Ted, Email is on the way. No man. No hero here. Just putting back on some of what has come 'round my way on the "Karousel of Karma". You are for sure right about Guzzisti and their generosity. Hacksaw
PS Update on my four speed parts needs. I'm soon to be the proud owner of a BJ Schwartz blessed gearbox.
Ted Ward wrote:
Hacksaw, you are my hero cause I don't have any of them. I was getting ready to start calling. Email me at tedATastrocommaDOTcom.
Thanks a bunch man I'm on a tight motorcycling budget as it is.
Guzzi people are amazingly generous (except for the guy who originally sold me my bike :() got a good set of used clutch plates from Joe Jump and before that a good ring gear from Gary Cheek on the wildguzzi forum.
Since you are all being so generous I will mention if anyone needs it I have a good extra center stand and a magnetti marelli regulator that probably doesn't work but its got the original cover and box and such.
Ted Ward
Hacksaw wrote:
Sounds like not so pretty much fun Ted. Let me know which of the pieces you descibed you don't have. I'm pretty sure I've got 'em laying in 'the pile' & they're yours fer shipping costs. Hack Ted Ward wrote:
I have a worse story, although it may end up being cheaper than your muffler. My rear brake has been vibrating and making noises lately. Yesterday I tore it down everything looked just fine. Tightened up everything just to be sure and ground ridges off pads etc... Put it back
and same old thing, maybe a little better.
On the way home from work I went to apply the rear brake and "WHAM" my rear brake lever is sticking up to about the middle of my batter cover and won't go back down. I look back and my brake stay rod is dragging. I
was only a few blocks from home so I drove on. Got home and looked the bolt holding the stay rod is sheared off, the brake actuating arm (thing
that is directly connected to the brake splines) is broken off, the brake tie-rod is wrapped 360 degrees around the "axle" and the lever that releases the brakelight switch is mangled. I *think* everything else is okay.
Looking back I'm thinking all this has to do with one of two things: 1. My rear brake pads are too thin and the spreader was getting too far horizontal (or vertical) 2. Remebering something Greg Field said and someone else disputed... My actuating lever was pointing down and on thinking about it I think it should have pointed up. This would mean when I hit the brakes the hub would push away from the lever instead of towards it, pushing towards the lever would tend to cause the bike to suddenly brake harder. This is
the way the brakes were set up when I bought the bike.
Fun fun fun
Ted Ward
Greg Bender wrote:
What did I do to deserve this? Left muffler was perfect other than the large crack and the grime from a recent ride in the rain.
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