Chuck

Here's my experience with lubes on the splines. To make a long story short, I tore a strada down shortly after putting it back together chasing a mystery vibration. Now, every Guzzi I've had apart has had rusty splines, so on the advice of Wayne Orwig, I made up a slurry of chain lube and moly and applied it to the splines with an acid brush. Obviously, you don't want to put so much on there that it gets flung onto the clutch plates. After putting it back together, the mystery vibration was still there, so Itore it down again for a complete balance of the rotating assembly. Less than 1000 miles, and there was no sign whatsoever of the lube I'd put on. Need I say that I don't bother anymore? Now, about that clutch plate thing. Because of the uneven firing order (270/450) she soundsa good.. but when the springs are compressed the clutch plates and intermediate plate are free to rattle back and forth on the flywheel and transmission input splines. This will eventually wear grooves in both sets of splines. The first sign the rider sees is a clutch that suddenly engages.Once that happens, there's no option but to replace stuff. Those splines will last forever unless you hold the clutch lever in for extended periods. Oh, the mystery vibration? Sometime in it's life, it had been down on the right side and bent the crash bar enough to cause a sympathetic "singing" for want of a better description. D'oh!

Back when I was a young whippersnapper of 60 or so, I found that Glucosomine with MSM (MSM is used on race horse's knees).. Costco sells it.. helped my knees. I do it every day, and have for freakin ever. Works for me.

I'd say it could.. I've seen worse, but. I suppose I should say that everyone here knows to *never* sit at a stop light, etc with the lever pulled to the bars, right? I was riding with some SoCal guys that were maybe beemer converts that never dropped into neutral when coming to a stop. I tried to explain the clutch/intermediate splines rattling back and forth because of the uneven firing order and said don't do that. It met with glassy looks.

The Mighty Scura is livin easy, too..

Talked to the Kid last night, and we are a definite maybe.

If you squeeze the bottom coil a little with channel locks, it'll hold on to the stub in the recess of the spring well.

Apples and oranges, maybe.. but on the Aero engine, they mounted the sensor on the end of the pod.

Well, there's for damn sure no turbo on the exhaust.

Where's the turbo?

^^^^^ GuzziMoto pretty well covers my feelings, too. I liked the Mighty Scura so much when I had it in SoCal that I thought I'd get a Rosso or Nero for the midwest. After a long search, I found Rosie, and found that I actually preferred the minimalist fairing on the Scura. The Lemans fairing does a good job.. especially in rain compared to the Scura, but day in and day out I prefer the flyscreen. That's why they make all kinds, of course.

So sorry. Ican relate..

Yeah, That's Rosie. I rescued her from Alabama in fairly rough shape. She's a sweetheart.Strangely enough, Irode the Mighty Scura down to the Duck dealer in Indy this fall looking for an Ohlins part, and there was a Rosso sitting in the parking lot. It *wasn't* Rosie. (!) Someone in Indy had dropped it off for an oil change.. so there's another one around that we don't know about.

I'm pretty sure it would take a good woman to keep you in line, Pete.. :)

You have learned well, grasshopper..

Must be oldtimers.. I was thinking the Coppa was 05. Guess I was wrong.

Guzzis depreciate rapidly, stay stable for a long period, then slowly increase in value if it's a "collectable" Guzzi. IMHO, any LeMans is. I'd say at really low mileage and not cut up, 3500-5500, depending on actual condition and accessories.

Just sayin.. but the tender just might kill it. I'd charge it and leave it. When voltage drops to less than 12.5, charge it again. I've seen these batteries go 10-12 years without being on the tender. Odyssey rox. Edit: Oh, forgot. Odysseys and battery tender juniors are a bad combination.

Too old and fragile.. but I loved it when I was a kid. There's nothing like a dirt bike.

Yeah.

Yep, that is the Kid's Spot.. and my granddawg Belle. His transmission was toast, and he brought it down so I could walk him through it because he'd never been in one before. I told him he'd figure it out. Once we pulled the rear cover he said, "Oh, I see. Nothing to this, is there?" We put in new gears, bearings, seals, and shimmed it. Yeah, degreasing is a must and not terribly glamorous. I *hate* getting dirty. An old airplane mechanic took me under his wing and showed me the ropes when I was a pup. I've always tried to pass it on to kids, and was the main trainer for apprentices back when I was in model shop. Joe is remarkable.. I'd never have had the cajones to rip into a project like that when I was his age.. and he *would* have gotten it done, eventually.

Great minds think alike..

Ya think?

Chuck, what kind of exhaust/ intake mods on the Mighty Scura? Also, you feel confident that the TPS baselined on a clean throttle plate? Exhaust is a full Staintune system.. headers, crossover, and mufflers. Open air box with the English filter that looks like a K&N. Forgot the name.. Power commander, so no telling what it's doing. Yeah, I took some pains with the TPS because of that first reading..

Just an update.. after setting the Mighty Scura's CO back to zero from +40 (!) I had a lean stumble. Set it to +20, and that went away. It was the last ride of the season, so haven't fooled with it any more. Fuel economy? Hard to tell. I was at 41 mpg at zero.. but.. I've seen that under certain conditions when it was at +40. Spring will get here eventually..

Damn! That's gorgeous.