob Take off. Doug So anyway, all cops should buy like croissants or stuff we don't eat and leave the donuts for us right? And another thing, like you're supposed to be fighting crime right so like don't give us any more speeding tickets cause like we're in a hurry sometimes to get to the beer store and if it weren't illegal we'd have flashing lights and sirens on our van right so like take off. Bob Hey, I thought we were talking about taxes! Doug We are! Bob Then how did it become a discussion of cops? Doug Cause like we were talking about our movie bootlegs and hoping the cops wouldn't find out. Bob Hey, stop talking about the bootlegs! Doug Oh sorry, eh! Bob Well geez. Doug Okay, like if we did make any money... Bob Which we don't. Doug ...then we'd be doing our taxes this month. And like you need the forms and stuff from the post office, eh! Bob So like how come they send guys with shorts on to deliver the mail but can't deliver the forms to us? Doug Maybe they send it to people who've done their taxes before, I don't know. We don't do our taxes, cause we have no income. Bob No legal income. Doug Take off, you're not supposed to talk about that! Bob Sorry, eh! Doug Um. So like then you get the forms and have to figure out where all the numbers and stuff are supposed to go and if there's a beer credit or something and then you add and subtract and multiply and divide and stuff right and like it's real hard eh and then you find out you owe the government money so you change your name and move to like Lethbridge or someplace like that so the revenue cops won't find you, eh! Bob Revenue cops? Lethbridge?! Doug Yeah! Bob Beauty! Hey, you didn't change your name, did you? Like you're really my brother, right? Doug If I weren't really your brother, then I wouldn't admit to it, eh! Bob Oh, beauty! Hey, wait a minute... Doug So anyway, that's how we do our taxes. If we did our taxes. Bob But we have no income so we don't have to. Doug Well, no legal income. Bob Take off, you hoser!

If you hold the starter button and clutch in while moving the bars, I will agree with the others....with almost 100% certainty. If you move the bars and then activate the clutch and starter, then my money is still on the relay....with greater than 70% certainty. But then again, I lost at the horse track today...six freakin' dollars! I could have bought a pint of Coors with that money! (with no tip) So, I am not the best to give gambling advice. Of course swapping relays is a piece of cake compared to removing the tank and fixing intermittent connections.

Brian: I'm *not* the Messiah! Woman: Only the true Messiah denies his divinity. Brian: What? Well what sort of chance does that give me then? Alright, I am the Messiah! Crowd: The Messiah! The Messiah! Brian: Right. Now f*ck off! *silence for a moment* Man in crowd: How shall we f*ck off, oh Lord?

The USB version is much more advanced. Either will make your bike much better, but the USB maps at I believe twice as many increments, so you will have the RIGHT mixture more often...nothing is perfect all the time. Also the USB version offers throttle pump emulation(I don't think this improves the bike much, but who knows?) And the USB version offers individual cylinder mapping, so for a few dollars more on the dyno you can get even closer to perfection!

On our air cooled twins, the two plugs should be close to identical, categorically. I think your situation indicates that the right is running too hot. Probably because of air bypass screw or throttle body imbalance. Check it out before you burn your right exhaust valve or cause faster wear on the right side. I may be paranoid, and the difference is acceptible, but I doubt it and I would check it out soon.

Hi Steve, I agree about the lack of lube. But I have had trouble lifting the seal without damaging it. Do you use the screw driver on the inner circumference or the outer circumference of the seal? Damaging the inner is more critical, but the outer seems more difficult to get at. A parts guy at my local auto-parts place recommended a grease needle to slide under the seal, but I found that damaged the seal and when I injected, it was quick to ooze back out, which meant I had to move it around the bearing damaging the seal more. Also, when you mentioned both oil and grease. What do you use? I found that the bearings seem to come with what appears to be a thick oil But I have just used thick lithium bearing grease. I suppose it is all good, but it better to stick with one type of lube.