Lucky Phil

Nothing Pete. Scud sent me a few spares for this side of the pond to those in need. Ciao

The spherical bearing is worn. There should be no linier movement in the bearing. Spherical movement yes, linier movement no. Ciao

Personally I can't see how this has any relevance at all. Thermo-syphoning effect in a pump circulated system is largely irrelevant. A pressurised pump driven automotive cooling system is arranged the way it is because of gravity. Any system with a pump in it is going to feed from the bottom of the reservoir (which the heat exchanger is in many systems) even if it runs at room temperature. Nothing to do with thermo-syphoning. It's true that if you were running a pure thermo-syphon system then you would organise it this way but the Guzzi oiling system isn't that sort of system. My car has the usual automotive cooling system but additionally uses Thermo-syphon to get heat out of the turbocharger housing when you shut the engine down. In addition the Guzzi has a thermostat that bypasses the oil cooler unless the temp is at a pre determined level. You can arrange the oil feed and return for the cooler any way you want the only thing that might be desirable is the have the cooler mounted horizontally with the feed and return to the top purely so the oil in the cooler doesn't have the tendency to drain back to the sump on shut down. All it would mean is a slight delay in building oil pressure on a hot start at worst. Nice to do but not essential. Ciao

Yep, same here. It's Bronze welding to me as well. I'd need to do more than simply upping my game I'm afraid, more like learning how to play it at all in comparison. I was also looking at TIG Bronze welding which uses different rod composition without flux. Looks easier with a bit more latitude. Ciao

In line flux would be a flux incorporated into the rod. If you look closely you can see the joints have very small steel tac welds to hold them in alignment as well as the jig of course. You can hear some creep as he pre heats the tubes. Ciao

Well worth 8 odd minutes of your life for mine. Ciao

Or you could do it the right way and fit it back in with some green "super bearing mount" loctite and it'll never come out again. Ciao

Nothing Ciao

Ok Pete I'll get it off to you tomorrow. Ciao

Maybe, but it doesn't fall to bits. If you have a roper plate then fill the engine until the oil level is at the bottom of the plate( look through the fill hole with a torch, easy to see) then dip the std stick in until it stops, dont screw it in. Then remove it and see where the oil level is on the stick and drill a 1.5mm hole in the stick at the indicated level. Easy to do and easy to now see the full level. Ciao

I have some Pete, how many do you want? Ciao

Ok if it's air then it's probably a waste of time spending big bucks on putting new std decals on the tank again as they'll probably do the same again eventually. Ciao

What came out chuck, air or water? Ciao

Pierce the bubbles with a needle and see if any water comes out. If it does then its a fuel/water in the fuel issue. If it's just air under the decal then its a decal adhesion issue. Ciao

The decals lift because the tank is affected by ethanol fuel so you need to factor in drying out the tank and getting it lined. Or a replacement tank. Ciao

Yep Ciao

Yep, Paul Daytona. (Paul Minnaert) He sells them, or used to. Ciao

Personally I like this better. http://www.fastguzzi.nl/v11/scuracarbontail2.jpg Ciao

Ok just did more research and you are correct. I have a 15M and just assumed the disabling could be done with diag on the RC seeing it looks at everything else with regards to lambda. Ciao.

You usually turn off the Lambda using Guzzidiag. Didn't know you could do it via Tunerpro. Ciao

A triangular style with a centre relief cut out will be strong enough in 5mm plate ally. Ciao

Do you warm the battery before you try to start your bike in cold conditions? With a LiPo battery when the ambient temps drop you must turn the headlight on for 30 seconds or so before attempting to start to warm the battery. Ciao

Its easy to fabricate muffler hangers with simple hand tools from 5mm aluminium plate. Better than ruining a good set of standard hangers by chopping off the peg mounts. Ciao

Contact cleaner doesn't work (I know, now there'll be 20 people saying it worked for them)The switch is a sealed unit from both sides, internally for oil and externally for weather. Mine failed and the contact was just tarnished after getting old. Cleaned it up with Scotchbright and it worked again but I couldn't get it to stay together so just used my spare. Ciao

Why in gods name would you want to do that. You've just figured out Guzzidiag and want to go backwards to rubbish like a PC3! Ciao