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

Andy J said:
The recently acquired Alto Performance 750 Formula race bike is under going a little bit of surgery. The result of 10-15 years of inactivity. The in tank fuel hose has been reduced to extremely sticky goo and blocked up the pump and probably rendered the fuel tank unusable.
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Eew yucky…. My ZX7R has an external fuel pump which is so much easier to play with
 
Having done two Zane fuel pumps with rotting internal fuel lines I'd have to say it's one of the most absurd design features I've seen on a bike. Big deal, so it's nice and tidy, but no matter how much the bike is ridden, those lines are eventually going to fuk up. No thought whatsoever to the future. How hard would it have been to design them with an external fuel pump FFS?!

You might be able to find some liquid agent or an acid that will soften and clean that crap, Andy. Or put the whole effing tank in a furnace and burn it out.
 
There is supposed to be a fuel-resistant hose available, operative word RESISTANT. Could you use a braided line, even if they're not completely made of steel
 
Fitted my new spoked wheel to the front end today.
Why did Laverda design 2 different spacer lengths between spoked and cast hubs?
 

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The Sock said:
Your spacer seems, from your second picture, to be of a significantly smaller diameter than the OEM on mine, Russ. I think it should bear on the outer race of the wheel bearing.

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Just for installation I made one out of an old pipe fitting just to see that everything lined up. Have ordered the real part and hopefully it should be here by next week 😆
 
Not a particularly good finish to the day with Peter Hickey binning it good style at Kerrowmoar in this evening’s practice, but it sounds like he will live.
It hadn’t started out too brilliant either with the recently reacquired 750 Formula having to take a trip home in the van of shame. A leaky oil line had already caused one ride to be cut short, but on this occasion it wet itself at Kirk Michael filling station. Hopefully it’s just a leaky pipe or possibly the common problem of a split in the header tank.
 

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Andy J said:
The recently acquired Alto Performance 750 Formula race bike is under going a little bit of surgery. The result of 10-15 years of inactivity. The in tank fuel hose has been reduced to extremely sticky goo and blocked up the pump and probably rendered the fuel tank unusable.
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Andy, wasn’t the Alto Performance bike raced with bio fuel towards the end of their exploits? That could explain the mess inside the tank..?

Marnix
 
piranha-bro2 said:
Having done two Zane fuel pumps with rotting internal fuel lines I'd have to say it's one of the most absurd design features I've seen on a bike. Big deal, so it's nice and tidy, but no matter how much the bike is ridden, those lines are eventually going to fuk up. No thought whatsoever to the future. How hard would it have been to design them with an external fuel pump FFS?!

You might be able to find some liquid agent or an acid that will soften and clean that crap, Andy. Or put the whole effing tank in a furnace and burn it out.
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.. IT IS THE most absurd design .. 🙂

by chance an alternative solution/improvement piece of kit would have been developed by a Zanè Guru to externalize that f**kin' fuel pump and filter ??
 
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