Bjorn

Doc, below is a link of a a guy (who is funny as fack, but that aside) in this video he shows a trick to remove bearings in blind holes. I know the swingarm bearing is pretty big and I needed a welder to remove it, I wonder is the trick works. It looks plausible.

Cool video !

Progress is slow but steady The gearbox has been rebuild by the Guzzi shop and is in working order again. During the search for the oil leak comming from the rear of the engine, the mechanice discoverd that the clutch was f*cked up. Somehow the rivets of one of the frictionplates had failed. I would not be suppised if this happed during the lock up of the gearbox. Anyway the clutch was fixed and the rear crank seal was leaking and was replaced as well. All in all enough euro's where spend on getting the bike back onto the road. My brother also modified the shifter mechanism according to the topic here on the V11 forum, and he is very happy how it turned out! He told me it makes a big difference. O and i also want to share these pics below. These are some pics from our old gearbox. What supprises us is the amount of corrosion! The bike is around 13 years old and we own the bike for about 4 years now. We have always stored it in a garage. However for 1 year this was a very very humid one. We dont know if the corrosion has always been there or occured during the last years. But this was not what we expected to find in a ''oily gearbox''. Even though its splash lubricated. anyway.... hope to stay out of the ''technical topics'' for a while

We will look into the oil leaking bit! I have inspected to hose before. Looks fine on the outside. We have aready replaced 3 springs in the gearbox hehe . But thanks for the heads up!

Worked out a deal with Scud (thanks for that!) and the gearbox has arrived savely. For the peace of mind we will have the bearing that failed on the old box replaced for the new one. We also noticed oil in the clutch bell housing. We suspect its the rear crank seal, this will need to be replaced as well. Since both require some special tools we will take it to the dealer. Not much to recognise as a V11 anymore

we just came back from surgery. This is what we found: getting the box of was easy peasy after the last encounter with the thing haha. we first opened the inspection plate since that was the easiest to do. In that compartment of the box we only found 3 pieces of the bearing cage. So we opened her up further. We found a sh*t load of metal and alu parts in there. Most of the roller balls had left the bearing a broke out a piece of the casting. We have no clue how this happened but I find it very ''telling'' that a almost identical failure mode had been observed by a fellow owner posting his findings some years ago. Here a pic from that topic which as been mentioned here as well (thanks for that!) As for now.... the main guzzi dealer in the Netherlands is closed but we think our best option is a new gearbox....