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

Finally got my rear brake bled ............ epic bullshit. Anyhow, went to test rear brake light, as I had to fit a new hydraulic switch ............. bat flattery  ::)

Now I have to find a mini leak to earth, blaming alternator again (without knowing for sure). Will check the circuit again tonight.
 
Spent all morning trying to find a miniscule leak to earth ........ can?t find it for the life of me. Fitted battery isolator/anti theft switch.

Raised needles to second lowest notch and took bike for a test ride. Resulting in midrange flat spot almost gone, but runs much better with choke slightly on, right through the low, mid and higher rev ranges. Good enough to get it on a dyno now.

New foot rests and controls are so much more comfortable, and, using the right hand gear change ...... not as bad as I thought, dabbed rear brake a couple of times, wanting to drop down a gear, I suppose I?ll get the hang of it.

It?s still loud. It attracts attention while riding and while I was at the at fuel station filling tank and tyres, I was swamped with people wanting to know about it.

All up, a good day playing Laverda.  :D
 
Dellortoman said:
Possibly the RR. Un-plug it and see if the leak disappears.

Your battery isolator will fix it in the meantime.
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Was my thought too Cam. Oddly, I put my metre on it, zilch. The tried it again, a few minutes later, bingo a couple of .ohms ....... test again...... zilch.  ???
 
chrisk said:
Was my thought too Cam. Oddly, I put my metre on it, zilch. The tried it again, a few minutes later, bingo a couple of .ohms ....... test again...... zilch.  ???
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Better to test for current rather than ohms. With the ignition off, disconnect the big red wire  from the RR to the battery positive terminal and put your meter in series between them to complete the circuit. Select the highest Amp scale (for safety) and if you get no reading, switch to lower scales until you get a reading. If you don't get anything on the lowest milliamp scale, it's OK. If the RR had more than one +12V connection (some have a voltage sense wire) check that too.

Note: I've seen quite a few multimeters that don't work on the current scale, which usually means someone has overloaded it and blown a fuse. A zero reading doesn't necessarily mean zero current.

It's a good idea to check that your meter is working properly by testing it on something like a globe. A 21W indicator globe should read about 1.75A, which is fine to test the 10A scale. But most multimeters have separate protection for the 10A scale and the milliamp scales, so it's a good idea to test both. You can test the mA scale with a 3W dash lamp which should draw around 250mA
 
Well today I took my 77 Jota out for her maiden ride.
I bought this particular bike late last year as it was advertised as an opportunity to wreck or restore project, well there was no way I would like to see this bike wrecked by me or anybody so I took a punt and followed through with a period appropriate restoration.
This bike had been exposed to a few years of sea spray from the Queensland coast and had really deteriorated badly.
The owner told me he had spent heaps on the engine so I hoped that the poor quality plugs in the ports had worked in keeping any moisture and salt out of the engine, from what I saw in the cases I did remove from the engine there was no visible deterioration.
Anyway today I had the engine running for a few hours and apart from a slightly noisy clutch that engine is a ripper not quite a zippy as my Mikuni fuelled 81 Jota but still a delightfully strong 1970s bike with stacks of character and personality.   
 

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About time you had a series 1 Jota  :P well done looks good just dont mention the stripe on the tank shhh mums the word :D
 
Nice work Maurice that is a great looking bike and to bring it back from the abyss is a huge credit to you.
Love it. :)
 
Maurice looks great in that livery, 

Little early spin on the 3C
 

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mauricejota7604 said:
Shaun I can see those 750s sitting at home a lot more since that beautiful 3C has entered your stable.
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ha ha Off to France on the GT gotta be fair, though i might mix up the white bikes :D :D
 
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