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

Grant said:
Got a bit more done on the Jota.
Finished off the headlamp wiring, fitted chain, sidestand.
Just waiting for a couple of relays and then the wiring is finished and I can start it up and get it fettled.

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Great to see it in grey primer, Orange paint on order i take it  :D
 
Wellsy said:
First light of day for after 7 years.
Started finally after rebuilding starter motor and getting float levels right. forgot how loud the bike is :D
Just needs brake hoses and linkages ,side panels spraying .
Wellsy
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Praise the Lord and pass the contribution, another GREEN triple.

looks fantastic  8)
 
Finally got stuck into the SF2.
Dropped the exhaust which if money permits will mostly not go back on. I'll just be keeping the silencers to put on new long tubes.
Primary cover off to check since I'd found that side noisy. Chain tensionner with only 10 000 km on it is knackered due to my drastic overtightening this summer. Otherwise evrything seems ok. A bit of slop in the clutch cush drive rubbers. Wear on the clutch drum bronze bush which is annoying since it was new last winter. There seems to be a lot of slop in the duplex primary after maybe 20/25 000 km.

Whipped off the selector cover on the other side since during the machines' last outing, the gear lever wasn't returning correctly and there was some difficulty in selecting correctly. One of the arms of the hairpin spring had slipped off the eccentric. Will put a second washer on it's shaft when I close up.

Changed the clutch cable since clutch action had become heavy and the cable must be 15 or so years old. What a bastard of a job. Getting the crankcase adjuster out and the new one in took me longer than all the rest! And the clutch is still as heavy. Will dismantle the clutch itself and since selector cover is off, will check the pushrods and ball since the bike has seen a lot of town use over the last couple of years.

That heater in the garage is the best thing I've done in years.

Paul
 
Davo said:
Praise the Lord and pass the contribution, another GREEN triple.
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My Jota was originally green, but the PO painted it orange. Dunno why - maybe he thought green wasn't Laverda enough.
The orange paint is looking a bit tatty now, so I'll get it re-done in its original green some time when I have nothing else to spend money on.
 
Spent some time balancing the carbs on the Jota today because the bike was a bit rough on the first little crack of throttle off idle. Blimey these Mikuni carbs are sensitive. It only takes a tiny little tweak of the balancing adjuster to throw the vacuum gauges all over the place. It's about as good as I can get it now, and the transition off idle is a lot better, but I reckon I might need to go up a size in idle jet. Got #17.5 in there at present with the mixture screws at about 1 turn, so might order a set of #20 idle jets.

One advantage of Dellortos is that they're a lot easier to balance.
 
They are rough if you just crack them open Cam,  you need to ease and then crack, Lothar will be along soon to explain the intricacies  :P
 
Dellortoman said:
Spent some time balancing the carbs on the Jota today because the bike was a bit rough on the first little crack of throttle off idle. Blimey these Mikuni carbs are sensitive. It only takes a tiny little tweak of the balancing adjuster to throw the vacuum gauges all over the place. It's about as good as I can get it now, and the transition off idle is a lot better, but I reckon I might need to go up a size in idle jet. Got #17.5 in there at present with the mixture screws at about 1 turn, so might order a set of #20 idle jets.

One advantage of Dellortos is that they're a lot easier to balance.
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That is because they are not very precise in their metering which is why you changed to Mikunis..... I change the belcrank screws to cap heads and have made a special tool out of an old socket to turn the eccentric nut and a T handle 3mm allen wrench to nip up the lockscrew. The advantage of using a cap head rather than the original posidrive is you don't need to push down on the throttle bar while tightening the screw. I'll post a pic of the do dad thing I made later.


    Keith
 
Changed the clutch cable since clutch action had become heavy and the cable must be 15 or so years old. What a bastard of a job. Getting the crankcase adjuster out and the new one in took me longer than all the rest! And the clutch is still as heavy. Will dismantle the clutch itself and since selector cover is off, will check the pushrods and ball since the bike has seen a lot of town use over the last couple of years

Paul
[/quote]Do yourself a favour and get yourself a Dam Easy Clutch Mechanism  ;) Ya wont look back . You will be able to lift more pints when ya get to the pub.  8)
 
hooksey said:
Changed the clutch cable since clutch action had become heavy and the cable must be 15 or so years old. What a bastard of a job. Getting the crankcase adjuster out and the new one in took me longer than all the rest! And the clutch is still as heavy. Will dismantle the clutch itself and since selector cover is off, will check the pushrods and ball since the bike has seen a lot of town use over the last couple of years

Paul
Do yourself a favour and get yourself a Dam Easy Clutch Mechanism  ;) Ya wont look back . You will be able to lift more pints when ya get to the pub.  8)
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a) there's no pubs or pints around here.

b) clutch used to be reasonably light, ie lighter than my SFCn now its heavier so something is amiss.

c) keeps my guitar hand in shape

;)
Paul
 
Paul Marx said:
The steel sleeve on the LH end of the crank was quite free. It's usually peened. I stuck it back in place.

Paul
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It wanted to show you the crank is out of true...

Gluing it back won't keep it there for long.  If you're really lucky, it will work a hole straight through the case.  :o

piet
 
DoC! said:
Nice Joe.  8)
Just don't ever overtake me on an MV on a Baskerville rideout (2013) again otherwise I'll have your curlies. I do have the video evidence.  :o
I like your 'First love is the sweetest' remark.

Cheers

DoC!
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I needed to get off the darned thing !! It was killing my derriere !  :o
 
sfcpiet said:
It wanted to show you the crank is out of true...

Gluing it back won't keep it there for long.  If you're really lucky, it will work a hole straight through the case.  :o

piet
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I had one of those drill a hole in the chaincase of a triple this year but the crank was cock on. The sleve had spun previously on the end of the crank before I rebuilt it and the new one was a bit loose but I thought it would be ok with a bit of loctite and re peening. Bloody wasn't.... ended up making a new slightly undersize sleve which fixed it.

  Keith
 
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