Slide rods

Paul Marx

Paul Marx

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The French haven't answered and neither have the British.
They've both had 24 hours to come up with nothing.

As mentioned concerning getting needle jets out, I'm renovating the carb bank on my 3C.
I remembered that I had some rods in my pile of bits, ostensibly for lifting the slides in a triple in lieu of the cables in there at the moment.
It's NOS Laverda parts bought when a local dealer sold me his stock a long time ago.

What were these fitted to?
Is there any advantage in using them over the cables? More synch stability maybe?

Paul
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AfaIk, these were fitted to RGS onwards. More reliable than the previous cables. Failure of the cables is very rare, but it does happen, usually in the middle of Austria, ie, a long way from home, on a Sunday afternoon.

I'd prefer them over cables any time. Need some extra care when fitting, the rod bends easily if the drum nipple isn't properly located in the crank arm.

piet
 
sfcpiet said:
AfaIk, these were fitted to RGS onwards. More reliable than the previous cables. Failure of the cables is very rare, but it does happen, usually in the middle of Austria, ie, a long way from home, on a Sunday afternoon.

I'd prefer them over cables any time. Need some extra care when fitting, the rod bends easily if the drum nipple isn't properly located in the crank arm.

piet
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Thank you Piet.
Rods it'll be.

Paul
 
Had them in my RGS. The disadvantage of the rods is that with the tiny ball at the lower end tends to work it’s way through the slide. A cable with the traditional nipple has more contact area, so doesn’t have that problem.

Marnix
 
Of course, your cables / rods and right wrist will all benefit from reducing the slide-closing spring forces.

Wrist health is to be taken seriously. It effects other hobbies :)
 
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Paul Marx said:
That's a few stories of broken cables, well three.
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You can add another 2 from Tasmania. One was mine and the other belonged to a mate, Russ. Coincidentally, on both bikes it was the nipple coming off the bottom end of the cable in the centre carb. The only good thing in that scenario is that the carb slide slams shut before the cable nipple drops out of the bottom of the slide, so the engine doesn't swallow the nipple.

With Russ' bike, at least it was in his shed when it busted. But mine was about 30 km from home on the way back from the east coast of Tassie.

I cobbled together a temporary repair with a bit of tie wire. Carbs were a bit out of balance but it got me home with all 3 cylinders working. I always carry a small coil of tie wire in the tool kit. It has a heap of uses other than wiring sump plugs.

Those shitty little cables are one of the reasons I switched to Mikunis on my Jota. The other reason was fuel economy.
 
Dellortoman said:
You can add another 2 from Tasmania. One was mine and the other belonged to a mate, Russ. Coincidentally, on both bikes it was the nipple coming off the bottom end of the cable in the centre carb. The only good thing in that scenario is that the carb slide slams shut before the cable nipple drops out of the bottom of the slide, so the engine doesn't swallow the nipple.

With Russ' bike, at least it was in his shed when it busted. But mine was about 30 km from home on the way back from the east coast of Tassie.

I cobbled together a temporary repair with a bit of tie wire. Carbs were a bit out of balance but it got me home with all 3 cylinders working. I always carry a small coil of tie wire in the tool kit. It has a heap of uses other than wiring sump plugs.

Those shitty little cables are one of the reasons I switched to Mikunis on my Jota. The other reason was fuel economy.
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That might also explain why the dealer who's stock I bought stocked those rods.

Paul
 
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