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

Bob, so you've moved then?
I reckon Falkirk will be as well known to an Australian as Larbert.
 
Paul Marx said:
Rode to work.
Took my dynamo to bits again last night. Checked thouroughly. It turns out that the two bearings on the shaft have a little play in thier housings. really not much, you can't feel it by hand when manipulating the bearing in its housing but when on the shaft, the play is of course multiplied ending up with the end of the dynamo shaft moving 3 or 4 mm.
I'll reassemble using that nice Loctite bearing glue. If all goes well, it'll allow the dynamo to survive another few decades.
Paul
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I haven't stripped a Laverda Generator yet , but when I was rebuilding VW ones thay have a wavey spring steel washer that sits between the bearing and the end housing at the brush end, this takes out alot of end-play , they also help if the drive pulleys arn't in perfect alignment.

Jimmy
 
Grant said:
Bob, so you've moved then?
I reckon Falkirk will be as well known to an Australian as Larbert.
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the colonials may not have a clue about Falkirk / Larbert (except for kelpies, boat wheels &, for the Africans, cooking pots) but I figure that UKanians are more likely to have a clue where Falkirk is than Larbert (unless they are regular travellers on Scotrail).

Even if they have heard of Stenhousemuir Nil
 
Checked the play in the headstock after seeing how much chatter there was in the front end. Flippin heck. There was so much play I can't believe I ever thought it was tight in the first place on assembly. Anyhoo, tightened her up til no play in the forks and now only the tiniest amount of chatter under extreme braking.

I can't believe how little feel there is in the rear brake. Does't appear to be having any effect and then suddenly as more pressure is applied the rear wheel is locked up. I can't recall it being that devoid of feedback but then it is also a long time since I have ridden it. Mind you, the rear brake on the Triumph Sprint is not a thing of great feel either.
 
Jimmy said:
I haven't stripped a Laverda Generator yet , but when I was rebuilding VW ones thay have a wavey spring steel washer that sits between the bearing and the end housing at the brush end, this takes out alot of end-play , they also help if the drive pulleys arn't in perfect alignment.

Jimmy
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Quite, it's there and is very effective in taking up end float.
Stuck the dynamo bearings in there last night. Will assemble, again the dynamo tonight or more likely tomorrow, we'll see.

Paul
 
sfc1000uk said:
the colonials may not have a clue about Falkirk / Larbert (except for kelpies, boat wheels &, for the Africans, cooking pots) but I figure that UKanians are more likely to have a clue where Falkirk is than Larbert (unless they are regular travellers on Scotrail).

Even if they have heard of Stenhousemuir Nil
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From memory there were one or two dustups some time ago in Fawkirk. Sommat to do with the Poms hating the Scot's guts. Could be another wee skirmish soon, eh.
 
Went to the dentists, then home, then to work.
If it's dry, will ride to the seaside on  Sunday making it a 4 or 500 km week for the SF2.

Paul
 
Davo said:
From memory there were one or two dustups some time ago in Fawkirk. Sommat to do with the Poms hating the Scot's guts. Could be another wee skirmish soon, eh.
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yep, in the dim n distant the English kicked Scots arse here then in the not quite so distant past (1746) the Hanoverians discovered that the Jacobites hadn't read the script: infantry aren't supposed to charge cavalry, especially not when the cavalry is on the higher ground... It would be a mistake to say that one was English v Scots though, as both sides had troops from both nationalities.

As for future skirmishes, god help us, it looks like the ethnic cleansers might win after all, in which case the economy is going to fall apart quicker than even a ducati - the independence campaign are promising higher spending, lower taxes and a reduced deficit: some bugger can't count. It's not that an independent Scotland isn't viable, it's just that getting from here to there is going to be slow, painful and fraught with difficulty  :(
 
"First official meeting of the NE of Scotland Laverda peoples popular front."

That would be Ian then

  So eh""  You are quite happy  to be splittin then''

Shorty
  Canterbury Laverda Independant Trustees Society
 
Like the acronym.
Good job you're not the Canterbury Undersecretary for the National Trust  :D
 
Not a big job, I know; but finally, finally, finally got round to changing the air hoses on my Zan? Formula.

Gotta admit, the old ones were in a pretty poor state ... :o  :-X
 

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Nothing. (Or if you live near the border, nowt)
Spent the evening happily cleaning and re-gapping aircraft spark plugs.
At 25 Euros a plug x 8 plugs, this is worth the effort.
I won't accept anything less than an immaculate result, so wound up binning about 50% of them.
They only last about 100 hours, at least in my engine...

 
no 4 had a nice lunch with miss j at the rathdowney pub-found the prob mark-batt strap broken and batt shifted and pulled neutral wire out and jagged the red pos wire on solenoid-fixed!was a bit close to bello for her to start playing up-glad it was simple
 
yea Paul, was a good day for a ride.  Miss J is happy.
& a couple of coldies and lunch at The Rathy with Bevelman.
& thanks for today's entertainment !!

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the mid-week CLQ orange splinter group.  :D
  Mark
 
VanguardontheLav said:
Where from Craig? Mine look like the former...
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Hi Dick,

Have posted the details under the 'Parts Suppliers and Service Recommends' section.  But here ya go anyways:

Andrew Young
Auto Silicone Hoses Ltd
Unit 1 & 2 Holme Bank Business Park
Station Road
Mirfield
West Yorkshire WF14 8NA
UK

Don't be fooled by the company name, btw: this isn't silicone hose which would be too thick walled to fit  >:(.  Instead it's neoprene hose which the company sells as "1 Ply Black Flexible Air Ducting/Induction Cold Air Feed Duct".

45mm diameter works, btw  :D.

HTH

Craig

 
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