Chuck

I'm cautiously optimistic. They've been in service long enough by now that if they were going to break, we'd have heard of at least one.. Unlike the OEM design, the spring calculator says they "shouldn't" break.

I think you are on the right track by draining the tank and getting *all* the water out of it. Of course, that may not be it, but.. (settling in to camp chair around the fire) Let me tell you a story. One time a guy asked me what was wrong with his Luscombe. His little 65 horsepower Continental would purr along.. hiccup.. then continue purring. He said he was getting afraid to fly it. I said, "You didn't drain the carb at the annual inspection like you are supposed to, did you?" "Uhh, no." We did that, and he lived happily ever after. Water is funny stuff.

Weird. Dorcia and I have sat in stop and go traffic at the Daytona bike week and clown show with the Centauro for extended periods without any heat related issues at all. I dunno..

At the Indiana Guzzi lunch Sunday, a guy told me he knew of a Greenie with bags for $2500. I told him buy it..

I dunno.. I had a 64 when I was a kid, and I couldn't kill it. Need I say I'd like to have it back?

Like Mark Etheridge said to me.. " You going to put that money in your casket, are ya?"

Scud has them..

When I was going through the Centauro, I used the depth measurement end on the calipers. I would no doubt permanently affix the sensor to the flywheel using the JB method.

^^^^^Like I said, I have a dollar riding on it. I had to let the moths out of my billfold to make sure I had one.. (Guzzi content)

The thing about machinery is it won't give you grief on purpose, unlike (ahem) some people. Patience and Perseverance *will* get to the bottom of it.

Phase sensor. I'm betting a dollar, now..

My bet is on the phase sensor, too. It certainly can't hurt to put fresh gas in it, though, although didn't you have this problem before the trip?

Ok, the old dawg watched it and it was just what I expected. No good ones, and the die is already broken. For the time it took, I could have made metal dies on the mill. Edit: Look, I'm not knocking 3D printing. I use some printed stuff in the shop daily.. but what he is trying to do here is beyond the capability of plastic.

Cheesehead is Rick. He and Gordon are MG Cycles. Good guys. No I didn't watch the video. I'm also an engineering modelmaker and I've made 100s if not thousands of prototype parts. I'm aware of what temporary tooling can and can't do. .048" stainless in that part? I'd be surprised if you got one "good" one.

Uh, yeah. Joe is talented all right.. Dorcia and I hung out with him in the pits of the Cannonball run one day. He explained all he did to make the bike reliable. When riders were coming in from the day's run, pit crews were scurrying around fixing this and that. When Joe's rider came in, he said, "Everything ok?" "Yeah." "Have another beer, Chuck..

Just buy one from Cheesehead and Gordon at MGC and be done with it.. And from the video.. 3D printed sheet metal dies.. will it survive? No. No it won't. Trust me, I apprenticed as a sheet metal diemaker.

How about Ventura? I'm leaving to see The Kid for the weekend.. yay.. but I can give you details next week.

Fuel was probably burning in the exhaust system. You've seen blue header pipes and thought it must be running lean? Not necessarily.

I got tired of replacing that stuff, and just set an unbaited mouse trap in front of the hole. The ones with big yellow pads.. I hate meeces.

This. Hooking up a V11S to a chair would be like hooking up a Ky derby horse to the Budweiser beer wagon.

Peter Egan bought one.. and a Himalayan.

RE has it going on. If I were in the market..

I'd pass on the 400F powder coat curing temp. When I did the AeroLario, I thoroughly cleaned it with purple power, went all over it with red scotch brite, wiped it down with thinner, masked and rattle canned it. Still looks good years later.

It depends on what you call easy. You'll need a puller to get the bearings out, and that small seal in the back is a booger. As long as you don't change anything, there's no need to mess with the gears. If it is a pre 87, there is a lube mod that needs to be done.

I ran regular in the Centauro on the advice of Dave Richardson. Never an issue in 42000 miles. Of course, I run premium in the 2V engines.