Topica Loopframe_Guzzi Archive


Subject: RE: The Big Bang!!

Author: Fred Sahms

Date: Sep 12, 2002, 5:42 AM

Post ID: 1710995561



Keith Ruff wrote:
 Well, as I feared most, that metallic noise/clacking while riding has
come to fruition. -snip

Sounds like a rod bearing or two. I don't know your history with this
bike: has the bottom end been apart since you've owned it? The sludge
trap in the cranks on the non-filter models are prone to being plugged
with sludge, starving the rod bearings of oil.


73 Eldo (motor finally together)
78 T3/949

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