RGS1000SFC Engine Returns to Frame

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Well, here I go again.  Engine going back into the frame.....hopefully, the last time for a longgggg while!

Anything I might be missing....please chime in.  :D

This is my one-man way of putting the big lump in the frame.  Build a little table the same height as the frame, or a tad higher, slide the sucker over onto the jack platform under the frame.  At least it worked last time.

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Where's your Martha Stewart labor force? Looking good-keep it up. You're making me realize how lazy I've become with my '76 project.
 
Hi Scott,

looking good. just one thing regarding the silencer hangers: they are the wrong way around (schould point down, not up) and they should be black instead of silver/gray. also not sure if they should not be mounted on the other side of the rubber?!?
 
mar said:
Often wondered, wouldn't it be better to lay the motor on it's side and drop the frame around it?
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That's what I did the first time when everything wasn't attached; wheels, etc.  So, this time I slid it in from the right side using the little table idea.  Worked slick.  45 minute job.
 
Don't put it on flebay, it is simply requesting a FULL Service from you... I told you to dismantel everything before starting. Didn't you know I meant the starter motor, not the engine itself?!?! :o

just kidding... :-)

Honestly: be glad it happens now. I had mine broken when I wanted to go for a ride with some friends. Pushed the bike out of the garage (with a freshly charged battery...), had all the gear already on and pushed the button - nothing...  :-[ that was quite embarrassing...

its a draw back, but once all works, be sure your wife will have a hard time beating the grin out of your face...  ;)
 
Laverdalothar said:
Don't put it on flebay, it is simply requesting a FULL Service from you... I told you to dismantel everything before starting. Didn't you know I meant the starter motor, not the engine itself?!?! :o

just kidding... :-)

Honestly: be glad it happens now. I had mine broken when I wanted to go for a ride with some friends. Pushed the bike out of the garage (with a freshly charged battery...), had all the gear already on and pushed the button - nothing...  :-[ that was quite embarrassing...

its a draw back, but once all works, be sure your wife will have a hard time beating the grin out of your face...  ;)

His wife will have left him long before he has it fixed. :D

                                                          Dave
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Laverdalothar said:
Don't put it on flebay, it is simply requesting a FULL Service from you... I told you to dismantel everything before starting. Didn't you know I meant the starter motor, not the engine itself?!?! :o

just kidding... :-)

Honestly: be glad it happens now. I had mine broken when I wanted to go for a ride with some friends. Pushed the bike out of the garage (with a freshly charged battery...), had all the gear already on and pushed the button - nothing...  :-[ that was quite embarrassing...

its a draw back, but once all works, be sure your wife will have a hard time beating the grin out of your face...  ;)
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I didn't mean it about Fleabay, guys.  As soon as I hit the <Return> key I was sorry I had.  Old bikes do this. If you don't like it, get something modern that everyone else has.

Starter taken apart and greased a bit on bushes, cleaned out the rust on the insides good, made sure all (+) things not touching (-) things and starter works fine. 

Next stop, oil squirting out onto camshafts....I hope.

Oh, and after my second one, I've given up on the wife idea.....unless I find one that knows what a Laverda is and wants to work on one!  :o
 
Rockitdoc said:
Oh, and after my second one, I've given up on the wife idea.....unless I find one that knows what a Laverda is and wants to work on one!  :o
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That's an expensive prospect... they get all sorts of ideas

says the man with a pair of VHB24s in the ultrasonic for his wife's moneypit.
 
Rockitdoc said:
Oh, and after my second one, I've given up on the wife idea.....unless I find one that knows what a Laverda is and wants to work on one!  :o
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well - then I guess you need to move to a different country...

The only two women in the world that I know that love to work on Laverdas are both (now) living in Australia...
 
Laverdalothar said:
well - then I guess you need to move to a different country...

The only two women in the world that I know that love to work on Laverdas are both (now) living in Australia...
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Make that 3 women in Australia Lothar. My wife loves my Laverda almost as much as I do and was more than willing to give me a hand with re-assembly.
 
great to hear that Davo. Mine at least tolerates my hobby... Oh - wait, she actually gave me the money for buying my first 1000 SFC!!  ;) But working on the bikes? No freaking way...
 
mine did ride with me on the SFC 2 or 3 times and one time on the 750. She loved the SF(0) for the look and sound of it and wasn't to happy when I sold it. ("you should have sold all the others, this one was a beauty! And that sound is soooo great...")

Right she was... if it had been a SF2, I would have kept it. but with the brakes of the SF0, the engine that wasn't to responsive, the way to hard rear suspension and the way to soft front, it simply wasn't "mine"...
 
Davo said:
Make that 3 women in Australia Lothar. My wife loves my Laverda almost as much as I do and was more than willing to give me a hand with re-assembly.
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Sounds like I need to go back to Australia.  If there's three.....there could be more.  Be fun to look, anyway.  8)
 
Laverdalothar said:
mine did ride with me on the SFC 2 or 3 times and one time on the 750. She loved the SF(0) for the look and sound of it and wasn't to happy when I sold it. ("you should have sold all the others, this one was a beauty! And that sound is soooo great...")
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Interesting. Wifey, with her penchant for Hondas and the occasional Guzzi, absolutely loves the looks and sound our SF0. Other Laverdas just get a shrug.

Laverdalothar said:
Right she was... if it had been a SF2, I would have kept it. but with the brakes of the SF0, the engine that wasn't to responsive, the way to hard rear suspension and the way to soft front, it simply wasn't "mine"...
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Well, reckon you got a "Friday Afternoon" SF0 there.

H.
 
Hi Harry,

naa - that is constructive issues I am talking about, not setup. The Cerianis are like a piece of Steel (even with me havy lump on the seat and put to the softest spring-preload). the front fork is flexing under braking (even when the bike is on the center stand, the whole front wheel moves forward and backward with the hole fork when engine is running. Have seen that on several Laverdas with 35mm forks...). The front brake takes to much force to really do the job while the rear one is over-sensitive (little push on the pedal means a blocking (new BT45) rear tire).

I had 2-3 situations where I almost crahsed the bike due to the brakes and decided that I prefer to live without it rather than to die with it.

I have ridden several 750's in the past, they were all the same. not their fault maybe but I was simply to reluctant to adjust my riding style to the bikes capabilities.

regarding the engine: it was one of the smoothest engines I have ever ridden on a 750, however, it was running out of steam above 4.500 revs. Below it pulled quite nicely, but I sold it also before it was really run-in (had around 1.700km after rebuilt), so I don't know if it was just a midrange issue. I was told by someone who knows... that the small head engines simply are that way and that - though they do rev up to over 6.000 - they do not do it freely. My triples run very different to that, which I simply prefer over the character of that engine.

However, the look and sound of it was unforgettable. If I had the money to spend and the place to store it, I would maybe buy it back from the current owner, who also rides it very rarely as it also doesn't fit his expectations...
 
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