thanks to Exmoor Beast for pointing me to eBay UK for the oil pan. Seller initially reluctant to ship to Canada, but when I agreed to buy enough stuff, seller agreed to ship. Seller of the Centauro oil sump also has most of the other parts I have been looking for, except a set of stock mirrors. Seller good enough to post all the other bits with an agreed buy it now, which I have used and purchased, and they will ship in the same box when I "win" the Centauro oil sump, which ends in another day and a half.
oddly, also through eBay UK I found a seller in the USA who custom makes the various otherwise unobtainable Weber Magneti Marelli fuel injection parts I need for the Centauro. Apparently he went through the same fruitless search process I did for his own rebuild, and has the skills and tools to custom machine the bits, so he now offers to make them for others. I have my order in. Only have the left side fuel injection injector body off and apart and cleaned, now need to remove and disassemble the right side and run through the ultrasonic.
in relation to the Guzzi cam belt tensioner tool Helicopter Jim so kindly lent me, the tool does not appear to be available from any vendor I could find. I tried to arrange 3D scanning and then 3D printing in an appropriate material, and the local minimum charges are prohibitive. $500 Canadian minimum charge to 3D scan, printing costs in appropriate material in small batches were stupid. So, older newer tech, I dropped the tool off for copying the base component in steel cut out and drilled by water jet. "Only" a $100 minimum charge, so I am going to have several cut out as part of the first $100, then decide whether to produce many more. Will still need to fabricate the second part somehow, looking into that.
I am in a bit of a Centauro assembly lull again, waiting on the remaining parts to arrive from outside of Canada, but I am idling along, have the front end refitted mostly, using all new stainless fasteners as I go, brakes are cleaned and back on with new pads etc, just need to pick up some DOT 4 brake fluid to flush and bleed. Fingers crossed, I could not manage to split the calipers to rebuild them, all the clamping fasteners are too rusty, even after cleaned and soaked in penetrant, the heads stripped out of them. At least i know they are tight...... I gave up. just cleaned them and put new pads/pins in, we'll see .If they become an issue I will just replace them. I am running new fuel and vacuum lines, still cleaning as I go. Refitting stock drag handlebar for now, have been given a set of adaptors that will allow me to fit any 1 1/8 inch bar of my choice to the top mount using the adptor, but need to mock up the rest of the bike so i can measure to see what rise/bend etc of a replacement bar to order.
still have not found new fuel injectors, but have found several ultrasoni cfuel injector cleaning services, may have to go that route.
current state of progress, photo attached. The measuring cup under the engine is how much expensive fresh synthetic Amsoil 5w 60 oil has leaked out of the cracked sump in roughly 24 hours, bloody hell..... No wonder the entire rear of the bike was heavily coated in oily crap, must have been running like that by previous owner for quite a while, just repeatedly topping up the oil level.
Paul LeClair
motomeccanica.ca
www.la-moto-italienne.com
