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No more noise? OUTRAGEOUS! Before we know it – it'll be all electric. Who do I complain to?

What do you think that means? Just natural evolution – or did the tappets need a redesign because the current system isn't working or lasting well enough?

Interesting. I wonder if, like the pawl spring problem, there have been cases of the timing cover gasket failing again, after replacement? On mine, bits of the gasket became dislodged. How? I don't know. Maybe it was torn from the beginning, when assembled at the factory? Maybe it was due to the thick black paint of that period that often got overpainted onto joint surfaces, or the timing chain fling has an effect, or the stress of the engine hanger has a tearing effect, or...? Anyway, the gasket was damaged and that's where the oil came through the joint, eventually becoming a flow rather than a mist. The damaged gasket piece started working its way out. In this location, external application of sealant fixed it. Such a remedy will not work in a location where there is more stress and movement. When the timing chest cracked, sealant sort-of worked as a temporary repair to get me home from Scotland, but all subsequent attempts to make a permanent repair with epoxy failed, because the crack happens at the weak point of the plate where it is bolted to the block and stressed by the engine hanger mount. It's impossible to close a crack and stop hot oil getting through a hairline when there is multiple stress at the fault (unless it's welded). However at a straightforward screwed-up joint section, there isn't a big problem.

Any time this type of question arises, the first thought is that it's the timing cover gasket leak. The description in the text didn't quite seem like, but the pictures posted certainly do look like that's what it is. While a new gasket is the correct type of repair, I'd still recommend the simple application of sealant as an alternative and effective repair. It was mentioned back in this thread and various others since: http://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2024&st=0 In this picture, the blue shows where the sealant is applied, after careful cleaning. I then covered it with black silicone and after some road miles, it becomes fairly invisible.

Can you put both feet on the ground?

You're confusing me with someone else, Guzzirider perhaps? He's probably jiggling to the latest offering from 'Can Of Worms' right now.

Thanks all. It's a boy: Joshua.

The V.11 Forum becomes even more uncool as Belfast based contributor becomes a granda,

So yours broke at the coil, not at the end hook. Did you measure the diameter of the boss that the coil fits around on the pawl arm? 15mm or 16mm What diameter is the old spring coil? What diameter is the new spring coil?

Sounds like a good deal: all good mods on there. I have the Arrow cans and would like to fit the uprated shock and a gel seat. With your fork springs too, you're getting close to the Factory version spec. The Dorso will run the legs off a V11 in a lot of situations *disclaimer: 'though not all' Depending on conditions, on some runs it's as fast or faster than the Griso, because it's more agile. Of course it doesn't have the grunt or the top end. Doesn't have the Griso's stability either. Two sides of a coin. Thing is, it's different enough from the Griso (or V11) to make up a good pair. So, keep the Dorso and later get a G as well. The best people do.

Doesn't impress much. There are worse problems on this Board.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcLDuVkwrNY&feature=related

Very interesting (no.1) So the original cam jumping around, or sliding end-to-end, causes the racket. Why would that relate to the tappet failures? Aesthetically, I don't mind clattering camshafts so much: for me the worse noise is the huge whine from the top end (cam chain?). What have Guzzi (or Aprilia) done to quieten the whine? Very interesting (no.1a) Recently MCN (UK) said that there have been 2 revisions & power modifications to the motor and I thought they were implying 2 mods to the cam: the older mid-range mod that has been talked about and a new current mod/profile mod. ?? Very interesting (no.2) A post elsewhere on this Forum insinuated you had been disappeared, into Enzo's sump. Have you got an internet connection in there; did you escape; or was it just a rumour? Very interesting (no.2a) Dan, Dan, Aussie guitar man contacted me! Quelle surprise! I thought that he had been swallowed by the Illuminati sump! Very interesting (no.3) Your "011 bikes"? I may have forgotten, or never knew... did you get another new Griso? In Australia? Something else as well, or its maybe customers' bikes? Question (no3a) What mod have they done to the Plug Tube? You may recall that I have big rust from leaky tube, which makes it even more difficult to extract the plug boot from the tube. Very interesting (no.4) John Westlake, Senior Editor at MCN has had his V7 Classic taken away (Guzzi needed it for something else) – and replaced with a Griso *SE as his long-term test bike. Very interesting. He professes to be be afeared of it, 'a vast snarling behemoth'. * SE = Donkey Kong, evidently.

Here is a thread (with nice photos) explaining how to remove the tank form a 1200 Sport. Thought it would be useful somewhere over here. Good stuff, OO I'll add it to the Table of Contents and put the post in the Newer Models sub-forum. This Contents list has been sadly neglected. It was started at the beginning of adding some posts on the CARC models to the V11 Forum: realistically there are now too many to keep updating the Contents list.

the question mark business again? the question mark business, again? The question mark business? Again!

Enzo looks well with a beard.

So, you tried the sheepskin pads too? Yeh, bad mistake: too much rain in Scotland.

You should be able to get it into neutral – at least once the box is opened you can slide everything into the right position. The second post here gives some guidance on doing it and there may be more description in the other topic posts. If you can't find the neutral position, give a shout here again.

Galax, for your own good you need to go back a few years in the Tech Topics forum and study the discussions on the double vortex bi-wired fuel line adaptions to the Infamously sneaky V11 fuel tank. Without doubt you will be able to trace your fueling problems to this design issue. Mostly, fuel gathers in the unusable rear side corner of the fuel tank where it becomes, by definition, unusable. This inevitably leads to problems. Fortunately the Forum can propose one or two super-scientific solutions. However I'm not aware of any trials outside the State of California (where the theories originated) therefore, due to the reverse vortex situation occasioned by the under-equator upside-down hemisphere region, you may need to reverse your tank. once you carry out that modification, your V11 can be deemed, to all intents and purposes, to be a Donkey Kong. Please report back on the speed increases that will inevitably result. Erm, just a thought... as you're experiencing problems... did you at any point install a Roper body in your sump?

I blame Enzo for any deviation. It was Enzo who introduced animals to the Forum. Besides, I think that the topic reads better if you substitute the word 'penguin' for 'filter' or 'air intake'. it kinda helps make sense of what has now become known as 'the Australian (penguin) Incident' too - and the strange disappearance of Pete Roper. This is a little dull and non-sensical:

The Holland pinkyin is seriously off-topic.

It wasn't easy, I can tell you, but I got there I'm the end: every word accounted for. What's more, it's all true!

Gracious! Heaven forfend. Could such a thing even be possible? Let me consult the abacus frame, or, 'calculating table'.