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

Checked and re-routed clutch cable slightly, lubricated it and adjusted.

Tyre pressures checked and ready to go once I can get away this morning hoping to do at least a 200km round trip, country roads, will be good for the engine to get out of town. Going to visit a town called Toodyay (pronounced Too-jay) on my travels. Bit cooler today, only 27c.
 
So went for my first country ride today and bike went well, right up until the point the distributor lead or whatever lurks under the tank started to come loose. Turns out it was split so became gradually worse. Had to stop every few km to push it back on but was grateful I could get home under my own steam, and that it's such an easy thing to fix. Should have bought new leads from the get go.
 
Did the Christmas toy run yesterday, along with five thousand other bikes, never knew there was such an infestation of hardley rideables in Adelaide, where's my Roundup spray ;)
 
Legs said:
Did the Christmas toy run yesterday, along with five thousand other bikes, never knew there was such an infestation of hardley rideables in Adelaide, where's my Roundup spray ;)
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Bloody Gay Pirates are getting as bad as MAMILs  :o
 
Got the cam chain back on today (following Red's advice from an earlier post) using an assortment of shoe laces, coat-hangar wire and carefully calibrated intake cam holding tool:



 
aebbern said:
Got the cam chain back on today (following Red's advice from an earlier post) using an assortment of shoe laces, coat-hangar wire and carefully calibrated intake cam holding tool:



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Hi Andy

the engine looks very pretty! Love the workbench top as well ;)

in all seriousness, I think the engine is going to be a beast, good on you!

Paul LeClair
 
Spent the better part of the day fighting with the Dellortos on my triple.  After replacing all three pump diaphragms and assuring that the remainder of the system is working as it should, all three accelerator pumps refuse to work (which, by definition, refutes my claim that "the system is working as it should" I suppose).  Looked in the Forum archives and the consensus in the past was "hell with it, you don't need them" so hell with it - I give up.
 
Have you checked the one way valves (one in the float bowl and one in the pump housing on each carb) are working as they should?
If not then the fuel won't reach the accelerator pumps.
Did you bleed them?
Did you calibrate
 
Grant said:
Have you checked the one way valves (one in the float bowl and one in the pump housing on each carb) are working as they should?
If not then the fuel won't reach the accelerator pumps.
Did you bleed them?
Did you calibrate
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No need to check, simply replace them.  Saves hours of useless fucking around...

piet
 
I spent hours of useless fucking around and checked, I thought, everything.  The fuel pickups in the float bowl seem fine - as in the little ball allows air past going into the carb body but blocks flow back to the bowl.  The brass valves at the top of the carbs move easily and as I mentioned I replaced the diaphragms.  Wolfgang told me to pull out the brass valves and squirt fuel in to prime the system but that didn't work.  Is there a better way to prime the system?
 
Good suggestion but I shot carb cleaner into them and got a good stream out of each jet.  Seems odd to me that all three carbs are misbehaving...maybe bad Karma...or simple incompetence. 
 
19753C(E) said:
I spent hours of useless fucking around and checked, I thought, everything.  The fuel pickups in the float bowl seem fine - as in the little ball allows air past going into the carb body but blocks flow back to the bowl.  The brass valves at the top of the carbs move easily and as I mentioned I replaced the diaphragms.  Wolfgang told me to pull out the brass valves and squirt fuel in to prime the system but that didn't work.  Is there a better way to prime the system?
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Not really necessary.  Replace both valves and you'll have 'em squirtin' within 10 strokes of the pump.

Gave up re-using these valves, even though they "seem" to be OK.  It only takes the tiniest leak to render them useless.

Of course, all passages and jets must be checked for blockages.

piet
 
19753C(E) said:
...  Is there a better way to prime the system? 
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I use a 'common as muck' fuel mixer syringe like this,
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Connect a small diameter vac/fuel hose to the end / suck some fuel into the syringe / remove Dellorto float bowls / push fuel hose over the end of the 'IN' pumper valve / apply a little pressure to syringe plunger (but remain calm and patient) / fuel will gradually fill complete passageway and start to squirt out the jet nozzle. 
Well, it should, or there's still a blockage, and the fun continues.
I agree with Piet's advice, except that, I still regularly check and re-use the pumper non-return valves. Most still work ok, but that's after they've sat for a while in the ultrasonic cleaner with all the other assorted carb parts.
<edit:  and after priming, always lift the slides a few times to ensure all is well >
Mark
 
Paul Marx said:
Spent loads of money :'(
Paul
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Keep working. Early retirement sucks. I tried it once and I have never worked so hard for such small returns in my life. (OK I was 28 at the time and we had opted for an alternate lifestyle, even sold the Laverda to help fund it - got f'n knobs on it)
 
Davo said:
Keep working. Early retirement sucks. I tried it once and I have never worked so hard for such small returns in my life. (OK I was 28 at the time and we had opted for an alternate lifestyle, even sold the Laverda to help fund it - got f'n knobs on it)
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I plan to open a bar with girls and rooms upstairs and deal in Laverda parts.
Paul
 
..... and for visiting Laverda owners, free colostomy bag emptying plus double strength viagra. Free use of Stannah stairlift to get to the action.
 
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