Interesting. I didn't get the splined shaft that turns in the floorboard mounting rail when I bought my footboards so I adapted an Eldo item. I always thought change would be poor if shaft was longer to reach gearbox lever mounted for 1 up 4 down pattern. So that's a little mystery solved for me.
I just assumed they shifted 1 up, 4 down as all the Eldo's & Ambo's I'd seen did.
UK Police never used Guzzi's except maybe odd few on test I think and GT850 Cali's (Euro civilian version) sold in single figures here as far as I can tell are very rare in UK so nothing to compare with.
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Factory floorboards or "Police floorboards" by default come with 1 down (3 or 4 up), that was a requirement by the police forces, so there is no need
to
modify them.
On Monday 09 July 2001 03:24 pm, you wrote:
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Modifying the shift linkage in this way seems a good idea to me on bikes with the factory footboards as it moves the operating lever much closer
to
the support bushing, as well as making the shit pattern the now
universal
one down, four/three up. Don't know about footpeg models.
I did this on my Cali some years ago & it works fine. I probably have a drawing of the modified shaft somewhere too, if anyone wants to see it.
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----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Bowes <kk-@home.com> To: <Loopfram-@topica.com> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 2:09 AM Subject: RE: Shift Linkage and pattern
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Paul,
Actually, you would have to modify the shaft which the shift lever is connected to. It is easy enough to flip the actuator arm on the back
of
the trans around the other way, but then the corresponding lever on
the
pivot shaft will be off by about 5 inches. The only way that I can
think
of getting it to work would be to move the position of the arm (which
is
welded to the shaft) about 5 inches to the left in order to get it to line up with the new location of the actuator. This means that you
would
either have to grind off the weld on the existing arm and move it
over,
or better yet, fabricate a new arm and weld it in the new position.
Here is a link to a photo of the shift linkage on my Ambo, which is
set
up with the footboards and consequently the "reverse" shift pattern.
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Paul Linn wrote:
Does anyone have a good clear picture of how the linkage should be setup on an Ambo and Eldo. Placing the arm on the rear of the transmission differently can also change your shift pattern, correct? Facing
right,
standard shift pattern for Guzzi (1st Up, all others down). Facing left, reverse shift pattern (1st down, all others up). If I wanted
to
change the arm to the left, I would then have to modify my linkage to be able
to
reach the shift shaft, correct?.
Paul 69 Ambo .5 74 Eldo Greensboro, NC
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