Subject: hello all
Author: STEVE FARRIS
Date: Oct 16, 2004, 12:43 PM
Post ID: 1717711131
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Hi everyone,
My name is Steve Farris, I live in SW New Mexico, and have been lusting after a Moto Guzzi for 40 years. Recently I broke down and got two old loopframes, a "71 Ambassador and a "72 El Dorado. While both start, and drive neither runs well enough to want to take it much further than the nearest gas station. I'm hoping to use the parts from both to get one running well enough to have something to play around on while I tear the other down for restoration. I found Greg Bender's website via Guzzi Tech and he has been kind enough to give me some advice about my Eldo's clunking rear drive line which I am currently investigating. Here are a couple of other questions for the group, please excuse the fact that I am new to guzzi's and haven't got a clue.
1) the ambassador starts ok and has decent power but backfire's constantly. I cleaned and reset the points, and reset the valves. It runs better but still backfires (not as bad). My friend who has a '72 eldorado says he thinks it is pulling air in around the exhaust nut on L cylinder (it has stock nuts which are in pretty bad shape). I am planning on replacing with the newer two piece nuts, and also heard that the condenser could be the problem so will replace that as well (do I need guzzi condenser or will something from NAPA suffice?). Any other suggestions as to the cause of the backfiring?
2) I had the rear wheel off the eldo checking brakes and wheelbearings for source of noise coming from rear end. Bike sat about 3 days after I pulled wheel cause I have been too busy to mess with it til today. I went out this morning and started it up to put it in gear and see if the noise was coming from the u-joint. When I started it, it began blowing liquid out the crank breather tube. I opened the oil filler plug and the crank is full of gas/oil mix all the way to top of filler plug! I'm assuming this was somehow caused by me leaving the fuel petcock on for several hours the day I took the wheel off? Any ideas, suggestions, should I shoot myself now or continue the torture for some time further before dying of a broken heart?
Thanks
Steve
PS the PO has the fuel crossover hooked up without any in-line filters could this in any way exacerbate my problem?
sf
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<DIV>Hi everyone,</DIV>
<DIV>My name is Steve Farris, I live in SW New Mexico, and have been lusting
after a Moto Guzzi for 40 years. Recently I broke down and got two old
loopframes, a "71 Ambassador and a "72 El Dorado. While both start, and
drive neither runs well enough to want to take it much further than the nearest
gas station. I'm hoping to use the parts from both to get one running well
enough to have something to play around on while I tear the other down for
restoration. I found Greg Bender's website via Guzzi Tech and he has been
kind enough to give me some advice about my Eldo's clunking rear drive line
which I am currently investigating. Here are a couple of other questions
for the group, please excuse the fact that I am new to guzzi's and haven't got a
clue.</DIV>
<DIV>1) the ambassador starts ok and has decent power but backfire's
constantly. I cleaned and reset the points, and reset the valves. It
runs better but still backfires (not as bad). My friend who has a '72
eldorado says he thinks it is pulling air in around the exhaust nut on L
cylinder (it has stock nuts which are in pretty bad shape). I am planning
on replacing with the newer two piece nuts, and also heard that the condenser
could be the problem so will replace that as well (do I need guzzi condenser or
will something from NAPA suffice?). Any other suggestions as to the cause
of the backfiring?</DIV>
<DIV>2) I had the rear wheel off the eldo checking brakes and
wheelbearings for source of noise coming from rear end. Bike sat about 3
days after I pulled wheel cause I have been too busy to mess with it til
today. I went out this morning and started it up to put it in gear and see
if the noise was coming from the u-joint. When I started it, it began
blowing liquid out the crank breather tube. I opened the oil filler plug
and the crank is full of gas/oil mix all the way to top of filler plug!
I'm assuming this was somehow caused by me leaving the fuel petcock on for
several hours the day I took the wheel off? Any ideas, suggestions, should
I shoot myself now or continue the torture for some time further before dying of
a broken heart? </DIV>
<DIV>Thanks</DIV>
<DIV>Steve</DIV>
<DIV>PS the PO has the fuel crossover hooked up without any in-line filters
could this in any way exacerbate my problem?</DIV>
<DIV>sf</DIV></BODY></HTML>
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