Chuck

Well, I know Rox and Richard. There was another Scura on a ride to Ojai about 3-4 years ago, but I don't remember his name. 3 Scuras is definitely a rally.

John, the above covers exactly the way I feel. I have a good friend that has an early Thruxton, and after riding it was having a hard time saying something nice about it. Same deal with the Bavarian Money Wasters. Gimme a Guzzi. Chuck, deacon Church of Guzzi

I think the difference is bicycles often spend more time BELOW the point where counter steering takes over from direct steering as the best way to steer where as motorcycles spend considerably more time above that point, But both motorcycles and bicycles have the same steering characteristics. At lower speeds they both direct steer well. As speed increases, counter steering becomes the only way to steer. FTFY

So. Who's Scura?

Actually, I never realized it was different from riding a bicycle etc. until I went to SoCal and rode with some *really* fast guys. I was the "painfully slow" guy until Todd Egan took me under his wing and said, "Look. Your are doing everything wrong." " Put your bike right here (about 10 feet ! behind him) follow me, stay at the same distance, and don't touch your brakes. You won't need them." We proceeded to spend the afternoon in the Santa Monica mountains going faster than I'd ever gone. It's not the same as riding a bicycle. That's all I'm going to say about that.

I think you were the first correct answer..

I won't bore you with all the details.. but the DSM (Distinguished Stupid Mechanic) put the o ring on the wrong side of the shims. What *was* he thinkin?? That adds .060" to the normal .030" gap, and the magnet loses it's ju ju as the missing tooth on the phonic wheel goes faster and faster. ECU says, "What did you say?" Better play it safe and shut down. It wasn't all for nought, though. I learned how to check everything at the ECU using KR's excellent pdf, and how to make sure the relays were working normally, courtesy of KR, too. Thank you, sir. Doing all that got it to the point where it *had* to be the timing sensor. I also have a much better understanding of how all this stuff works.. always a good thing.

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I'll give it a look.

Of course, the gap is important. I just cleaned, resealed, and reinstalled with the same shim, though.

That was one of the things that was on the tank off list. It was weeping, so I pulled it, cleaned it, and put some hi temp silicone around the o ring and reinstalled it. I know they are fragile, and maybe a wire broke, but the test at the computer plug looks ok. 703 ohms instead of 680 sounds ok to me.

I'm posting this stuff on WG, too. More ideas couldn't hurt.. Here's Kiwi Roy's excellent V11S test point layout and what I found.. 2018-03-25_04-07-12 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr

It won't go above 2000. Acts perfectly normally untill 2000 and instantly dies. In my recollection, I've never heard of this one.

Ok, it's *not* the TPS. What I was seeing was simply overtravel of the meter set on mv. Setting it on DC volts, it travels very smoothly from .150 to 4.75 volts. What else can cause the engine to suddenly stop running at 2000 rpm??

Didn't touch it. I'm familiar with how fussy setting it is.

I'm impressed. Not many can live on Coke, Moon pies, and Red Bull. In the olden days, it had to be RC.. Red Bull hadn't been invented yet. Oh. Nice going at Daytona..

"What's a Henway?"

I hate it when I don't understand what is happening. I just finished going through the Mighty Scura. Most of the tank off check list, plus one of Scud's nice fuel lines, and a new fuel line from the right injector to the PRV. I had to remove that fitting from the injector so I wouldn't break something, but that is the only thing I changed over there.. oh.. unplugged the injector and TPS. Finished everything up, pushed it out in the hanger, and it started right up and did it's lumpy idle thing. Started to ride it up to the Guzzi Garage, and it stopped dead as soon as I gave it some throttle. Hmmm. Tried it again. Same thing. As soon as it went to 2000 rpm, it died dead as a mackerel. I've *never* heard of this before. Yeah, it's repeatable. Hooked up Guzzidag, and looked for faults. Nada. Hooked up my tester to the TPS, and it wasn't where I set it last. Not terribly far off, though. It was about 175 mv. Moved the throttle a little off idle, and the tester said OL. Can someone explain this to me? I'm *assuming* the TPS suddenly magically went bad? TIA..

henway..

All I've ever used in u joints is Mobil 1 synthetic grease. It's what is in my grease gun..

More than your average rebuild..

You may be right. Honestly, I don't care. I like them, and if they eat the rotors, I'll put new rotors on it eventually. For sure, you don't want to run them on cast iron rotors. They *really* eat them.

I'm jealous, Scud. Thanks for the vicarious biking and baking, though.

I like EBC HH pads front and rear.

I don't know how they are making these springs. I had no problem holding plus or minus 2 degrees on the angle, and plus or minus .005" on the diameter, though. Once set up, a production run should be *very* consistent. The few Scud sent me aren't terribly consistent, but they'll work. Whatever..