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

Brett said:
oh and I learnt what a door closed respray is... pretty crap if you ask me.

The Cico ran great it's rapidly become the sentimental favourite... got home around 1ish full of flu and spent a few hours sorting out Vince's wiring and trying to pin down the cause of that damn oil leak which pisses me off... perhaps we have nailed it now only time will tell.
Anyways ended up kicking Vince out and shutting the shed door and dosing up on flu tablets and Whiskey... good old Paddy's .........
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Are you another pommy? Lots of whining!
 
drikko said:
Are you another pommy? Lots of whining!
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OK OK so get the boot in when a block is crook as rookwood, I'll pay that and try to be more positive moving on forward shall I.
so therefore I saw a lovely looking vehicle which had to quote the seller " aclosed door respray "... perfect name for a bodgie spray job.... just great mate !!! white outside and cream in the door jams noice... just noice... bit like a taxi wash in the old days I guess...

Oh and the real reason asked Vince nicely to leave was so I could go inside and get pissed on some single malt IRISH whiskey ... no poms here......
Is that better oh and the plate on the Nomad reminded so much of me good ole mate Drikko........simply substitute the D at the end for a TE and you get the picture...... something about a snakes belly and all that seems to fit...

Now just for all the closest Poms  out there spotted this fastback .. 

Hands up all those who can remember getting pulled over by one of those 318 police spec Chargers...
used to do the wheel alignments on them and then take them out for a burn till I got busted one day using the lights and siren down Ryde Road... wasnt a good look for the boss needless to say was looking for a new job the next day...
 

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I was just happy to hear my bike start after the spark went bye bye last weekend, thanks again Brett. Still not sure where the spark went to, hard to believe a bit of fine oil spray on the wiring for the oil cooler lines made it go dark.It hadnt lost a lot of oil but what it did loose misted just about everywhere.Hope the new rubber oil cooler hoses fixes it.
 
Been chasing an air bubble in the front brake system for a while now.  Tying the lever back to the bar overnight improves things for a while, but as the brakes get used they get soggier.  Can't really take the clip-on off the bike too easily to tip the master cylinder up, so I got a bit of tube to make a dummy handlebar, took the master cylinder off and fixed it to the tube, bike on its side stand and tied up the lever again this time with the lever pointing upwards.  Hopefully the bubble will make its way up to the top of the system now, but it's been an elusive little bugger. ::)  May need a new master cylinder seal kit.

 
rowdypat said:
....and one too many heads for a 245  :)
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Your screen resolution must be better than mine. Can only see one blue lid on my screen ( and I can't remember which side the 245 slanted towards)

 
Reggie3cl said:
Been chasing an air bubble in the front brake system for a while now. Tying the lever back to the bar overnight improves things for a while, but as the brakes get used they get soggier.  Can't really take the clip-on off the bike too easily to tip the master cylinder up, so I got a bit of tube to make a dummy handlebar, took the master cylinder off and fixed it to the tube, bike on its side stand and tied up the lever again this time with the lever pointing upwards.  Hopefully the bubble will make its way up to the top of the system now, but it's been an elusive little bugger. ::)  May need a new master cylinder seal kit.
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It does start to sound like a master cylinder problem. For me it always works just tilting the master cylinder each way and using the very first scrap of movement of the piston, the bit that squirts brake fluid into the reservoir so it needs a careful touch. A line of bubbles comes out of the port and it firms up, and I have never had to resort to the tied back lever method. If more air just keeps coming it is not a good sign.
 
Yeah, I can get it to firm up, but after some use it goes soft again.  The piston must be failing...
 
Reggie3cl said:
Yeah, I can get it to firm up, but after some use it goes soft again.  The piston must be failing...
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Pfffffff............. fnar fnar.... :LOL:
 
chrisk said:
::) Leaving it alone won't help firm it up.
Reggie, tying it back may work, but is is a trick usually reserved for Lady-boys, but hey, whatever floats your boat.
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Damm you Chris...every time now for the rest of my life I'm going to feel dirty and somewhat soiled when I use that trick to get the last bit of air out of racebike brakes.
 
Hi Reggie,
This is what happens when you brake too hard too often ;) I did have a new seal kit fitted professionally to my Jota brembo front brake a few years ago, and after it displayed the symptoms you describe, which I stupidly ignored, it failed at about 90 mph on the motorway..no harm done luckily, but after that ditched it for a New Grimeca which has been fab.No need for 4 pot calliper  sand all that sort of stuff. Squishes my tyre very nicely :-*
 
:D :D  No doubt the big problem with the o/e setup is the ratio between the master and slave cylinders.  Problem is finding a master cylinder that is the right size for tyre squidging madness without being able to pull the lever back to the bar- guess the Grimeca is a slightly smaller bore?  I'll get a new seal kit ordered up for the m/c toot sweet.

 
Many years ago I bought a 14mm master cylinder from the wreckers. It was off a Suzuki, I don't remember which model. It is the type that uses a remote reservoir. Possibly not the best solution and certainly not original but worked better than the original m/c (which is 5/16" or just under 16mm).

I read somewhere that radial master cylinders are a big improvement over the standard type but have no idea what type is best suited to the standard calipers. Probably a fairly pricey approach as well.

Cheers,

bazzee
 
bazzee said:
Many years ago I bought a 14mm master cylinder from the wreckers. It was off a Suzuki, I don't remember which model. It is the type that uses a remote reservoir. Possibly not the best solution and certainly not original but worked better than the original m/c (which is 5/16" 5/8"or just under 16mm).

I read somewhere that radial master cylinders are a big improvement over the standard type but have no idea what type is best suited to the standard calipers. Probably a fairly pricey approach as well.

Cheers,

bazzee
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Fixed.......

Laverda used 14mm on the Corsa  gives better feel though the lever is more travel makes the clutch feel better too... as they also had a 14mm.

You can get your original one resleeved to 14mm biggest issue is getting a piston kit.
 
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