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

Yes - was a few bob - but less than some Jotas!! - My 90? SF has the "Gold Star Twitter" too. Spent a fair bit of my Yoof knocking about with mates on their Goldies - My A10 Norbsa was quicker but motor was crap design so not too reliable - Regards - Phil

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phil37 said:
Yes - was a few bob - but less than some Jotas!! - My 90? SF has the "Gold Star Twitter" too. Spent a fair bit of my Yoof knocking about with mates on their Goldies - My A10 Norbsa was quicker but motor was crap design so not too reliable - Regards - Phil

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You want to get a set of piggy back shocks and a pair of radials on that.

                                          Dave
 
Was planning to do some Laverda stuff, but a friend asked me to have a look at her lawn mower which wouldn't start. I expected it to be a 5 minute job. How complicated can a lawnmower be? It's got spark and will fire up if I squirt a bit of petrol down the spark plug hole, so it's gotta be a carby problem. So I dismantled and cleaned the idiotic plastic carby and put it all back together. Still no go. Spent all bloody morning tinkering with the stupid thing before the "WTF am I doing this for?" penny dropped, and I took it to the mower shop. I got Laverda things to do.
 
Hi Vince It Starts 1st kick - hot or cold - PO got it so that it could be used much more easily. It has a BTH electronic magneto - 12v electrics, Mickey Rooney carb, Pearson clutch (uses Suzuki plates) unleaded seats, stainless valves, colsibro guides , external (Rocket3) oil filter and loads of other little mods. Engine built by Pearson  http://www.bsagoldstar.co.uk/ 1000 miles ago - bit worried though as it doesn't leak any oil!! - It ticks over better than most Laverdas!! - Regards - Phil
 
Decided to buy a set of starter rollers for the race bike rather than stick an alternator back on.
Will try again next season.
Paul
 
Stripped and ultrasonically cleaned the Jota's carbies (with my new ultrasonic cleaner). The carb bodies and internal bits didn't look much different when they came out, but the water in the cleaner ended up pretty black and there was sludge in the bottom of the tank when I tipped the dirty water out. So it must have done something. I haven't finished reassembling the carbs yet, so I dunno if it's made any difference to the bike's performance.
 
Those ultrasonic cleaners are great but although I removed a huge amount of crap from my 1200TS carbs and they looked like new after several sessions in the cleaner, the bodies must still have some crud in them because they dont work properly. They fired the bike up and then after a couple of minutes stopped working probably after having pulled some hidden debris through.
I reckon I'll get all the old deposits out eventually though and I have to say whilst they appear relatively unworn they were in the most gunged up state I've ever seen carbs in.
In the meantime I borrowed the carbs off my 3CL and it fired up and ran well.
 
3patC said:
In the meantime I borrowed the carbs off my 3CL and it fired up and ran well.
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Which is what prompted me to give the Jota carbs a clean. I tried the carbs off the RGS track thingy on the Jota and they seemed to work better. Both sets of (Mikuni) carbs have the same jetting, so I thunk the Jota carbs might need the Colgate ring of confidence (whoever remembers that ad is showing heir age  :D)

However, while I had the jota carbs on the bench, I noticed that the float levels were quite different (a couple of mm lower or leaner) than the RGS, so I re-set them as per Red's advice - float bottoms parallel with the bowl mating surface. Same as the settings on the RGS thingy's carbs .

Now if they do happen to work better, I'll never know whether it was the cleaning or change of float levels that made the difference. 

Didn't some wise person (I think it may have been Phil Irving) say "Only change one thing at a time"?
 
I removed the coils, the ignition modules and pick up trigger coils from my seriesII Jota in preparation to fit the new shiny DMC/2 ignition system.

All I've got to do is sus out wot wiring has got to be removed before installing the new loom thingy.
 
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