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

Reggie3cl said:
I noticed the Harley Davidson (R, TM, C) universal adjuster special tool on the floor, partly covered by a cloth...
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Hi Reggie

at least it is only a rubber hammer, I do less damage that way......... ;)

Paul LeClair

ps to complete my Harley misadventure day yesterday, punched myself square in the eye last night with considerable force when the "Tire Wizard" bead breaker came loose under considerable pressure and my hand came straight back into my face, bloody hell, those 16 inch Harley wheels with the reinforced sidewall tires are as bad or worse than breaking beads on cast Laverda rims. Everything on the big Harley tourer seems huge and oversized and overbuilt, almost as if it intentionally was made as heavy as possible. Supposedly "only" 765 pounds dry from the factory, fells more like 900 + lifting it off the side stand.

pps Piet, thanks for the tip, I am almost at the fork top nuts, but I just may give your tip a try re the fork oil, makes a huge amount of sense, thanks!
 
Dellortoman said:
. Just gotta work out how much beer we'll need for 4 nights camped at the track.
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I can help here. Last weekend a couple of mates and I went camping for 2 nights. I took 36 cans and ran out before breakfast on the 3rd day. Fortunatdly one of the others had brought 2 slabs so was able to spare a few.

HTH
 
My first experience moving a Harley came a while back.
A mate had his Electraglide Shovel loose a clutch and I got him home with my trailer. The ramp on the trailer connects to the tailgate gap and I was thinking it would snap the tailgate off while pushing in on. You don't notice how stupid heavy they are riding them till you see this kind of defection. No other bike has come close to doing this.
 
scrman said:
ahh cam-thats my number
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Well, someone has to carry on the tradition now that Rosie has retired  ;)
It wasn't intentional. It never occurred to me that it's the same number as Rosie.

It's also Rick's race number (he's the rider). Maybe he's superstitious, I dunno.
He asked for either 36 or 63, and they gave us 63.

As you're aware, numbers are allocated for each event. So it may be different next time. If I was to be in the pilot's seat, I would have asked for 59, my old race number from the late 70s

 

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Paul LeClair said:
pps Piet, thanks for the tip, I am almost at the fork top nuts, but I just may give your tip a try re the fork oil, makes a huge amount of sense, thanks!
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Paul,

Use either your Mityvac hand pump (get one, if you haven't already, bloody useful for all manner of things!), or use a compressed air driven brake bleeder connected to the valve in the handlebar (need to remove the valve core first).  You only need a light vacuum to suck the oil from a vessel with the correct amount through a hose into the drain hole.  You do need to have the opposite drain plugged, otherwise you won't create a vacuum. 

Didn't attend all those H-D workshop seminars for nothin'. :D

piet
 
Took it for a squirt.....  :D  in Pats backyard, The Nongs.
Have to get back in the groove with the ole girl for the snowy,s run  8)

One for you Vince.... Fern central  :o
 

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Paul: Learned to do one Tube Fork at a time after my Breganzie did a nose dive and had to holler for someone to get her off me ;o)
 
sfcpiet said:
Use either your Mityvac hand pump (get one, if you haven't already, bloody useful for all manner of things!), or use a compressed air driven brake bleeder connected to the valve in the handlebar (need to remove the valve core first).
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Both bloody useful peices of kit and any half self respecting workshop should have one... just got to remind me where the hell it is in my shed  :o
 
Brett said:
Both bloody useful peices of kit and any half self respecting workshop should have one... just got to remind me where the hell it is in my shed  :o
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I have both a Mityvac and also a much larger compressed air driven vacuum tool, so I am good.... I even know where both tools are...... ;) Going to give Piet's tip a try, just for fun and to make sure it works for later use. In my case I am actually stripping the complete front end off the Harley to replace the steering head bearings, and going to strip both fork legs to give everything a good going over. Winter project, after all, and it is usually a bloody long winter.

Still dirty Harley fork oil dripping off the three Laverda's from my pressurized fork oil misadventure, bloody hell. Peeled both tires off the Harley wheels yesterday with a much larger borrowed bead breaker tool, this one  https://www.amazon.ca/Motorcycle-Portable-Kawasaki-Streetbike-DirtBike/dp/B0077T37GQ/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1478887873&sr=8-4&keywords=bead+breaker+tool  now going to buy one of my own, as I have some tires to change on the Laverda's this winter as well.

Paul LeClair
 
It's the calm before the storm. New Shorai battery is here and Greg Parish rocked again by getting some new grips and cables to me in record time. Will be ready for next week, it will feel like a very long wait. The
 
cbertozz said:
It's the calm before the storm. New Shorai battery is here and Greg Parish rocked again by getting some new grips and cables to me in record time. Will be ready for next week, it will feel like a very long wait. The
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Shoulda got a SSB LiPo.
 
Laverda SF said:
Really! Never heard of it - Perhaps my next Battery!

I'm in desperate need of a new battery next season.
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Shorai.com.au

Nice and light, but beware, keep it trickle charged, you need an extra cable for that and a Shorai charger (can't use an ordinary charger)
 
Can use a normal charger on the SSB. Last week I fireds up the GS BM after sitting idle for 6 months and it cranked over like it had been ridden everyday. Great batteries!
 
Put some shims under a couple of the clutch springs to even up the lift of the pressure plate.  New seal at the front of the primary case for the end of the crank shaft as the old one was dribbling a bit. 
 
Went back to the SFC engine.
Took the camchain tensionner off.
The nylon tensionner wheel has melted, partially unto the cam chain. The big wheel between the chain runs must have melted as well and all that molten nylon would be sufficient to explain the blocked engine, says he hopefully!
The SFC tensionner wheel differs from the standard 750 wheel in that it is needle roller mounted. If someone tries to sell you an SFC without a needle roller camchain tensionner wheel, it's surely a fake.  :o Quite a few of those about.

Took the calipers off the fork legs. They appear structurally intact though one of the fork legs and a disc carrier have partially melted.

Paul
 
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