Subject: RE: An odd chance.....
Author: Greg Bender
Date: Sep 7, 2005, 8:21 PM
Post ID: 1719400898
A 5/16" nut! Lannis, you should be ashamed using non-metric on a Guzzi
;> Your Eldo was just getting rid of what wasn't supposed to be there in
the first place. :-)
Lannis wrote:
Was riding to work yesterday on the Eldo, running down a long hill, when I hit 70 mph the bike started cutting out momentarily. Sounded like both cylinders at once, not like fuel starvation, so I was guessing electrical. By the time I got to work, it was missing so bad I could only hit 45 MPH or so. It started up for the ride home in the evening, and would start missing just a little at 55 or so, which is where I kept it. Got into it this evening, it would start and idle fine. Checked the distributor, everything seemed tight. Pulled the left sidecover, and there was a 5/16" nut nestled right between the positive battery terminal and the battery hold-down frame. It was spot-welded to the hold-down frame, every time I tried to fish it out it would throw a spark till I remembered to pull the negative terminal. If I'D tried to design a 55-mph rev-limiter for that bike, I couldn't have done it, but it designed its own with no help from me.... Lannis |
Regards,
Greg Bender
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