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Guzzi2Go

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  1. Well, odometer will work.
  2. oh man, i like that. that can be hooked up to the guzzi? all indicators working? or is it a total pain and half the shite don't work? Well, the gas indicator will not work. See HowTo section...
  3. I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.. I asked my wife where she wanted to go for our anniversary. 'Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!' she said. So I suggested the kitchen. Two times a week we go to a nice restaurant, have a little beverage, good food and companionship. She goes on Tuesdays; I go on Fridays. We also sleep in separate beds. Hers is in California , and mine is in Texas ... We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops. She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said 'There are too many gadgets, and no place to sit down!' So I bought her an electric chair. My wife told me the car wasn't running well because there was water in the carburetor.. I asked where the car was. She told me, 'In the lake.' She got a mud pack, and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off. She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, 'Am I too late for the garbage?' The driver said, 'No, jump in!' Remember: Marriage is the number one cause of divorce. I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always. I haven't spoken to my wife in 18 months. I don't like to interrupt her. The last fight was my fault though. My wife asked, 'What's on the TV?' I said, 'Dust!'
  4. What about kilometers? Or do we have to convert to miles?
  5. Same here. Stein-Dinse delivers them in 2-3 days. However, red ones seem to be out of stock at the moment.
  6. I think (not sure) that all V10/V11 bikes (from Centauro, California to Lemans) have the same dash, so there is quite an "applicability range". If the screw spins then the stud, or better, the plastic around it is already broken and you can pull the lid off together with all the screws. No need to drill, just give it a good yank and finish the corpo portaspie off. Yoda: "Broken it already is."
  7. Corpo portaspie is made of extremely brittle plastic and will break when you attempt to unscrew the three little screws holding the lid on it. Especially if the screws haven't been greased during installation (they haven't) and have corroded together with the nuts embedded in the lamp holder. May the force be with you (as it seems to be the only way to pry this apart).
  8. Hi all. The uj first failed at around 10k, I found the play starting to develop during a routine check over and managed to find an automotive distributor who located a matching u/j. The old joint was held in by the traditional circlips and fairly easily removed and replaced. The new joint however had no grease nipple. The same joint has failed again (rear) and has covered around the same mileage despite no grease nipple. This time I failed to pick it up before the rollers had failed completly and unfortunately the housing is damaged,so its a new shaft this time! It is repairable by my machine shop but they very busy at moment so I will repair it at a later date as a spare unit. I felt no unusual vibrations or other signs of failure. Corsa Italiana in London said they never have changed one, yet they kept the shaft assembly in stock so I guess they have sold them before.... I would add the bevel box has now developed a little play on the input shaft bearing, despite a rebuild around 6k ago..I am going ot keep a close eye on that. Andy I guess this is where the story about shaft alignment and importance of mid/shaft grease nipple comes in... Just wait till Pete spots it! ;-) Any thougts on relevance of the torque arm bush condition on the RWB life expectancy?
  9. Father had two sons, one pesimist, one optimist. He gets them Christmass presents, an electric model train for the pesimist and horse shit for the optimist. Pretending not to know what they got, he asks the pesimist: - What did you get? - Electric model train, but I will not be able to play with it if there is a blackout! - No worries, it runs on batteries. - But they will run out! - I'll get you new ones. - Tracks will bend and break eventually - ... Fed up, the father turns to the optimist. - What did you get? - A pony. He just went somewhere...
  10. Inside the instrument itself. I remember reading on one or two occasions (take "common fault" with great care) that tachs quit service for this reason. However, it seems logical to me that this actually happens quite frequently, as the coil wire is thin,not elastic and the dash is shaken violently, especially if the "third button" (top one) holding it unglued itself. Mine sure did fail that way. I wrote an article on this some time ago (HowTo section), which I also linked in the recent Veglia thread. Seems it went unnoticed. Here the direct link: How to open up your Veglia and close it back again... ...possibly fixing it along the way Note, don't read unless you are of the "...run where the brave dare not go..." kind! P.S. I see we have ITI instruments here. Can't say much about those, apart that the opening/closing method may be applicable for both types.
  11. Forget that. This is just to make the light bulb work (illumination). Has no effect whatsoever on the tach. Common fault on the white faced tachs seems to be break in one of the coil feed lines, which tend to break from vibration. This is fixable.
  12. Veglia or ITI? There is a recent thread in the howto section: http://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16407
  13. I tried the Le Mans one from Jaap's link and it turned out some 10% larger then the original. Jaap, what is the source of these? Are the files supposed to match the original?
  14. Or for more impatient characters: http://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12441
  15. Two aliens landed in the middle of nowhere, in the Arizona desert, near an old, forlorn, yet still functioning gas station, that was now closed for the night. They approached one of the ancient stand-alone gas pumps, still with the old glass SHELL head on it, and the younger alien addressed it... He said, "Greetings, Earthling. We come in peace. Take us to your leader." The gas pump, of course, didn't respond. The younger alien became angry at the lack of response. The older alien said, "I'd calm down if I were you." The younger alien ignored the warning and repeated his greeting. Again, there was no response. Annoyed by what he perceived to be the pump's haughty attitude, he drew his ray gun and said impatiently, "Greetings, Earthling. We came in peace but do not ignore us this way! Take us to your leader or I will fire!" The older alien again warned his comrade saying, "You probably don't want to do that! I really don't think you should make him mad." " Rubbish," replied the cocky, young alien. He aimed his weapon at the pump and opened fire. There was a huge explosion. A massive fireball roared towards them and blew the younger alien off his feet and deposited him as a charred, smoking mess about 200 yards away in a cactus patch. Half an hour passed. When he finally regained consciousness, he refocused his three eyes, straightened his bent antenna, and looked dazedly at the older, wiser alien who was standing over him shaking his big, green head. "What a ferocious creature!" exclaimed the young, fried alien. "He damn near killed me! How did you know he was so dangerous?" The older alien leaned over, placed a friendly feeler on his crispy fried friend and replied, "If there's one thing I've learned during my intergalactic travels, you never want to mess with a guy who can loop his @#$$#! over his shoulder and then stick it in his ear."
  16. Everybody has this problem. No exceptions.
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