Lucky Phil

I'm thinking more a tighter "class" of thread. Bit like cylinder stud fit the crankcases the first half of the thread is neat and they firm up after that due to the class of thread. If you run a std bottoming tap through them they end up loose all the way thats why I don't do that. Ciao

Just the usual engineering stuff. Straight cut take up less room, simpler to make, more efficient due to no axial load generated than a helical gear set. Their disadvantages are less strength for the given dimension and noisier in operation. Straight cut are the gear of choice for camshaft drives as most exotic engines with gear driven cams demonstrate from Honda to Ferrari to Ducati Desmosedici. Ciao

Good image and explanation docc. I've not experience one that's broken so don't know what the failure mode is. Ciao

Not a great idea I'm afraid. Ciao

Yes docc they get that way but seriously they are getting on for 25-30 years old now. I have 3 sets of Centauro/Dayton T/B's as well as my original V11 set and the adjusters are still functional. Not sure what the original is made from but the disadvantage with Nylon is it swells when subjected to moisture which A POM like Delrin isn't affected by. Considering the knob has a close fit in the pivot fitting and it needs to have some thread friction I considered Delrin a decent choice of material partly because it doesn't have the water swelling issue, is easy to machine and chemically resistant. Happy to be educated otherwise. Aluminium wouldn't have the natural thread friction and where it engages with the pivot fitting would be subject to fretting from engine vibration I would think. Ciao

I'm willing to here about other plastic options. Ciao

Forget the aluminium it'll be a loose sloppy mess in a few thousand klms. It's also needs to have a relatively high natural friction in the threads so it has an inbuilt stays where it's been adjusted to anti vibration design. Plastic is perfect for this and as I mentioned on another board Delrin would seem to be a good choice. I'd be interested in one or 2 myself in plastic but not aluminium. There's a reason the oem is plastic. Ciao

I haven't and they dont have knock sensors either. Same as the Lambda closed loop system only operates in steady state conditions and as the V11 is a Sporting motorcycle it doesn't see a lot of steady state operation unless you're droning along a freeway. That's why you can disable the Lambda system which many do and the bike runs equally as well if not better. The 15m/rc has no ability to adjust for different octane fuels. The octane rating of the fuel and what Lambda reads are not related. Ciao

My fairing and front guard look 1x1 to me docc? Ciao

They can, easier that way. Ciao

They do make replacement ecu's. My Ducati 1198 has a Microtec ecu, direct drop in replacement for the std ecu. Fully programable, cost...... $1100US. Ciao

The crank has moved. Look at the keway on my install compared to yours. Make sure you rotate the engine by hand with the plugs out to check for interference before you button it up. Ciao

You seem to be all over it then so you won't have any issues. Ciao

Some current automotive systems do have octane sensing devices for the ecu. You can even buy stand alone octane measuring devices that indicate via a display in the car what the current octane rating is. Ciao

The V11 ecu does not have these capabilities. No knock sensor and no ability to adjust for different fuels. Thats a few generations on from the V11 15M ecu. Ciao

Tunerpro is used to edit .bin files or "the maps" if you like not to download and upload the .bin file. That is done by the Guzzidiag reader and writer programs. So Guzzidiag allows you to view your bikes injection system in real time while it's running and see all the Parameters etc like throttle position and various environmental sensor outputs. It also allows you to adjust the CO setting and on some bikes reset the TPS reference point and turn the LAMBDA on or off. The reader and writer programs allow you to download the .bin file (or maps) from your ecu and save them on your computer and then the Tunerpro programme allows you view the .bin file in human understandable form and to edit the .bin files to create whatever changes to the file/maps you want and save them to your computer and then use the Guzzidiag writer programme to upload the modified map into your bikes ecu. The .bin file is a computer geek file in Hex and computer language, Tunerpro turns that into something that is layman understandable and simple to edit. What map do you load? Any map someone emails you or you find on this forum via a .bin file. Simply download the file onto your computer open the reader select the map and with your laptop connected to the bikes ecu simply write the new map. Or take your original map open it in tunerpro and make changes or edit the maps yourself. Save the map on your computer and then load it into your bikes ecu with the writer programme. It's identical to tuning a carburettor just via a laptop. So you think your bike is running badly at a certain point, look at the fuel map at that point ( so throttle angle and rpm) and lets say richen it up 3% in that area. Save the new map file and name it on your laptop and use the writer to load it to the ecu. Take the bike for a ride and see if it's an improvement. Yes then add another 2% and try again. No lean it off again. OR if it runs worse on the initial change then go back 6% from your new map ( 3% leaner than stock map) and see how that goes. Pretty simple and you can't hurt anything with small changes like 3-5%. Then the same for ignition if you like and start enrichment the list goes on. If you have a few maps to look at you can look at them on tunerpro and see where the differences are between the maps and if your bike is not running as well as it should and you have another map thats different in that area then edit the map thats in your bike and use those values from the other map and see what the result is. This is how bikes were tuned when they had carbs. making changes via jets, throttle slides etc then riding them and seeing what the result is. For most people this will be good enough. A bike that starts well, warms up well, idles well, responds to the throttle well, doesn't use too much fuel and is nice to ride. If you want something closer to perfection then you can hire some dyno time and an operator or get into the world of data logging engine lambda. Ciao

God I'm even less confident now. Next it'll be ditching the airbox. Ciao

Take your pick. Anything from pauldaytona will be first class as he's one of the people behind it in the first place. How much is an old giveaway winows 8 laptop? probably a Giveaway, ie nothing. People use Guzzidiag on apple products. Also look at Tunerpro. Tunerpro is what you use to modify the .bin file you download with the Guzzidiag "reader". It's seriously NOT rocket surgery:) Believe me if I can get my head around it anyone can. https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+Guzzidiag&rlz=1C1CHBD_en-GBAU863AU863&oq=youtube+Guzzidiag&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i546l2j69i64.7419j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Ciao

My suggestion to you is to spend some time learning about the system on the V11 and Guzzidiag, there's plenty of detailed information out there going back about 12 years since Guzzidiag was invented. You will then realise that this add on box is a waste of money because Guzzidiag in conjunction with Tunerpro will do everything it does without being an add on and for free. But as a start here's some information. You totally misunderstand how the 15M system works on the Guzzi. Basically it has base fuel and ignition maps ( as well as start enrichment and a few others) as all systems do and it adds trim values to the base maps dependent on atmospheric and operating conditions. So engine temp, Baro pressure, inlet air temp etc. It also takes commands from your right wrist via the TPS and the known engine rpm looks at what the base map is saying and all the environmental trims and injects the appropriate amount of fuel and applies the appropriate amount of ignition advance. As environmental conditions change such as Inlet air temp, engine temp, baro pressure so does the amount of fuel injected and the amount of ignition advance. It's all done in "real time". It's a very capable system and doesn't need any do dads and hang ons to do it job. It can be easily tuned via Guzzidiag and Tunerpro even for people with very basic computer skills like me. Ciao

We will indeed. I'm not feeling too confident myself though. Ciao

You don't need to worry about this as the piston is at TDC when you do the clearances and the valve can only drop a few more mm than opening and it hits the piston. Ciao

Yea I had to buy it specially on the "net" Ciao

As weegie mentioned an extra deep 32mm impact socket. The torque figures are in the Shop manual. Crank Nut 110-120nm, alternator nut 80nm, cam gear 150nm. If you look in my "how to" for this task you will get some hints on holding tools etc. https://www.abc.se/~rasmus/1100Sport-torque.html Ciao

Not saying the world is going to remain static with regards to motorcycles but I live with the electric scooter and public electric pushbike bullshit in my city. Electric pushbikes available to the public to rent and transit to wherever they want is a total failure with bikes dumped anywhere and the helmets they come with littering the streets. So many dickheads here it's pointless. Personally I believe the future will be a mix of ICE and EV's. Porsche is already building a synthetic fuel manufacturing facility as we speak. Currently there is a thread on wild Guzzi asking what you'd ride if you couldn't ride a Guzzi and nobody has mentioned wanting an EV, even the EV fanboys that jumped on the woke train 6 months ago. Personally I'm a recalcitrant and will not succeed to the big brother mentality which I already do. Ciao

How does this relate to motorcycles? This is a scooter ridden on footpaths. A big issue here is the clowns that ride them don't have a brain so can't be trusted to apply common efing sense when riding around pedestrians. Ciao