Subject: Re: the reassembly starts
Author: EldoMike
Date: May 9, 2002, 12:27 PM
Post ID: 1710227226
Hey Joe, you still gonna be by next week?
Mike
www.classicguzzi.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "joe jump" <jum-@hotmail.com>
To: <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 2:19 PM
Subject: RE: the reassembly starts
| Jeff, The process is also described in the old Chilton's manuals, |
| cover a number of different bikes from the era (might be available in your local public library). The books call out special Guzzi tools, but I think you might be able to do it using a degree wheel set up on the crankshaft |
| a dial indicator set up on the rocker. You need the specs, i.e., intake |
| @ XX deg before botttom dead center, closes XX deg ATDC. Those specs rely upon a checking clearance (valve lash), and hopefully they are listed too. |
| think I have the data somewhere-if you can't get it I'll look around for them. The cam gear is held on with a center bolt and a dowel pin. The gear has 5 different holes for the dowel pin, which is how you vernier in the cam. |
| number of teeth on the cam gear (I seem to remember 72)does not divide evenly by 5, so the drill is move the cam forward 1 dowel pin hole, then rotate the cam back a number of teeth. with this method you can degree in your cam within a degree or two. If you have a feel for what I'm talking about, then this may be |
| If not, contact me off-list. I went through this whole drill last fall |
| my V7 Sport & I have some extensive notes written up on it that may shed some more light on it. It's really not that tough once you understand the process & you have the tools. Joe in St Louis jum-@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device:http://mobile.msn.com |