Since the motor is apart, definitely check the cylinder walls- if they are scored badly/ peeling ,etc, you will need to replace them and I suggest the Gilardoni sets from MG-Cycle- with pistons and rings too- more economical than sleeving.
I use a small plastic bristle brush and engine degraser to get the carbon deposits off- if there are no chunks missing from the valves and the seats look good you can lap them yourself for cheap-
I would get the carb rebuild kits.
Make sure the cylinder heads have good threads for the exhaust headers.
Put some inline fuel filters on when you replace your fuel lines.
Check the u-joint condition and the rear wheel splines
if you are splitting the engine/tranny you can check the clutch, starter ring gear etc.
oger wells wrote:
How much $? Lets just say i may have to make some parts out of duct tape... ;-0
Kevin Graf wrote:
Oger-congrats on the loop. How much $$ you got?:-)
Kev
-----Original Message----- From: oger wells [mailto:jambo-@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 1:15 PM To: Loopfram-@topica.com Subject: New Guzzi Eldo owner
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Hello. I am a new 73' Eldorado basket case owner in the Chicago area and
am looking for some advice on where to get a valve job and other machine
work (hopefully i will not need much). Seems to be quite a bit of carbon
deposits on the valves so i was thinking this should maybe be my first move. My bike is now all apart and i am in the process of figuring out what needs to be replaced and what i can leave alone. Are there any "Must replace" items now that i have all the pieces on the floor? The bike is a police model and has 43K on the clock.
Thanks for the help!
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near Berkeley, CA '72 Eldo '74 Eldo '95 1100sport '73 v7sport project