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

Finally finished the repair to the side panel. Managed it without painting the whole thing- having to have redone the pinstripe would have been beyond my shed spray painting skills! Found a match to the paint in Fiat Rosso R2202
 

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laverdakeith said:
Stick B8's in if. Kidding yourself on if you think you are riding it hard enough to warrant B9's.

    Keith
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Hi Keith,
I'm more than happy to listen to experts' advice - and certainly not kidding anyone (least of all myself!) that it will get ridden that hard. I've got a box of B8EVs in the garage.
How about the RGS though? I've been using B9EVs for many years/kms....

Alan :)
 
Aren't the 9s effectively colder? So in my inexpert view, can't see how you would need those in a lower compression RGS, especially if they are barely needed in a Jota..but no doubt Keith will give an expert view. My feeling is that if one cylinder is giving plug trouble, you have a carb issue....
 
EV has a thin Gold Palladium tip.
I prefer them over ES as I find it gives better running.

Alan, see how you go with the replacement plug. The carb internals are all new and the carbs were ultrasonic cleaned so hopefully it was just a dodgy plug.
 
G'day Maurice. I get dead lugs now and again when the missus is moaning!  :D
As Grant says, the EV plugs are Gold Palladium and I've found that they last much longer than the ES; they come at a price though, if you can find 'em.

Grant - another 60 miles on the Jota this afternoon. It's got some urgency to it! :D I gave it a few quick blasts up to 4000rpm and it's running really well. I think it was just a dodgy plug.
Had to back off the idle speed as it was over 1500rpm, suggesting that things are loosening up.

:)
 
It will be interesting to hear, once you rack up more miles and get it run in, how it compares with the RGS.
Much as I like the engine in the Corsa I have to say I prefer the 180 engine, especially the breathed-on one in POP.
Your Jota definitely has some urgency in it.
 
I put B8ES in all of them. 9's can make them moody and EV's just cost more. Buy a box for twenty odd quid and change them when you change the oil.



    Keith
 
laverdakeith said:
I put B8ES in all of them. 9's can make them moody and EV's just cost more. Buy a box for twenty odd quid and change them when you change the oil.  Keith
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Since I ditched using NGK's and moved to these havent had a dud one... even when the foul on the Corsa if the stupid rider forgets to get the choke off in time they come back within a K or so of easy riding... Worth the money alone in terms of saving time removing the tank alone to change out the dud NGK's...
 

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In my haste to remove the headlamp, i disconnected the rats nest of wires inside my Jota 9 months ago and before a house move, figuring that a combination of photos and memory magic would serve instead. Turns out my photography  is slightly more shit than my memory. I have downloaded three wiring diagrams from various sources, none of which matches the colored sspaghetti lurking in there. So having bragged to my Mrs, that this weekend would be the grand reawaking of the beast, sadly all remains quiet in the neighborhood. Bugger !!!!;
 
Reassembled the front end in the RGS mongrel. Put the specified amount of oil in for those forks, which was twice as much as what came out. I reckon they would have been pretty spongy like that. Dropprd the triple clamps 10mm down the forks, seeing as you guys reckon it looked too high in the front (or too low in the rear).
Rear shoks are 360mm eye to eye. I think that's about what they should be. But maybe I should dream up some kind of height-adjustable mounting for the shocks.
 
Grant said:
365mm standard, 375mm better.
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Thanks Grant

I'll figure out a way to jack-up the arse end. Maybe weld an alternative top shock mounting on the frame.

BTW, I found a use for an empty Bundy Rum bottle. I put it on the kitchen scales and filed it with 410 grams of water (=410cc) made a mark on the bottle at the resulting level and used it to measure out the 410cc of oil for each fork  :D
 
Vince has it right....I just don't think there are as many dodgy plugs as dodgy engines or set ups. Mine used to foul...not surprising given the amount of oil that was being burnt! Seemed to run for a while at least on diesel though...smoked a bit ;)
 
I rest my case.

Let the engine settle down.
See if anything else crops up.
Engine is freshly built, Sachse ignition, new coils, Kawa alternator and Shindengen r/r.
Carbs are new inside. New wiring loom.

One plug fouled.

Running in is required.
 
Grant said:
I rest my case.

Let the engine settle down.
See if anything else crops up.
Engine is freshly built, Sachse ignition, new coils, Kawa alternator and Shindengen r/r.
Carbs are new inside. New wiring loom.

One plug fouled.

Running in is required.
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Exactly - and running-in is what it's getting. Now 92 miles on the clock :D and yesterday's ride was peachy! :-*

 
I would drop the oil out soon and check the torque on the head studs, then start to let it run as it wants without lugging it.
Had to run the Corsa in as the engine was as tight as a crab's arse at 90 fathoms, and now currently running in POP.
The trip to Breganze really freed off the Corsa engine. It had around 5000km on it before the trip and around 10,000km after it.
White finger vibes died off and the mpg improved dramatically.
 
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