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Steve, Are your carbs clean? If not clean only one at a time and use the
put together one as a reference. Bob

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From: Steve Farris [mailto:nmwi-@msn.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 12:43 PM
To: loopframe _guzzi
Subject: hello all

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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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Steve, Are your carbs clean? If not clean
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From: Steve Farris
[mailto:nmwi-@msn.com] 
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004
12:43 PM 
To: loopframe _guzzi 
Subject: hello all<o:p></o:p>

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Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p>

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My name is Steve
Farris, I live in <st1:place w:st="on">SW New Mexico</st1:place>, 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 <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">El Dorado</st1:place></st1:City>. 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.<o:p></o:p>

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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?<o:p></o:p>

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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? <o:p></o:p>

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Thanks<o:p></o:p>

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Steve<o:p></o:p>

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PS the <st1:place
w:st="on">PO</st1:place> has the fuel crossover hooked up without any in-line
filters could this in any way exacerbate my problem?<o:p></o:p>

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sf<o:p></o:p>

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Subject: RE: hello all

Author: Robert Hawkes

Date: Oct 16, 2004, 2:34 PM

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