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

Dellortoman said:
Just went into the shed today with the intention re-shimming the one exhaust valve clearance on my Jota that had closed up, but it was a much easier job than expected. I managed to do it without removing the camshafts.
The ingenious procedure was to re-check the measurement and find that it was correct after all. I obviously mis-measured last time. Duh! Clearances hadn't changed in 10,000km.
Dunno how I got it so wrong the other day. I must have stuffed up converting from thou to mm. Maybe I should invest in a set of metric feeler gauges.
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Ditto Cam, tackled various jobs of late, once upon a time, able to be very confident the application of skill carried the success, now i find myself making basic errors discovered before problems arose, yet very sobering to see the work skill not able to be 100% all of the time, somewhat hit and miss afraid to admit. Not just me, trades folk i know in my age bracket having the same issue. At times not trusting themselves..... wince. j
 
iis_iis said:
Ditto Cam, tackled various jobs of late, once upon a time, able to be very confident the application of skill carried the success, now i find myself making basic errors discovered before problems arose, yet very sobering to see the work skill not able to be 100% all of the time, somewhat hit and miss afraid to admit. Not just me, trades folk i know in my age bracket having the same issue. At times not trusting themselves..... wince. j
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My orthoped explaining ageing skeletal issues said you see the wrinkles on the outside but they are on the inside too. Hmm, even in our brains!
 
Today I've been bleeding the rebuilt calipers on the RGA Sprint. I finally bought vacuum bleeding kit as the last time I bleed the P08 calipers on my Guzzi T3 Polizia it was a long winded job, and the Vacuum kit certainly does the trick. I've just got to bleed the rear caliper. One thing I have done to minimise air bleeding into the bleed nipple, I've used a couple of winds of PTFE tape around the threads of the bleed nipples. I'm hoping to roll the Sprint off the ramp in the next couple of days, to get the Guzzi on and get the new barrels & pistons fitted, along with their respective refurbished heads, as it's nearly time for 'ride to work season' which, for me is April to October and work is a 75 mile round trip.
 
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