pete roper

Not exactly a newer model but hey So it's a smallblock 750. 2 or 4 valve per cylinder. I can't remember. As for parts there is some communality with other models but stuff like bodywork and some engine bits will probably be difficult. Try TLM in Holland, Stein Dinse in Germany or Ago's in Mandello.

You could try reaching out to Mark at Griso.org I believe he's produced a pretty good Calvin map. I take it you've ensured the tune is correct? Balanced the TB's? Set the TPS correctly?

Phil, I have virtually every puller known to man, and probably a few not available to aliens! On that Sport C the ONLY thing that eventually moved it was heat, lots and lots of heat! Yes it did for the paint but believe me, if I could of found an alternative I would of been all over it like a rash!

If you want to know what VDST is like I suggest you get a bottle of tomato passata, take it somewhere with a white marble floor and then throw the bottle of passata hard at the floor, watch it smash and look at the delightful pointillist pattern on the marble. Now, stop for a moment and imagine that rather than using a bottle of passata for this experiment you had got an older food processor, one of the ones that doesn't turn off when you take the lid off. Now imagine squatting down naked and lowering your wedding tackle into the bowl of the blender with the blades whistling round like glittering swords of death!. Now imagine taking the results and tossing them onto the marble floor and doing a comparison between the amount of pain, pleasure and useful information you got from the two experiments. Which one equates to the misery experienced by people who bought into the VDST hoax? You guess.........

The first one I did needed a bloody gas-axe! It was on an 1100 Sport C that appeared to have been assembled in a very damp salt mine....

You were lucky😂

Jesus wept. Not here as well. F*ck this shit. It's bollocks. And thinking it would be anything other than a wheezy, hopeless decedent of a Breva750 if it ever made it off the screen of the fantasist who dreamt it up is a joke. Loosing 30Kg would just make it a slightly lighter antediluvian sack of shit. The V85, somewhat miraculously, makes about 60 RWHP. Dressing that up in designer clothes just makes it the two wheeled equivalent of Donatella Versace and that is not where I want Guzzi to aim for as a *Future*. Sadly, I think I'm out voted seeing as how well the V85 is selling..........

Idle speed change will be down to fuel delivery. Leaner mixture=higher idle. If it's an open loop map you could try adding a few points of CO.

Yes, they're the ones. They'll work with any squarefin. No, Valpolini may not make them but they were the first supplier to carry them AFAIK and quite likely suggested that whoever makes them make them. I know them ad Valpolini gaskets because that's where they were originally purchased from by the Oz importer.

MG cycle carry them, not under the Valpolini name though I think

Use valpolini gaskets, they won't squeeze out and last pretty much forever.

Griso engine is substantially different. It runs smaller TB's, sump, lubrication set-up, crank/alternator set up all different.

Is there any other way that you could photoshop, so badly, such a cornucopia of ugliness? It really is praiseworthy for that, and only that......

God's teeth! If that thing was a baby it's mother would of strangled it at birth!

There was, and still is, a lot of horse shit spoken about the 16 inched front wheel LMIV. I was working at a shop in south London when they were a 'Current' bike and well remember the whinging and whining about how badly they handled. Thing is I could never get one to misbehave. As time went on it became obvious that those that whined most had almost invariably changed the tyre profiles from those recommended by the factory, that makes a huge difference. As does not being super observant with tyre pressures. Even a pound or two off would transform a swift and for a Guzzi agile performer into a wallowing slug. If I wanted a MkIV I'd actually want it to have a 16 incher on it. I wouldn't want one though because of the horrid 'Big Valve' engine, the even ropeyer than usual gearbox and the propensity for them to loose crownwheel bolts. The 'Tall Head' frame makes them look like an adenoidal teenager as well, ugly as, bleargh. I always find it amazing they canned the MkIII, probably the best looking and certainly the sweetest riding Squarefin Tonti for the MkIV which vibrated more, carbureted worse, didn't go appreciably faster or handle substantially better but looked as ugly as a sack full of farty arseholes!

Sadly yes. It now seems that Moto Guzzi are going to be condemned to making two wheeled Toyota Camry's for eternity. I suppose they'll be able to sell lots of accessories though like jars of beard pomade and ugly t-shirts with crossed spanners on them and similar junk.

Yeah, sorry, I've been out of the V11 loop for a week or so but I think I covered this pretty well in the Ghetto where the question was asked as well. The very early CARC bevelboxes had a shitty bearing that died bit they did it by breaking up the cage and poking it through the seal! It doesn't sound to me like it's a problem in this case.

The oil inside the swingarm may well be from the bevelbox. The bevelbox isn't sealed at the pinion on Tonti's and when ridden hard oil may well end up flung forward and sneaks into the UJ chamber. It's harder for it o the 'Big UJ' models but it still happens. Don't ask me how or why. It just does. If there is a lot of oil in there it may well be the output shaft seal and sadly that may be because the output shaft bearing has bust up its cage. How many Kms on this thing? A lot of them are a bit weepy but it's not worth tearing in to unless the bearing is stuffed. If the seal looks intact and you don't get a clicking noise when tou turn the back wheel with the engine off on the centrestand I'd monitor the gearbox oil level for a bit. As long as it isn't dropping like a stone I'd not worry about it too much. I'm surprised your driveshaft UJ has a bad trunnion? The later shafts are generally very long lived.

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You'd better tell me where to send it then John! really there isn't much to compare between the 'Old' and 'New' Hi-Cams apart from the layout. The 'New' Motor has two oil pumps, one of which delivers to a dedicated, and unthermostatted, cooling circuit that's only purpose is to deliver cooling oil to the galleries around the exhaust valve seats. Lubrication, and the other cooling sprays, are fed from the other pump. This includes the cam bearings which are fed by galleries surrounding two of the studs, not, as many think, by the oil lines from the cooler. More later, I just got an SOS call........

John, I have this Stelvio cooler. It's worth nothing over here. Nobody will pay shipping. Take it or it goes to the tip. I don't know enough about early hi-cams to say but I tend nowadays to think that unless they are 'Racing' all big blocks are generally over cooled.

John? If it would be any use I've got a really good low mileage early Stelvio oil cooler gathering dust in the shed if you want a bigger one. Yours for nix if you think it might help.

Errr? Yes it does need a puller to get the outer race out. For anyone with access to same the blind, expanding puller used for extracting the needle roller races from five speed gearboxes works for this bearing as well.

No, not even close. If you would like me to walk you through potential issues with any CARC bike here is not probably the place as it's dedicated to earlier models. email me. motomoda.roper@gmail.com B11's are a great 'All Purpose' tool. Early ones had a few issues that need addressing. In the UK they rarely were.

Methinks it's probably the ring gear assembly from one of the single platers used on the Scura/Rosso Mandello etc. it's too big for a smallblock and it's not an 8V as they have a separate ring gear.