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Chuck

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  1. A Sumo wrestler carrying a small turbine?
  2. Need I say plus 1?
  3. I'd have to order material..and.. get the water jet guy to do another short run. Probably a minimum of 10..
  4. Thanks. There was alot more to tell but I was short on time:-) Sent from my SM-N900V using Tapatalk Uh oh.. Mr. Hagan.. Mr. Hagan to the courtesy phone, please..
  5. Saw that on WG. At least the guy was wearing bibs.
  6. and the problem is? Well, ok.. I'll chime in. Most bicyclists.. oh never mind.
  7. I tried that once, and the Mighty Scura was the only Scura there. Rox and Scud were there on their Lemans though, so it was all good. What with the grand kids being "busy" we may not get out much, and the Scura is back in Indiana, now anyway.
  8. I *think* it's the same..
  9. My friend's name is Christopher. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk Thanks. If I've met him, I've forgotten. I'm old..
  10. Well, I know Rox and Richard. There was another Scura on a ride to Ojai about 3-4 years ago, but I don't remember his name. 3 Scuras is definitely a rally.
  11. John, the above covers exactly the way I feel. I have a good friend that has an early Thruxton, and after riding it was having a hard time saying something nice about it. Same deal with the Bavarian Money Wasters. Gimme a Guzzi. Chuck, deacon Church of Guzzi
  12. I think the difference is bicycles often spend more time BELOW the point where counter steering takes over from direct steering as the best way to steer where as motorcycles spend considerably more time above that point, But both motorcycles and bicycles have the same steering characteristics. At lower speeds they both direct steer well. As speed increases, counter steering becomes the only way to steer. FTFY
  13. So. Who's Scura?
  14. Actually, I never realized it was different from riding a bicycle etc. until I went to SoCal and rode with some *really* fast guys. I was the "painfully slow" guy until Todd Egan took me under his wing and said, "Look. Your are doing everything wrong." " Put your bike right here (about 10 feet ! behind him) follow me, stay at the same distance, and don't touch your brakes. You won't need them." We proceeded to spend the afternoon in the Santa Monica mountains going faster than I'd ever gone. It's not the same as riding a bicycle. That's all I'm going to say about that.
  15. I think you were the first correct answer..
  16. I won't bore you with all the details.. but the DSM (Distinguished Stupid Mechanic) put the o ring on the wrong side of the shims. What *was* he thinkin?? That adds .060" to the normal .030" gap, and the magnet loses it's ju ju as the missing tooth on the phonic wheel goes faster and faster. ECU says, "What did you say?" Better play it safe and shut down. It wasn't all for nought, though. I learned how to check everything at the ECU using KR's excellent pdf, and how to make sure the relays were working normally, courtesy of KR, too. Thank you, sir. Doing all that got it to the point where it *had* to be the timing sensor. I also have a much better understanding of how all this stuff works.. always a good thing.
  17. You can get an add on for Chrome and Firefox browsers called, "Photobucket fix" or some such. Download, install, and see those blocked images. Photobucket can kiss my patootie.
  18. I'll give it a look.
  19. Of course, the gap is important. I just cleaned, resealed, and reinstalled with the same shim, though.
  20. That was one of the things that was on the tank off list. It was weeping, so I pulled it, cleaned it, and put some hi temp silicone around the o ring and reinstalled it. I know they are fragile, and maybe a wire broke, but the test at the computer plug looks ok. 703 ohms instead of 680 sounds ok to me.
  21. I'm posting this stuff on WG, too. More ideas couldn't hurt.. Here's Kiwi Roy's excellent V11S test point layout and what I found.. 2018-03-25_04-07-12 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr
  22. It won't go above 2000. Acts perfectly normally untill 2000 and instantly dies. In my recollection, I've never heard of this one.
  23. Ok, it's *not* the TPS. What I was seeing was simply overtravel of the meter set on mv. Setting it on DC volts, it travels very smoothly from .150 to 4.75 volts. What else can cause the engine to suddenly stop running at 2000 rpm??
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