Lucky Phil

Look at my thread on "porosity" John. The 2 fwd and aft side rocker cover screws are inside the cover oring line and so subject to oil in the head and can the supposed blind holes can sometimes be over drilled from the factory so oil migrates down the threads and finds its way out to the external surface. The cam carrier assemblies on the heads are also prone to porosity and they weep there as well. Ciao

What precisely does "full of water" mean? Ciao

You can dump the return anywhere you like but you must use the the regulator. The pump output is above reg pressure and the reg controls the line pressure. Whats the oil leak like John? Big, weep, dripping? Ciao

I have a fully speced Wilbers. Better than Ohlins. Ciao

I just looked up the latest stats. 511,113 Americans have succumbed to the virus to date. Seems some breeze through it barely noticing they have it and others get nailed well and truly. Frome what I can see it's about how each individuals immune system responds to the virus. Some's immune system just goes crazy and causes big issues for them and then there's the people with underlying issues that the virus magnifies. Pauldaytona has had it and was close to death but has recovered to a large extent but not entirely yet after 8 or 9 months. I've been in a full lockdown 3 times now for various time frames, not much fun but in the grand scheme of things from an historical perspective it's a very minor inconvenience. Ciao

Check out these Germans on the Nurburgring. Scroll down in the video's section to "One green hell, please". Note these are road bikes and they know their way around. I rode the ring back in 1984 on a touring BMW and that was interesting enough. https://www.gaskrank.tv/rennstrecken/nuerburgring-nordschleife/ Ciao

You need to check the TPS reading at full throttle. It should read around 4.7- 4.9 volts. If its not then combined with the stop voltage issue you have a TPS problem. If its reading low at WOT then the engine will be lean at full throttle and things will also not be good low down either. So basically you have the r/h throttle blade disconnected from the left, the r/h idle stop screw if fitted wound out, the fast idle lever fully clear of the r/h throttle mechanism and the r/h throttle blade fully closed ( I usually tie it back gently with a cable tie so it stays fully closed against the throttle body bore and doesnt move with the TPS) You have all this and you can't achieve 157mv's is this correct? How many miles on the bike? Ciao

What voltage do you get with the throttle wide open and set at 133MV closed? Ciao

Is that $189usd for a PAIR? Gulp. Put 2 pair on a V11 Sport and you've got about 15% of the value of the bike right there. Ciao

Daytona 1988. Guzzi content at last. If you ever wondered what 5am practice was like at the TT, here you go. Lining up in the paddock for an early morning practice session. More work on the bike at the TT. Here the 750 engine is fitted for the Senior race and we have the cylinders off on the 600 engine. Got a fan club as well by the looks. Here's the bike after the Senior race. Axle the bikes owner in the brown top with the video camera. The guy in the blue sweater is John Williams who raced a GSXR750 proddy bike that year and in the yellow t-shirt is Richard Scott a Kiwi racer that came out to Australia in the early 80's and eventually went on to ride GP500's for Kenney Roberts the next year in 87. Needless to say he was a rather good rider. Here's an image of our rider Pete Muir on the right about go out for the Formula 2 race. The rider on the left is Steve Murray who I crewed for a couple of years before in 84. Steve had been racing at the IOM for years and was at this time 54 I believe and still doing 110 mph laps on a F2 bike. His son is in the background with his bike, a TZ250 Yamaha that used RD250 crankcases as was the requirement for F2 in that the engine needed to be derived from a road bike. A TZ250 with a kickstart shaft in reality. Terrific bloke Steve an ex coal miner before working in the motorcycle industry. He was describing working in a mine and told me "it was so dark you couldn't see your hand behind your back", still cracks me up . He even went to race in Daytona back in the early 750's if I remember correctly. Here one for you guys in the States, Fred Merkel, 1988 WSB Champion (the first year it was run from memory) at the WSB round 1989 Oran Park Australia. BP corner onto the straight. Scott Doohan, Micks brother. Same corner, same year, same(ish) bike. Ciao

True Tom. I'll dig out some more images if they look interesting. Ciao

I got my scanner working today and decided to scan some old racing images. Here's yours truly in the grey top and jeans at the 86 IOM TT during one of the pit stops in the Senior race Marco "Lucky" Lucchinelli in the pits at the Aussie round of the WSB 1989. He was team manager that year. The rider that same year was Raymond Roche