stewgnu

dig it. mine’s leaking though… ☹️

cheers for your write-up on the gearbox phil- got me thru it. It was only after i re-re-read it that i realised i should’ve draw-filed the bearing surfaces- i polished them but probably put a slight radius on them. Working bloody lovely though now 🙂. Makes me appreciate the v11 setup as when it’s good it’s very good. I got a vfr400 this year and the action thru the box is no comparison. Which i wouldn’t have expected as when i saw inside the v11 guts it looked so… agricultural?

cor blimey mate! i’m at top dead centre!

had a blast on a pals uly once, i kept hitting the end of the revs cos i was used to the v11. I love that the guzzis have that extra 2 thousand revs- really feel good in comparison

the po had cut 99.99 of the old lid away, leaving a sliver of plasique, which lost the strength to bolt down firmly. It has a jury-rigged ally frame i made atm- which is crap

my v11 is missing it’s airbox lid- i had to cobble a frame together to hold the filter down but would prefer to get hold of a lid really. She does roar on open throttle tho

I’ll bet there’s a couple V7 forums, or groups, on faceache

easy on a buell- peak torque is at 400rpm

I ordered from this American company http://www.speedbleeder.com

got speedbleeders on mine, they’re great

hydrogen then. for ace burnouts!

Interesting thought that docc- but man there’s already so much weight back there.. … Can you put helium in a tyre?

carelessnessness? moi?

Hmmm it’s all going suspiciously smoothly now… manky old gaskets out, and then i found 4 spare gaskets kicking about the garage- 2 copper ones and 2 composite badgers… ace!

yeah they are present, and look very ancient- if i remove them i may be cursed.

Well on my old v11 I did similar- I’d go in from either side with a solvent wipe wrapped around a wd40 nozzle, which kept them fine as i did it every year. This bike was superficially clean but everything ‘underneath’ has required attention. I’ve just checked the threads and they seem ok, maybe I got away with it somehow. I’ll pop a dab of locktite on them anyway- don’t want them buggers flyin off into the pot harr!

Ah. Another mistake on my part! At least i can add to my book: “Mistakes and Errors Made by Myself over the Years”. It’s a roaring tale set over 10 luxurious volumes.

70% Cleaning and 30% Curiosity. I had loads of parts removed to identify an oil leak from the top of the engine, started cleaning everything, checking the loom etc etc. It didn’t look like the po had ever cleaned the throttle bodies so they were pretty dirty. Taking the plates out allowed me to really clean them and the ports properly.

Ah right, well i’m setting valves, cleaning the butterflys + ports and balancing etc - i hadn’t thought to look at the injectors but i will do. Ta Those torx holding the butterfly plates in are very soft aren’t they

Alright fellas, in the midst of fettling for my mot, took the headers off and i noticed that the left exhaust port was bone white whilst the right hand port was pretty dark and has thick deposits. Is this something to work out or an indication of an issue? Ta Stew

Yep. The spacer is in the shed as it measured up at 112.3mm- so making a shim for it. Gonna have to smash out a new bearing 😠

Fitted new rear wheel bearings yesterday. I woke up with a little scream last night as I remembered I didn’t put the spacer in first.

Humm, dunno man, don’t do much posting overseas- but a cursory look suggests maybe twenty quid? Or what’s that: thirty dollars? i don’t know

Royal mail state ‘up to 6 weeks’. Which is frankly craptacular.

Any hints/tips/hacks/schneakarounds folks?