What did you do to or for or with your Laverda today?

martymoose said:
Same, no noise under load. Dimpled valve not the problem, i swapped out all the adjusters for the rotax ones, noise still there, swapped them back, noise still there. Adjust clearances from 6 and 8 thou to 3 and 4 thou, noise still there. Newish cam, newish followers, noise is not valve train.

I am running the original pistons and gudgeon pins, that is my guess. Hoping to pull it apart shortly.
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I had a similar noise. The cam chain roller was D shape, instead of rOund. Obviously didn’t rattle when it didn’t turn, but when it did turn ……. Sounded like bad piston slap.
 
Dellortoman said:
It may have been at one time, but not any more.

I don't think it's an original Laverda part. Looks like something off a Japanese bike.
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Just a bit of corrosion, no heat damage (yet). Bit of a tidy up and a smear of grease’ll fix it for another 40 years. But glad I found it in the garage, rather than on the road 👍

P.S. yes it’s Japanese, and original Laverda equipment…
 
Alzero said:
It’s the never ending argument: a high MTBF (mean time between failures) vs an easily user serviced item. IMHO in the early days of electronic ignition, for example, there was a good argument for retaining points and condenser. But as the MTBF increased the balance shifted. Nowadays the failure rate of electronic systems is so low that the increased maintenance of the legacy systems tips the balance firmly onto the digital side. How often does one have to replace an ignition module on a newer car or an engine management module for fuel injection vs the constant fiddling required with points and carbs?

Now, some folks find great satisfaction in checking point gap and dwell on a semi-monthly basis while others simply want to set it and forget it. How do you want to spend your weekends: fiddling with your ignition or carbs or riding and driving. Or working on a new project as opposed to continually messing with the old ones? You can guess which side I was on….
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It is a never ending discussion.
I spend my weekends riding mostly and do about 10 000 km a year on 750 Laverda with points. Timing is set every 5000 km or so.
Nearly all the ignition related questions concerning 750 Laverda on this forum relate to electronic ignitions. The remainder relate to people looking for points.

Paul
 
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