1970 750GT A Few Minor Issues

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Brett64

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Port Macquarie NSW Australia
Hi All,

Well the old girl is back on the road and handling beautifully with the Bridgestone BT45's, I had fitted an easy clutch from Greg Parish and it certainly makes it a tad easier when you have bad wrists. Only issue I had was getting the gears to operate, I fitted all back together as per instructions which I read numerous times considering my memory due to too many bangs to the head over the years....

However I took the cover back off and went through the same process fitting it the same with the markings and then put it through 5 or so tests prior to refitting the cover and all worked well....i must have held my tongue in the right position the second time...who knows.

I am about to check my headlight wiring as I thought I had it sorted as I found two wires wrongly fitted however now I have the brake light coming on when I turn the headlight on but no headlight, the tail light comes on when I hit the brake so I am thinking someone has put the wrong fittings on back to front at the tail light.

The only other thing is the seat which I had a go at re-padding isn't bad but the vibration after awhile is annoying through the seat so what or who in Australia is the best for re-doing a seat?

I will get a new cover as well.

Cheers

Brett
 
Eldorardo in SA is THE BEST for seats and is also right up there for cost.He does very very good factory reproductions. Steve in Springwood,out of Sydney  rode his to the Bellagen rally last year and he was saying his seat passed the vib on as well.My 3C has 4 rubber bungs that clip to the seat base and should hit the frame. Your stuck with the front tang style mount,cannot see a way to rubber mount it to insulate it from vib transmission.The rear mount on mine,3c,I use a rubber gromit on the bolt but it doesn't last long. I had John Moorehouse do his thing,Ergo seats in Queensland do my seat. Not standard as he widened shaped and thickened  the padding to add as much comfort as possible,its better but I still use an Air Hawk to isolate the vibs if I am doing a very big,over 600k day.Still running my engine in after a big rebuild,Carelo rods,and maybe my much improved crank assembly will remove the need for an Air Hawk,we will see.




 
Just further the headlight and parking light are doing my head in with the polarity, it can't possibly have two positive powered cables to them and no negative or have I missed something?

I have been looking at the wiring schematic but it isn't clear, the bulbs are good.

Cheers

Brett
 
Brett64 said:
The only other thing is the seat which I had a go at re-padding isn't bad but the vibration after awhile is annoying through the seat so what or who in Australia is the best for re-doing a seat?
Cheers
Brett
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we can twist the crank for you to 270 degrees, that will cure the engine vibrations and you can leave the seat as is  :D

 
Mr Moorehouse does great work,he did a very nice job on my 3C dual seat.But I was warned when I dropped the Pantah seat off he was slow. That took a good month to do. Cost was fine,result was also fine but it took a fair while
 
was only joking Brett about the twisted crank, you know that I hope  ???

John Moorehouse does great work but he is getting on a bit and has had some health issues
nice guy as well

 
Hi Red,

I figured that was the case....would have liked to see how you do that though!

Ok I will keep that in mind about John.

Hi Vince,

I figured that would be the case, does he do the Laverda cover as well with the signage?

Cheers

Brett
 
Hi Chris,

Yes I had already sorted that out with re wiring. But for some reason all of the negative wires going to the headlight were showing a positive and I couldn't work out where it was coming from so I disconnected them all and re wired to a solid earth and all now works beautifully. Italian wiring!! no colour coding on the schematics I have and minimal information on them.

Anyway just another learning curve as I have had to re wire that many Italian motorcycles.

Cheers

Brett
 
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