Lucky Phil

Elegance, engineering purity? You may as well ask Ducati why they bothered with that lovely bevel drive system on their old twins, or their continued adoption of Desmo valve gear or MV Agusta on why they bothered with silly gear driven cams on their road and race bikes or Honda on their VFR series or Rolls Royce for using shaft driven bevel gears on a Merlin engine. If you need to ask then you probably wont understand the answer Always found chains are best left for the bedroom activities Ciao

Welcome back, life does that sometimes, make that all the time. Ciao

Images added to original post. Ciao

Not quite, these are straight cut not helical and about twice as beautiful and I suspect the same multiple quality wise. Ciao

Steel. Ciao

Well after years of sitting on these puppies I have finally gotten around to fitting them.The fit is very nice indeed. Elegance. Original chain drive in good condition after 42,000klms The original cam retaining bush which had almost zero wear at 42,000 klms which was a surprise. The updated cam retaining bush. Note the oil feed reliefs machined into the front face to improve lubrication. I had one of the new ones on hand but otherwise I would have just die ground the reliefs. The Lucky Phil cam/crank holding tool.Being the lazy type I made this up with very low expectations but it worked a treat. Just goes to show sometimes you can overthink things and simple is best. Leverage is your friend...sometimes. Gears installed and ready to button up. From the other side. New crank seal installed. Be silly not to. Gears were greased lightly for the first start. I pulled the ignition pickup and put 500ml of oil in there so the gears have some lube for the first start. This area of the crankcase only gets the oil from the front main bearing and cam bearing leakage plus any that might slosh forward under braking from the sump. So the gears rely on the oil pump gear picking up trapped oil in the bottom and flinging it up the gear train and crankcase vent oil and main/cam bearing overflow. Hence filling the well so to speak. A new metal timing cover gasket also installed. Now to replace the manual fuel tap that decided not to shutoff when I was pulling the tank. Faulty somehow. Not very safe to have liters of fuel pouring out the fuel tap with the tank halfway off and not able to be dropped down again so the fuel hose can be connected. After that its the gearbox support plate to install.

Looks like I'll be seeing you at PI then. Let me know if you need anything. I live about 1hr 45 away from the track. Ciao

I'm sure I have seen other parts of it on ebay. Just assumed it had been totaled ages ago. Ciao

Amazing to think Pete that Guzzi used alloy oil pump and cam drive gears as standard fitment to the Daytona and Centauro engines. I have a couple of sets that I dont particularly want to re use hence the Joe steel gear set for this engine as well. Ciao

As the supply of original pumps dries up the gap has been filled with aftermarket pumps some are fine and others of poor quality. I have a German made DAS pump which is very nice quality but availability is poor. Joes pumps will use the Ducati design for the secondary gear mentioned previously which is superior as well as a better drive gear bushin/bearing and higher quality with hopefully better availability. Ciao

The first thing that comes to mind when I look at the 650 is Centre of Gravity. Ciao

No docc didnt mention the V11 cover. Are they still available new? The original Daytona/Centauro covers were plastic and tended to crack at the mount points I'm told. Ciao