Zooter

Gutsibits' windage plate turned up toute sweet ( yes it's a copy of the Roper sloppage plate, but I sent Pete some beer coupons after I found out it wasn't his ), it appears to be laser cut stainless steel, a very slight scorch around the holes. Most of the holes have a weird micro fibrous stuff on them around part of the circumference. It could be paper fibres scraped onto it but looks more like spider silk, gums up in my finger, strange strange stuff. Any ideas?

Those will be NPT. It took some searching but the same thing is sold here as fuel line connector, figures it goes with grease too. $12 here though.

Thanks.I was reading an article from Amsoil claiming most synthetic isn't actually the real deal but processed dino.

I was buying plumbing supplies last week, at major player trade store, took a look at the selection of brass elbows, nothing in such small sizes, gas fittings maybe?

Cheaper still, GuzziDiag only asks for a donation, reflash the stock ECU with yours or someone else's map, reflash back to stock settings if you mess up. See the pinned thread.

Thanks, I was shopping for a "grease gun" without any specs the other day, dude wanted to know what fitting but "zerk" didn't mean anything to him. Are they generally standard threads between gun, hose/nozzle pipe and opening size, or mm here and inch fractions there? Euro bike should be all metric nipple?

Hells bells Jaap, NZ (New Zealand) is a sovereign nation 3 hours flight time east of Australia, or are you just winding up me and Dangerous?

Yah, but in my experience Dutch understand German much better than my schoolboy French

Too bad he had to prove to the safety committee the hard way and pay with his life.

I get a bunch of blogs at that link, which is the watercooled Guzzi?

File that under seemed like a good idea at the time.

Back here again, I would like to close the book on these failures. I do most of my milage on far away from home trips. The other solution that appeals is the 90°spring retrofit. The poster hasn't come back to us yet, but is a current member.

Badabump from the bowels of the forum. Has anyone else washered the pawl spring and done 30k miles since?

I don't know what bodgery puts the clutch slave aft of the gearbox, but it makes replacing the seal easy!

My 2002 seems to be well buried in the swingarm, unless I'm looking in the wrong place???

Beats me, from their linked article: Owners of 850/1000 engines have a choice: either stick in another chain with an updated chain tensioner or go with timing gears from Agostini. Owners of 1100's (and I suspect all fuel injected models) are stuck with installing another timing chain, as the gears will bind on castings inside the crankcase. I should mention that I don't know at which point the spring loaded Guzzi tensioner loses its effectiveness, so perhaps 1100 owners have nothing to worry about, but eventually the part will lose its effectiveness, either through wear on the rubbing block or through spring fatigue.

The plot thickens. I hope I'm understanding properly: Our multi grade stays slippery over a wide range of temperatures. So it feels like sewing machine oil at near freezing bones temp. And when it gets hot it stays slippery instead of disintegrating. Not sure what Penrite is claiming with "extra ten" technology base staying thicker at nominal operating temp. It seems like they want to call it 5w50 but SAE grading is 5w40.

I did not know zis until zis morning. I thought you might understand ze German better than my original post in zis thread, yah!

Suzuki 1100 clutch slaves used to burn up the seal over 40,000km. Pop in a new one and away laughing.

Zat vould be Z Zooter.

Cheap enough at 69€ plus forty-something for the screen plus some cheap light plus brackets plus paint. Having your bike pic reposted all over the internet, priceless.

#21 is now in NZ, long time since it came over from Japan.

They are calling a premium Mobil synthetic by "MOBIL 1000" here, I'm assuming it's the same but that's dangerous.

Where's the slave cylinder buried? Somewhere between that and the handlebar. My bet is on the slave cylinder seal since you can't see anything at the handlebar end. You'd think the clutch wouldn't be working too great with all that leaking going on.

SG was top of the pops in 1995, full of environmentally unfriendly Zn/P clogging cat filters. I wound up with the 5w40 motorcycle full synth version with "Extra 10" and 1800ppm zinc.