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"If you really want/need to standardize the font on a C&P post ..." On the merits, thanks. When a teen grandkid isn't handy, it's nice to draw on the skills of members here. Seriously, thanks. I'll try that next time ... if I remember. Bill

I have that set and it works perfectly…have used it a half dozen times, good workmanship on the tool, you will not wear it out.

Once you get an understanding of how it works you will be p.o'd AFA the removal procedure and how simple it is . Caterpillar had come up w/a new style of "push-lock" hose connection and I wasn't installing it (the new hose) correctly. After 3 attempts and probably 30 gallons of hydraulic fluid spraying the underneath of this "Bobcat" I figured out what I was doing wrong.

Saving up my guilders (er, Euros) now!

Nothing is better than a Dr's excuse !

I don't have anything that looks like these. I would get those. You can try it w/o them . Just remember to push the fittings together and then push the "loose" portion away from the coupling and pull away from the fitting.

If you really want/need to standardize the font on a C&P post, look at the bottom of the post/reply window after you paste your text, a black banner will appear with the option to keep the text as "Rich Text" or paste it as "Plain Text" instead. Click on the latter and Voilà, your post has now been standardized . . .

Hey @Tomchri, I think you forgot XYZ . . .

Let me look and see what my pliers look like.

This next part is pretty sketchy . . . (depending on the interwebs to translate US south'n vernacular into Dutch ) . . . Y'all come now. Ya hear? Kom allemaal. Hoor je het?

Yes, they are pretty crude stamped steel chinesium offering but the thing is that they are a simple tool for a simple task and they work fine, helps squeeze the retaining collar on the QD fuel line connector. Much easier than with fingers, especially if you have big hands and arthritic fingers like me. And they used to be priced accordingly, I got mine for less than $12 on Ebay a while back, now close to $30 Linky

IDK how much they are or if they come in a set. IIRC , the way the coupling works is to push the fuel line into the coupling , then push the inner portion into the outer and allow the line to come off. It may work the first time and it may take 20 attempts before it works. Jus remember to push the connector together before you do anything. There needs to be a video on how to disconnect this. The pliers look like they will work. After buying SnapOn primarily these look like a bargain !

You got that right ! I just finished a 2014 Altima that had a lot of codes. The alt. was putting out 15.54v at all times. Ran a multitude of tests . Found out it had about 4 alternators installed over the years. I tested the hell out of the battery and wiring system . Installed a QUALITY alternator and got a little over 14v at idle and then settled down. I think I read anything over 14.7v and you got troubles!

I wouldn't say "no" to one of them. But only because it was one of the prettiest bikes ever. From any manufacturer. The "parallel" Daytona would do at a pinch too.

Just magnificent!!! Did Moto Guzzi have a name for that stunning yellow besides just "giallo?"

Yes a little involved. Everything serviced. And yes l like my ladys cleaned. 98216km. D IPA time. Cheers Tom. Sent fra min SM-S906B via Tapatalk

Looks like a @gstallons question . . .

I went at taking off the tank of the Le Mans today, and had a bugger of a time releasing the fuel line couplings (Fuel pump in tank, if that is relevant...). On the German forum, I've seen a couple of links for a tool specifically for those sort of coupling. The only one I could find was this https://www.ebay.de/itm/312456395437?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=707-127634-2357-0&ssspo=1p-7cXsKRVe&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=BB8lR4S0S6q&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY allegedly, the green one is the one to use. The thing is, I don't like the look of those. I reckon they look like cheap crap. Does anyone know a source for this type of tool from a quality supplier?

World Spine Raid next year!

Don't want to put a damper on anything, but what does it go up to at high revs? If it gets much over 14.8 or so, you'll be back to cooking the battery, as far as I know.

I do believe that Texas (myself, P6x, PressureAngle) just had one of these precious Spine Raids following the illustrious long standing Tennesse one and the recent California (Scud & LaGrasta) one. So that leaves several other states and countries that can now follow suit! Post 'em up! Imagine if we had a National Spine Raid somewhere!

Sounds like a happy ending after all. Great news.

[First, an apology about the largish typeface font size. I write such posts in an email first, then cut & paste to forums. I have never quite figured out the protocol here to make my "email" posts appear the same as "standard posts." Yes, I see the "Size" options, and select "Default," but still fail. As a geezer who frequently almost always misplaces my reading glasses, I don't mind the larger print, but regret if that bothers you. ] Three Muttoneers — a smaller group than usual — rode for mutton at this fall’s church picnic at St. Mary of the Woods in Whitesville, Kentucky, last weekend. These are semiannual events, usually held on the Memorial Day Sunday in late May and the last Sunday in September. This time, Bob W., rode down from Rochester, N.Y., to the Moto Grappa on his Moto Guzzi V7 Classic. Then, he and I rode to Maysville, Ky., where Scott M. rode from LIma, Ohio, on his Piaggio P3 to join us for the rest of the trip to “Mutton Land,” Daviess County. While in Whitesville for the picnic, another Guzzisti, Rick C., of Celina, Tenn. -- @Goofman here -- did a day trip to join us before heading home again on the same day. The pix of this trip always seem to show that all we did was to eat, drink, and be merry. We certainly did that. 😊 Yet, we regret not having more “on the road” photos. Having once nearly committed accidental suicide by fiddling with a handlebar-mounted camera, I have since stopped taking such pix from the terror that followed the disaster I was lucky enough to escape that day. OK, if it must be disclosed, I also gave up on-the-move photos after trashing a Nikon DLSR when I did not stop soon enough to get it covered before the rain got to its $600 innards. 😱. [Yes, thank you, I know that one may “harvest: stills from Go-Pros and clones, but I’m not going there, either.] That said, I do miss the nice shots, e.g., this, taken in the Wisconsin Driftless area c.2012 … … but not enough to go back to doing it, so these will have to do for my photo memories and your travelogue … unless, of course, and quite understandably, you leave now! 😄 Here are two samples … Bob at launch - Across the Ohio River from Maysville, Ky. … the rest at the link, below. ============== As usual with my smugmug sets, the link opens in “landscape collage,” so you don’t have to go to the larger pix of the slideshow. Hovering your cursor over individual photos reveals the underlying captions. If you use the slideshow version, the pix are obviously bigger and all captions appear. But, inexplicably (to me), unless you manually move the slideshow along instead of letting it roll automatically, the captions might disappear unless you leave cursor in place in lower left corner. I’m a Luddite. 😉 ============== https://bill-and-kathi.smugmug.com/Mutton-Run-Fall-2025/n-CQqNwp Bill

No , Sam I didn't miss that. We were giving troubleshooting advice w/the understanding you had installed good known parts. This is not a pissing contest. We are happy you got your bike up and running .