Joe caruso timing gear install

[Bruce Reader]

Group buy ???

 

Cheers

 

Bruce

[guzzler]

Just my tuppence worth.

I also had that bloody annoying stumble!

Mine was between 3 and 4 k and yep on a whiff o throttle.

It used to piss me off rolling through a town at 60k's in  third ( 3 thou ).

The thing that cured it was when I had the useless standard tensioner replaced with the Stucchi unit.

I was with the mechanic when it was done and can verify that it's CRAP!!

That was about 30 thousand k's or probably more ago and no stumbles.

We found the issue because my timing gasket failed and noticed how little tension the original had on the chain!

Cheers Guzzler

[al_roethlisberger]

Holy cow, if THIS the main cause of the 3-4000 RPM stumble that many have chased for 15 years, that would be amazing.... seriously 

 

Honestly, that stumble is the only real thing that drove me crazy about these bikes, the rest was just "character".  And it did drive me crazy.

 

So it sounds like one can spend about $600 on gears or about $30 for an improved tensioner:

 

http://www.mgcycle.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=347 (Is this the Stucchi one?)

 

https://www.stein-dinse.biz/product_info.php?products_id=770

 

https://lgccompany.it/en/home-page/9254-tendicatena.html

 

 

The tensioner is certainly more economical, but the gears would be very cool 

[Bruce Reader]

Yes the gears would be cool.

 

Group buy ?

[Bruce Reader]

A group buy for  a kiwi roy re designed  wiring loom ?

 

I'm going to ride this bike for another  20 years.

 

Cheers

 

Bruce

[Tinus89]

Holy cow, if THIS the main cause of the 3-4000 RPM stumble that many have chased for 15 years, that would be amazing.... seriously 

 

Honestly, that stumble is the only real thing that drove me crazy about these bikes, the rest was just "character".  And it did drive me crazy.

 

So it sounds like one can spend about $600 on gears or about $30 for an improved tensioner:

 

http://www.mgcycle.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=347 (Is this the Stucchi one?)

 

https://www.stein-dinse.biz/product_info.php?products_id=770

 

https://lgccompany.it/en/home-page/9254-tendicatena.html

 

 

The tensioner is certainly more economical, but the gears would be very cool 

 

My bike features that exact tensioner (I put it in myself) but also features the 3k stumble. Sorry.

[footgoose]

A group buy for  a kiwi roy re designed  wiring loom ?

 

I'm going to ride this bike for another  20 years.

 

Cheers

 

Bruce

 

[Lucky Phil]

Just some feedback on the timing gears. Rode into the city yesterday for lunch with my wife which entailed about 60klms of freeway riding at 100 klm/h in 26 degC heat at around 2900-30000 rpm indicated. It still coughs and stumbles at around 3000 rpm occasionally. So the gears aren't the answer to that it seems. looks like mapping.

 

Ciao

[sp838]

Does the engine need to be removed in order to install these gears, or can they be put in with it still in the frame?

[Lucky Phil]

15 hours ago, sp838 said:

Does the engine need to be removed in order to install these gears, or can they be put in with it still in the frame?

If you look on page 1 you'll see the engine still in the bike.

Ciao

[luhbo]

On ‎4‎/‎6‎/‎2019 at 7:44 AM, Lucky Phil said:

Just some feedback on the timing gears. Rode into the city yesterday for lunch with my wife which entailed about 60klms of freeway riding at 100 klm/h in 26 degC heat at around 2900-30000 rpm indicated. It still coughs and stumbles at around 3000 rpm occasionally. So the gears aren't the answer to that it seems. looks like mapping.

 

Ciao

Now that. Posted since nearly a month now and no one jumped in  ?

[fotoguzzi]

I thought the cure for the cough was to bin the stock crossover and put on a Mistral.. that's what I did and thought it was fixed.. sadly I no longer own it.

[czakky]

14 hours ago, luhbo said:

Now that. Posted since nearly a month now and no one jumped in  ?

I thought we decided that gears were better for motorcycles and chains were only for Phil’s bedroom activities....?

[sp838]

Just ordered a set... Phil, you are an enabler!

 

 

[Lucky Phil]

4 hours ago, sp838 said:

Just ordered a set... Phil, you are an enabler!

 

 

Welcome to elegance

Ciao