Steve G.
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You might want to check Gustafson Windscreens in Florida, it's bound to be cheaper than OEM.
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You will have to check the number of flutes [bumps] on the lower end of the filter, and get a wrench with the correct amount. A UFI and a Fram PH 3614 have a different number of flutes.
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Sorry John, yea, 3 on the rear, and I have 2 on the front.
Inspection reveals the pan, and screen to be spotless.
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Just cleaning the screen out at the 20,000km oil change. Please tell me how many screws hold the pan on. I see 4 each on the sides, 4 on the back, and there was only 3 on the front. Please tell me Luigi did'nt bother putting all the oil pan screws in. The front middle hole has no sign at all of ever having one installed.
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I will certainly bow to you guys who retain incredible knowledge with regard to Moto Guzzi. Perhaps what you are saying Pete, by saying get real, is that pre-spine frame Guzzis are so tough, that you could run unrefined crude oil in the things. Is there something substandard about spine frame equipped engines that more fragile? I honestly would like to know.
Everybody knows catalists are broken down with zinc, and that's why they took it out.
So let me get this straight, Porsche equips and reccommends "wonder snot" into it's new cars. Pretty mickey mouse lot them?
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If you are looking for the phosphorzinc additive, you will find it in the turbo deisel rated CC/CF oil. API spec SJ, the latest type, will not have what you are looking for. API spec SG can be considered the best automotive oil you could use in your bike. After SG was superceded in the mid ninties, zinc PPM fell dramatically.
The best of course, and probably overkill for your baby because the Guzzi does not share it's engine/gearbox lubrication, is a proper vegatable based full synthetic rated API spec SG, with also JASO rating. Who has that rating? AGIP 4T 20-50 Super Racing, Castrol R4 Superbike15-50.In the U.S. the best deal for this spec is Mobil 1 V-twin 20-50 motorcycle, and in Canada the best deal [by far] is Kawasaki 4T 15-50 full synthetic, made by Mobil 1.
This specification of oils are the only ones I would consider using if you are planning on stretching you change intervals out to 3000 miles. Non synthetic used, I would change it every 1000 miles.
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I can understand basic hop up stuff, but Al, if you want to go real fast, push a squid out of the way and get a ZX10R. This is a air cooled pushrod 2 valve twin. As an engine is basically a self powered air pump, maximum efficency does not come with this kind of package.
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Don't waste your time with tubing and clamps. Just go buy a couple metric socket head bolts and put them in there instead of the nipples.
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There's no denying the beauty of Staintune exhaust. I'm one of those old fashioned lads who like shiny things. I derive no visual pleasure looking at carbon fibre, which to me looks like the underside of a fibre glass dune buggy body. Hey, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The exhaust on a motorcycle is a very important visual part of the motorcycle, unlike most all 4 wheel boxes.
It's just too bad Staintune in Canada is worth about 1/4 the current worth of my bike. Verrry expensive!
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The right side can grinds.
Now that I have Evoluzione footpeg kit on, the pegs sparkle. I like that!
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Let's face it, tools are toys for men just as much as motorcycles. The more you have, the happier you are. And my teeth grind when I can't do something because I don't have the right tool. My tool box is about 6 foot high, 6 foot wide, and is full. Bear in mind, that I have bikes from different areas of the world, so need whitworth, metric, and imperial standard.
If you are into maintaining your own machines as I am, just do the work right. People who brag they can do any maintenance with a wooden mallet and a vise grip, amuseingly make me feel sorry for them.
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I know what you're talking about Brian. I got the same answer when after 13 months of ownership the original battery gave up. I think I'm about to get the same answer with my incorrectly built up drive shaft, making it impossible to grease the front u-joint.
A car company could'nt play this game, it makes you wonder how bike companies can do it.
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Did Castrol mention whether this comment was applicable to air cooled engines, liquid cooled engines or any engines? The tolerances are quite different between the two.
It's hard to argue against the engineers at Castrol, I mean they make synthetics [very good ones] as well, so the could in theory sell more of them if they said to use synthetics right away. I don't know!
I'd just go the safe route, do what it says in the owners manual. Engine makers design and produce engines based on the lubricants available out there, and oil companies are given oil parameter guidelines from governments, and also to a lesser extent engine companies.
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Hi Brian,
It's pretty clear to me this is another vibration related thing, and I've seen vibration related stuff happen on all bikes of every origin.
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I can vouch for the Ferracci air box fit. The induction roar is all encompassing, overwelming the exhaust sound on my slightly modified stock Lafranconis.
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I think the current exchange is US $1=AU $1.48, so the exchange is heavily favoured towards the US dollar, the AU. dollar making up huge ground however in the last year.
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I'm of the opinion that spine framed machines have an inherant weakness, and it is frame flex. I've resigned myself to that high speed instability that has been labelled "willowy" in many magazines. Stay away from the bumpy roads and it doesn't seem to be an issue.
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Hi Ryan,
Yes I've heard they have it now. Can you tell me if their 94 has methanol additive like their other gasolines? I've always had nothing but problems with the high amount of methanol in their product.
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You guys in Europe may pay way more for your fuel, but you guys sure have the top level stuff available. Here in Western Canada, the best we can do is 94 octane, and only at selected Chevron stations.
Oh I forgot, I can go down to the local airport and top up with aviation gasoline, 110 octane, for about 300% more than local 94.
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My bike knocks like hell if I use anything less than 92 actane. However, mileage has not been an issue. My low fuel light has not worked since new, so was never really sure how far it would go, till one ride with my brother on his Exxon Valdez [GS-PD] with 9 imperial gallon tank. Believe it, 290kms on the V11, with steady highway/motorway speed of 125kms/78mph.
Remember than high octane these days is a bit untrue, actually it uses a flame inhibiter to prevent pre-igniting [pinging/knocking].
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Is your bike one of the older ones with the gearbox sleave jambing issue?
My rear brake seized on me after a spirited ride once. The brake puck had fallen out of it's correct location. Don't know why, but when I installed new EBC pucks, the jambing stopped, the brake groaning stopped, and the rear brake actually works, and the pucks have lasted 20,000kms, instead of 4,000kms for stock.
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If your passenger will put up with the less than ideal passenger sitting, the addition of Techno bags will not phase them. They do slide about 4" forward and back to allow for footspace.
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To start these engines with EFI, forget the enricher[more on that later]. Just give it 1/2 throttle, crank it, and it will fire quickly.
At the risk of cheesing off some out there who find this sensitive type info, I will just whisper it, .............................................................................
that choke thing, it's not a choke or an enricher, it's just a fast idle thingie to prop your throttle open so it won't stall when cold.
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I'd like to think my driveshaft will last that long. Problem is, my bike was installed in a batch of 2001s that had the front universal joint installed backwards, and as a result, as my main guy at my local dealer said, there's not a hope in hell of greasing it, even if the driveshaft is removed from the bike.
Another #@%&!*G pissoff, makes you wonder how these people at the factory boil water for their morning tea.
I've got 8 months left on my bike, but clearly Moto Guzzi North America has signed off my bike as being out there too long to cover anything now. I'm on my own now. How much does one of these drive shafts cost anyways? I just checked, and they want $69.30 for a Seimens relay. Yes, that's 69.30,...... for a relay!
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Castrol full Synthetic auto oil in a Guzzi?
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Like I said, you guys put bunker crude oil in yours, I'll put the best in mine. Everybodys happy.
Oh, and ignore everything that the manufacturerer of this machine recommends, any kind of oil will do, and, oh yeah, that break in procedure, the regular maintenance, greasing the u-joints, well we know better.
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