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

henrywillms said:
I have spent several days scraping old antifouling paint  off the bottom of my boat and getting ready to repaint it. A truly miserable job.
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The pleasures of boat ownership eh?

I've heard it said that boating is equivalent to standing under a cold shower and tearing up $100 bills. But it's actually worse than that. You have to scrape, sand and paint the shower bay at the same time.
 
Fitted new chain and sprockets and went for a ride ... :)

(Another day the bike did not explode  :D)

 

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Lee87H said:
Got my 3CL Jarota  running today,28yrs of sitting and she's up and running,sounds fantastic,very nice throttle response from the 36mm Dellorto's, brakes are next,then maiden voyage.
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Congrats. Quite a job after 28 years.
Was it stored correctly?
Paul
 
Thanks Paul, I don't think the previous owner meant it to sit for that long but he did drain all the fluids and it was in a heated basement up on a work stand, so it could have been much worse
 
28 years...wonder if that is a record for a laid up Laverda. Good on you, glad no major issues from being dormant. I am putting my Corsa back together after a couple of months and trying to remember how it all goes back together!!
 
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I started on the external temporary fix to my leaking GT tank this weekend. I rouged up the previous repair site down to the metal, cleaned with alcohol and then dried and added that Araldite steel epoxy. Very easy to smear out, this is the area I will sand smooth and then run a leak test for a few days before I paint the same area. Someday this will need to be addressed permanently, but not during riding season. It will look as good or better than it did before the leak started. Im going to give the epoxy a few more days to cure before sanding it down. Theres no reason to go beyond this area of the tank for now. And I'm digging my new Eaton LED work light. Bright as daylight over my bench now.

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Just came back from my first proper 100 mile ride on the GT 750. No more leaking tank. Looks ok in the overcast daylight and a piece of the former repair on the other side flaked off, so I will need to spray that now.  >: (Looks like blonde colored bondo, so no more worries about this being anything close to original paint.) I just noticed that when I was checking the tach drive seal, I forgot that's weeping, I need a new O ring for it. The speedo cable popped out, seems to be a trend with my old bikes, no worries just screwed it back in. I'm not sure why but the chain tensioner bolt is weeping more than I care for it to, what is the solve for that?

Riding impressions are the bike is in very fine tune running the Witt. Definitely want that for my 750 now. (Yes I have all the original equipment set aside.) Its a huge gas tank, It sounds amazing and turns heads, and I love the suspension, its very pleasant turning in and I am on some really crappy tires at the moment. I am again dumbfounded that all of my old bikes have comfortable seats, way more comfortable than any factory seat made today. I really love riding it. Its definitely unique all around.
 
Fitted a new battery to POP today. The old one had suffered recently as I discovered my so-called smart charger had been spewing out anywhere from 6 to 20V randomly and continuously so it's now in the bin. new Optimate 3 on order. Access to the battery is hindered by it living under the monoshock. This means it needs axle stands under the footrests, remove rear mudguard, electrical side plates behind the sidepanels, then the monoshock, and only then can I get at the battery.
All hunky dory now.



 
Not today, but last week I put a volt meter on my RGS. The bike was off the road from late last year to early April. I had it apart to have the head-stock reinforced.

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After I put it back together, the battery wasn?t charging. While the bike was running, I put a multi-meter on the battery and it would not move off 12.2V. The alternator was putting out current, and it was alright before I pulled the bike apart, so I undid the nut for the regulator earth and made sure I had a good earth to the frame. I thought it should be right now.

Started it up, and gave it a rev and it still read 12.2V, wouldn?t budge. The bike nearly conked out (it was cold) so I gave the throttle a blip, then gave it a good old revving, it back fired, and it started charging. The multi-meter shot up to around 14V and revving the motor caused the volts to fluctuate up and down, as you would expect.

I thought that was totally weird, and I was about to go for a ride for the day with mates and thought it would be good to know if my battery was charging or not.

The next week, I bought one of these off eBay.

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I removed the display from the circuit board and soldered wires to the legs of the display.

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I mangled one of the spare rectangle sections in the instrument panel to fit the display.

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Re-soldered the circuit board to the display.

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I used a bit of plastic as a mounting bracket. I used masking tape to hold the circuit board to the
bracket and took power from the circuit board.

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I ended up wrapping the circuit board in masking tape and foil, and running a power lead to source power from the back of the ignition key (at the wiring loom below the steering stem) and earth at the frame. Before doing this the volt meter display blanked out when the motor was revved.

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I haven?t ridden it with the volt meter fitted yet because I?d had a few beers by the time I?d finished the job last Sunday afternoon. I?ll take it for a ride tomorrow morning and see what it does.
 
Nice job Chappo, threw me a bit, was wondering why you would put a voltmeter to a bare frame :D
 
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