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

sfcpiet said:
Normally a 5-minute job... ok, 8, with fitting of the new bearings. :D

piet
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Does that include removing the swinging arm? :D

                                          Dave
 
dja981 said:
Does that include removing the swinging arm? :D

                                          Dave
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OK, that's a half hour extra with re-fitting of the wheel. :D

piet
 
Went out to the shed with the intention of removing the Jota's clutch.
Found neither of my 32 mm sockets is deep enough - it's a series 2.
Bugger... :-X
Had a beer instead, then ordered a deep socket off ebay.
Need to time-sert the stripped threads in the head as well.

Steve
 
Last night I pulled 750 generator parts out of the molasses, not ready yet.
Any one know the length of the two screws, that hold it together and if they are M5 or M6?
Also after a source for the insulators.
 
Finally got POP insured today!
90 euros TPO with roadside assistance.
It isn't possible to get a higher level of cover here on older bikes.  (angryfire) (banghead) (bang)

Also got breathalysed during a roadside spot check.
Second time in my life. First time was a spot check in Australia.

I guess the Spanish militia police must think everyone is celebrating Christmas early, or maybe they need income for their Christmas party...
 
chrisk said:
Last night I pulled 750 generator parts out of the molasses, not ready yet.
Any one know the length of the two screws, that hold it together and if they are M5 or M6?
Also after a source for the insulators.
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Screws are M6, Chris.  Put one together with a nicely zinc-plated body today.  Didn't think about measuring the screw length.

piet
 
phil37 said:
  Back in the eighties there was a clever bloke called Leon Moss (LEDAR) who developed an air jet corrector kit that could alter the shape of the fuel slope so that you could richen or weaken it at (almost) chosen revs. To try and make the  simple D/O's into an air bleeding type of carb I started  similar work on the D/O's using a proper emulsion tube rather than a needle jet and a threaded jet in air inlet to the emulsion tube - initial results were promising, but the fire at Motodd ended the work prematurely. We did do a successful "powerjet" system - but only useable on the dyno.!  I have got a pair of D/O's that Brettoni was working on (allegedly) and it looks like he had a similar idea to mine. - I'll try them on my 860 soon. - That 107BHp @6,200 Rpm must be a great motor - I'd like to gear it right up and have a lovely "lazy" ride. - regards - Phil
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Haven't heard the name Leon Moss for many years Phil.  LEDAR stood for "Lincoln Engine Development and Racing"  Leon used to be in partnership with John Penistan in the mid 70's with premises in Coulson Road Lincoln before moving to an old WW2 building on the edge of what was the old Skellingthore Airfield - now Birchwood housing estate.  Leon was a very clever engineer.  I  knew them when they used to rebuild the Novamotor Toyota F3 engines for us.  I saw John about a year ago when he turned up to design an airflow rig for a local engine builder.  Last I heard of Leon was that he had moved to Peterborough and opened a dyno facility.  Paul.
 
:D gave it the once over and took it for a quick ride before filling the tank ready to head off to the national classic rally tomorrow afternoon.
 
  Last I heard of Leon was that he had moved to Peterborough and opened a dyno facility. 
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Hi Paul - Sadly I believe Leon is no longer with us. In the early eighties we got Steve Elliott's SFC dynoed on Leon H&F DPX3 water brake - print out was from a Sinclair computer onto a silver type bog roll. We did go to his Peterborough unit to get a Laverda dynoed and used his figures to set the calcs on our own dyno the next day - I did take weather /temp readings at every interval as Leon's figures were the most accurate (by most in the know's opinion) at that time. As it turned out our ex BSA H&F rolling road dyno meant my C15 was really only a C12 as the factor used by BSA was 20% above Leon's readings. - Regards - Phil
 
I thought the c11/12 engine produced about the same power as a C15, but then I also didn't know a dyno would test that low.
 
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