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Comes with a free GB500?

Oh, man, a love-needin' silver V11 Sport and a GB500 eight feet from one another? Seems like *home* . . .

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mmmmm Let's say, Nice "autumn" colors! (> * fall * )

Avon seems to covered a lot of those applications with the RoadRider series . . .

Don't y'all make me pull out the glass mandrels and do any more porting and polishing!

Help us (signZ16), you're our only hope!

Is it just the header wrap on the CraigsList Sport that makes me think those are earlier Sport 1100 header pipes (eliminating the front crossover)?

Being drawn to chain link and suede seats speaks volumes . . .

Right? All the features of a "hold over" 2002: black crinkle, angle driven white face Veglia, chin pad tank with external pump and filter. Curious "performance exhaust" with the header pipes and crossover changed, but the heavy stock LaFranconi canisters. A crash recovery?

I have had to use Channel-Locks (slip joint pliers) and a leather barrier to get it fully shut off. Once that was done a few times, the shut off became more reliable. In normal day-to-day operation, I leave it open.

I mean, that's what they look like, but there is no internal ball valve like a brake bleeder.

I suppose, technically, I use a "Y" to join the two hoses about 4-5"/ 100-125mm from the nipples. This proximity actually makes it a bit easier to get them plugged back in when putting the tank back on.

Mine are T'd and the exit Zip-tied to the large braided line to the back of the sump.

So the right side of the crown is normally carried on #12 And without #12, that side of the crown is carried on the seal #10? Maybe mine would be less likely to leak without the carrier bearing (or more likely?) (I realize the rest of the crown has bearings 26 and 36).

Re#2/#4) yeah, loosing the PC will simply things. Then perform a "Decent Tune-up". That will get your valves set to a relaxed 0.006"/0.008" and provide a solid base-line state of tune. Re:#5) Bouncing tach could be a Relay issue (common). Consider installing a full set of OMRON High Current relays. Also, make sure the battery is at (or near) a full state of charge (12.84vDC) and the terminals are clean, tight, and sealed.

That most outboard #30 are not big rollers. More like "needles", certainly not what I would call "roller bearings."

Yes, needle, exposed to the gear oil, so always lubed, same as #26 Like "roller" bearings? Not like the nefarious little *needles* in the flinky outer cage on the right by the swingarm?

Yeah, brubache has had a V11 for less than a month and has done more than I did in the first ten years!

Ok, fascinating. #12 is really "needle" or actually balls? (" . . . the inner support needle bearing #12.")

I had a a similar thought in the presence of the MGS-01 at Barber a few years back: "Hey, hey! That's my gearbox!"

My understanding is that shiloh found #12 missing. #30 is the "rusty needle cage" that luhbo refers to. It is on the outside of the housing next to the swingarm on the right. It does not spin, but rotates slightly with suspension moment and helps locate the housing on the axle. Perhaps the nefarious Bearing #12 is what performs this function primarily and the needle cage less so? In that event, if Bearing #12 has been missing, I would perform a close inspection of the "needle cage" #30. It may have been doing all of that work solo. It looks "fine" in the posted photo, but there is a "sleeve" #31 to inspect as well.

Yes sir, I've been studying that exploded view, and what photos I can find. Curiously, the Workshop Manual does not provide any detail on the deeper bearing or the seal behind it. It appears bearing #26 is pressed into the crown and bearing #36 is pressed into the housing cover. When assembled, those two bearings carry the crown between the housing cover and the axle as I described above?

So, I'm having trouble understanding what the three transverse bearings are doing. The right side (deeper one/ the one found missing in this case) is pressed into the rear drive housing and its inner sits on the axle? (Neither of those things actually spin . . . ) And the other bearings (on the wheel side)? They are pressed onto/into the crown wheel (ring gear)? The larger (outer) allows the crown to spin in the housing cover and the smaller (inner) allows the gear to spin on the axle?

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