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

Grant said:
Why not change the nuts on the oil cooler at the same time?
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I know!
I just got a bit windy on mine about cutting the compression olive off the ally tail, it was very well compressed into the material and I was worried about getting the replacement one to "bite" or writing off a few hundred quids worth of cooler. I compromised by polishing up the originals
 
Not that difficult. I do it to all the bikes I restore.
Just go steady with the Dremel.
 
I got my olives off with a needle file on the oil cooler - slow and steady wins the race.

I had been foolish enough to remove the oil lines, even though there was nothing wrong with them and stripped the thread off the oil cooler nuts.
 
Perhaps if I was doing a first class rebuild like Grant does I would also have removed nuts and olives but as you can see from pics I have not gone to great expense just want to use the lovely thing again. I have not got other peoples skill or patience to do concours
 
No need to right off the cooler for broken tails.
Local Pirtek fitted weld on adaptors to a car oil cooler for me, much tidier, less flex.
They also brazed the weird size original engine take off stubs to a standard coupling and crimped the hose to that.
Helpful lads.
 
sonicboom500 said:
No need to right off the cooler for broken tails.
Local Pirtek fitted weld on adaptors to a car oil cooler for me, much tidier, less flex.
They also brazed the weird size original engine take off stubs to a standard coupling and crimped the hose to that.
Helpful lads.
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That's good to know, may have a crack at those top nuts yet, then
 

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Seized bottom engine mount.......off to Ray's this afternoon to show it the 10T press, as per Red's advice  (bang)
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Finally found time to spray Boba's carbon with some 2K clear. Looks pretty damn good for an (very) amateurs first attempt at paint and pinnies if I say so myself.

 

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Now I'm certain that God is italian.
Riding out of work today, I noticed that the neutral light on the SF2 flickered on. I've been riding that bike since 92 and it's the first time i've seen the neutral light come on.

The whole ride home, it was coming on and off, in no relation to the gear selected of course though at one point, it stayed on when I was in neutral at a set of lights.

Feels like a brand new bike.

Paul
 
Paul Marx said:
Now I'm certain that God is italian.
Riding out of work today, I noticed that the neutral light on the SF2 flickered on. I've been riding that bike since 92 and it's the first time i've seen the neutral light come on.

The whole ride home, it was coming on and off, in no relation to the gear selected of course though at one point, it stayed on when I was in neutral at a set of lights.

Feels like a brand new bike.

Paul
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You'd better pray in Italian that it's just a wiring fault and not something wrong with the gearbox :)
 
Job Done.  :D with thanks to Red for the method and Ray at Northway Porsche for a lend of his 10T press. That stud wasn't coming out any other way! Needed pushing the whole way. Now the mount needs a good fettle to get the crud out of it.
 

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Harry Lime said:
You'd better pray in Italian that it's just a wiring fault and not something wrong with the gearbox :)
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Grazie mille caro Sig. Lime,
It looks more like a pending electrical problem
Ciao amico
Paolo
 
Prego. Buona fortuna con la caccia [1]

Ciao

H.

[1] I think...Italian a bit rusty now. last time I was there I was skiing - No! Climbing! Good grief!

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Not doing anything with any Laverda (or any other bike for that matter) for at least another couple of weeks. Still got a splint on my left wrist. It's been almost 3 weeks now and the supposed ligament tear doesn't seem to be getting any better. If anything, it's getting worse. I'm beginning to suspect there might be something more to this injury. Might have to go back to the quack for another x-ray.
 
Davo said:
Finally found time to spray Boba's carbon with some 2K clear. Looks pretty damn good for an (very) amateurs first attempt at paint and pinnies if I say so myself.
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Now that's jolly nice paint. Nice job.

FFF
 
Waved goodbye to my motor,  :'( now on its way up to Keith at Laverda  Scozia, thanks to Grant and his van on another whistle stop UK tour.
Good to finally put a face to a name, Grant.
 

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