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Many of you have told me how you and others have been near distraught at the delay in getting pix posted of the recently concluded Moto Grappa Tech & Tire Days, 2021 [abbreviated confusingly and saving only few letters as "MGTTD MMXXI."] OK, OK, maybe only person has, and he was being facetious. Still, I felt obligated to get those out there. Besides, Kathi, freshly returned from Seattle, thinks “working” on the slideshow was simply yet another ploy to avoid knocking items off her “List," so I had to finish quickly. A word for those who — rather understandably — see my slideshows as the pictorial equivalent of TLDR: don’t open the url. But, know that it could have been much worse; I started with 500+ photos, and now have “only” 155. The link opens in “landscape collage,” and captions appear when hovering your cursor over a pic. You can go to fullscreen and play the show or advance manually, but captions often “fall off” when doing that so it can be problematic. That said, if you have any interest in viewing the three brief (a few seconds long) videos, you have to go to fullscreen to see those. Enough “legals;” I can’t help it. Here are the pix: MGTTD-MMXXI Bill

Thanks Docc, the switch didn’t look bad, just a little worn at main contact. I need to finish mounting stock clipons and test ride it. Then on to the relay mounts if issue continues.

Thanks, Bill. You really should take care around that rowdy bunch, though. They might lead you down the path..

I'm cautiously optimistic. They've been in service long enough by now that if they were going to break, we'd have heard of at least one.. Unlike the OEM design, the spring calculator says they "shouldn't" break.

S652 is also in Germany. (Same site has a Scura R listed..)

So, push in the white catch tabs all around to separate the switch. The contacts and wiring will reveal themselves.

Also, Arizona heat or not, these oil cooler lines run from the frame mounted oil cooler to the engine's sump. A dramatic vibration transition. The lines tend to abut the front subframe and get abraded. Finding the contact points and insulating them is good method . . .

Thanks Scud and Chuck for getting these springs manufactured. Hopefully this cures the spring issue for good.

A 'whisperer' . . .

Yup. Wayne's the surgeon; we others, nurses. Bill P.S. Just realized that my wrenching skills make my reference to nurses unintentionally insulting. I am often mystified and occasionally mortified by how little I know when I listen to Wayne or, as shown in that and related pix, watch him work. Perhaps even more impressively, he is remarkably modest about his talent.

Not only do I love Wayne, but Wayne-with-a-Hammer!

If Guzzi suppliers don't have it.

Here are the part numbers for the sump adapters to use the AN line: "Reduction" (sump adapter the line attaches to) for your O-ring style line: 01 16 13 31 Earlier style "reduction"/adapter for the flared AN style fitting: 01 16 13 30 Some vendors use the "GU" prefix in their parts searches.

As mentioned, the key to the fuel sensor is it has enough resistance when covered in fuel (kept cool) to prevent the low fuel light from lighting. As long as there is enough resistance, it really doesn't matter how much there is. When it is exposed, uncovered, its resistance goes down and it can flow enough electricity to light the low fuel light. It is a really simple circuit. Besides testing the resistance of the sensor you can confirm that applying 12 volts to the rest of the circuit will light the low fuel light.

Welcome, get both bikes Cheers Tom.

I am 51 years old and reside in Redmond, WA - Been fortunate enough to live and work in many countries. I have been involved with motorcycle (and cars for that matter) since the age of reason! More than anything I consider myself a student of motorcycle design and its intricate inner workings (some would say a mechanic). I have built, raced and cared for many motorcycles over the years - some more fun than others and some more memorable than others. My first bike was an 1980 Suzuki A100 built into a 125cc road racer. This was my first rotary valve two stroke engine. My first full on restoration was when I was 16 and it was a 1959 Gilera B300 twin - this is one of the most memorable ones. I few years ago, I decided to parts ways with the corporate world and decided to open a motorcycle shop - after all, I had to do something with the almost 50 motorcycles I had accumulated through the years of frustrating corporate work. I don't have that many anymore, but I still have too many, which makes it extremely ironic that I signed up to the forum with the sole purpose of researching whether to get a 1100 Sport or a V11 Lemans. Here is a list of memorable bikes I have owned throughout the last 30 odd years: 1959 Gilera B300 Bicilindrica 1960 Gilera B300 Extra Bicilindrica 1999 Laverda 750 S Formula 1973 Moto Guzzi Eldorado 1968 Benelli 250 Racer (fully built by me) 2000 Ducati 750SS (half fairing) 1999 MuZ Skorpion 660 1962 Matchless G12 1978 Yamaha XS650 (first full custom hard tail I ever built) 1992 NSR250R SP Suzuki A100 Racer (don't know the year - already a race bike when I bought it) 1975 Suzuki T500 1988 Honda NT650 Hawk (I've owned 4 of them) 1987 Honda VFR750 There are many more, but I want to keep this short and only as an introduction. Anyway, happy to be here and I look forward to meeting some of you... Cheers!