| | | is in the stock location and he has a stock looper timing chest cover. Interesting idea. Greg, do you know what kind of pump he is using?
Darrell Dick Imlay City, MI
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:32:43 -0500 greg barratt <gr-@tonedeaftouring.com> writes:
| i saw an ambassador vert setup at the ohio rally which had a fabbed up tank and an electric pump. vert tranny, ambo motor. tank was just like a chopper oil tank... i'd like to put an electric pump on a vert project i'm building (pump is missing from timing cover...) anyone done this yet?
i have 2 verts with the lighter flywheel (one of which is the one i'm building above..), i have a spare heavy flywheel, but haven't used it.. they say the lightweight flywheel is unreliable, i haven't had a problem yet. but then again i only have maybe 10,000 miles on the vert..
there is a yahoo group for verts, that someone may know more.. (mgconvert) is the group..
----- Original Message ----- From: "Darrell Dick" <ddic-@juno.com> To: <Loopfram-@topica.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 1:14 PM Subject: Re: Convert Questions
| Hi Mike,
Well, I certainly don't consider myself an expert on the subject, |
but I
| have worked on a couple of 'Verts. Hopefully, I'll be putting some |
miles
| on mine when the weather turns. I fixed one that had a broken |
flywheel a
| couple of years back. I believe that bike had about 40,000 miles |
on it,
| and it had a sidecar attached. My current bike has 26,000 miles on |
it and
| it still has the original sheetmetal flywheel. The point I'm |
trying to
| make is, I think they can last a long time. I know Dave R. in |
Guzziology
| says he thinks it may have something to do with engine/tranny |
alignment.
| I have never ridden one with heavier wheel, so I can't comment on |
how it
| affects the performance. I'd say your choices are:
1. Go with the sheetmetal flywheel and know that you have the |
best
| performing set-up, but you may have to get in there again if you |
put a
| lot of miles on (and you might get stranded somewhere. I wouldn't |
want to
| have to change a flywheel along side the road).
2. Put the machined flywheel on and never have to worry about it breaking, but you'll always wonder how much quicker it would be |
with the
| lighter one.
It really depends how much it would bother you to change it if it |
did
| break. I'm not changing mine until it breaks.
I don't see why you couldn't build your own ATF reservoir. I don't |
know
| if there are baffles in there or not. I'd saay you could probably |
modify
| a chopper oil tank.
Good Luck!
Darrell Dick Imlay City, MI
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 07:00:22 -0600 EldoMike |
<eldo-@netzero.net>
| writes:
| I asked these questions on the Convert Yahoo List but thought |
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I'd ask
| | here also since that group is still kinda small...good group though, |
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so
| | join if you're into Converts(http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/MGconvert/)
Anyway, here are my questions.... 1. I have a perfect earlier/light flywheel that I'm thinking of using on my Convert Custom...Guzzilogy says that the bikes are quicker |
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with
| | the light wheel...also more fragile...anybody else have |
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experience
| | with both the heavy(which I also have)and the light flywheels? |
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My
| | project will probably weigh a couple hundred lbs less than a |
|
stock
| | Convert... 2. Any reason I can't build a custom tranny fluid tank for my Custom...would the quantity that it holds have to |
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be
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