Waterproof TPS?

[windchill]

If you really want to be anal about things, buy your Guzzi a bubble to live in!! Super dry almost air conditioned comfort!!!

 

Avoids a lot of the "sitting in a damp atmosphere" problems.

[BrianG]

If you really want to be anal about things, buy your Guzzi a bubble to live in!! Super dry almost air conditioned comfort!!!

38973[/snapback]

 

 

BAIT

[Guest ratchethack]

FYI - on Guzzi Exchange Aus. the other day, a poster, name of Nigel, posted the above-mentioned "feature" cost him £120 (GB) and a week without his bike. (See link below.)

 

http://morini.com.au/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?...=asc&highlight=

 

I haven't had any problem since I "pre-empted" the situation over a year ago per above.

[Guest Nogbad]

Another GUZZICHONDRIA thread!

 

Mine is ignored, doused in water when I wash the bike, doused in salt when I ride the bike and no problem so far.

 

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. (relatively speaking).

[Guest ratchethack]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. (relatively speaking).

Way to sweat y'er Guzzi assets, Nog!

[guzzijack]

Another GUZZICHONDRIA thread!

 

Mine is ignored, doused in water when I wash the bike, doused in salt when I ride the bike and no problem so far.

 

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. (relatively speaking).

84995[/snapback]

 

The duff TPS syndrome appears to be more of a problem on those bikes where it lives underneath the throttle body i.e. Cali EV series etc. The fuel runs down the throttle butterfly shaft and penetrates the TPS giving rise to the 'Galloping Camel' effect.

 

List of suppliers and alternatives in the Database section at

 

Yahoo Guzzi GB

 

Graham

(One crap TPS on the shelf already)

[Ryland3210]

Thanks for the responses, Guys.  As a quick follow-up, I just finished taking the TPS off.  As I had suspected, water had indeed been pooling in the cup-shaped cavity below the TPS in the top of the throttle body.  The cavity was full of 20 K mikes worth of powdery white corrosion that had evidently formed from repeat cycles of water getting in there and then cooking off with engine heat.  Since the TPS sits above this cavity, the TPS itself appears to be relatively immune to any potential damage from this, but I cleaned the white stuff out of there, put a drop of oil on the TB shaft, and put a fillet of silicone seal accross the open space to seal it anyway.

38764[/snapback]

 

Man, am I glad I take a random look at this forum from time to time. The silicone seal fillet sounds like cheap insurance to me. I just bought my Cafe Sport. It hasn't been in the rain or washed yet. I'll put some gray seal across that hole before I ride it again.

[Skeeve]