Zooter

Reading comprehension skills seem lacking. I read it plain as day the rattling bike in question is the 02 v11, being compared with a 08 relatively quiet valve rattle.

Charging metal up to where it gases off electrons on cue does involve a bit of a higher temp.

Red plating is when the big metal bits inside get red hot. I have only seen pictures. ( The heater filament glows orange in the bottom, normal ) After a while a red plating tube will fail and often pop resistors supplying the plates. The tube may be fine with a tuneup of the bias.

Weird, mine are all the same.

I believe they sold out of the NOS stash months ago. It was a mislabelled crate in a warehouse.

A Centauro looks twice as heavy as a V11

I was taught that hammering on the inner race was only for bearings headed to the rubbish bin.

Is it better to ride goat in private or sheep in public?

A V11 with the risers and handlebars might keep you riding longer. Those extra degrees of leaning in on your wrists with clipon bars are unkind enough on young backs.

If you want a bike to ride you don't want a museum piece anyway, let alone one that depreciates by half as soon as you put fuel in the tank.

What did they sell for off the dealership floor? Not that much. I don't go along with private mototrcycle museums. A waste of so many man hours not a celebration.

What does it look like you have been doing when you stride all gingerly bow legged?

Thanks man. Can anyone tell by looking if this is genius or a potential failure generator of its own? I am leaning towards genius but you never know what you don't know. Where the hole goes through is meaty enough it's not going to fracture the casting? Would it be necessary to mill a flat spot on the exterior? I don't know much about springs. Presumably the quality of springs varies as much as screws and bolts. What's a likely industry to source the good stuff?

Manky is Pom for bacterial colonisation making its presence smelt. The great thing about wool is it is naturally resistant to bacteria. Leather isn't too bad either. I think I may have to adopt a sheep myself.

Did you check air sensor resistance?

Whole lot of motorcycle for the moolah.

points at a duff relay?

I think I have a solid idea now. Front wheel chock catcher. A slot together shoe for the rear wheel that my two scissor jacks can lift fore and aft. Then prop under the frame with wide single unit. Just need to ensure I can get more lift than the static sag. Everything to ride on a ply sheet that I could turn into a lift table in the future.

An exact fit beats modding the other one. Should get a mod to edit the original. Got a source for the hex replacements of the TPS torx screws by any chance? Mine are already half munted.

from what I've been reading you wouldn't know your obd2 is any good unless it came from a known good batch. There are many counterfeits. You ideally make or else purchase TPS breakout cable and then there's the obd to ob2 converter to get off the ECU to your computer.

You can locate the TPS and its two Torx fasteners on the top of the right throttle body? With your breakout harness installed, and ALL of the right side linkage and right side idle stop screw, and fast idle linkage released, you can loosen and very carefully rotate the TPS watching the millivoltage. I use a tiny hammer or the T-handle of a hex drive wrench to bump the TPS. As you tighten it, the reading changes, so you'll have to fuss about with it until it settles at the 150mV. Reattach everything and set the idle using the left throttle stop screw (either looking at TPS voltage (.525mV +) or use guzzidiag in degrees opening (3.6º as I recall). This is just a portion of the total tune-up, does this help? kinda helps but how does idle magically come good without balancing left and right. Hasn't balance gone when backing off everything on the right

Spent a good chunk of yesterday sketching a cam and figuring torque needed before noticing the porkchops splay out interfering with the cam. Then I got to thinking it might not be too hard to simply manually hoist the bike across and up off the side stand onto a well attached axle stand under the cross frame on the right side. ( When leant over on the sidestand the right side is 29cm up already, enough elevation I think ) Once ''up'', kick a suitable block under left side, chock front wheel have a wee rest?

I think I have read everything twice by now.

This is the problem, without visuals I don't have enough mechanical nouse to flesh out the instructions. I was thinking the process of setting TPS involves playing with the throttle linkage and resetting the right throttle so making rebalancing throttles a necessary step.

Would syncing first not provide better data to guzzidiag?