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Agostini timing gear
guzzigray:
Hi. Would anyone have an Agostini alloy oil pump timing gear they would like to sell ?
Regards
jacksonracingcomau:
--- Quote from: guzzigray on January 04, 2015, 11:27:42 AM ---Hi. Would anyone have an Agostini alloy oil pump timing gear they would like to sell ?
Regards
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Can't help you Andrew, but in light of the other thread I won't bother posting in
Anyone with complete set of Ago straight cut gears they want to sell for fear of "roperising"?
Thanks to George Hoxie on here I rescued a dormant set (and he got a pair of my rooskin gloves, this offer stands too)
Pics of fitting in my luddite thread
Performing faultlessly, of course, but I don't need to convince others, no dog in fight etc, just send em my way, get them out of your life.
Agostini straight cut only, not OE Daytona or other cock ups of which there have been many (Aus made in 80's were grenades).
MH
guzzigray:
An explanation: I recently bought a Centauro bottom end and it came with stock timing gears (steel crank gear and alloy cam and oil pump gears. After seeing that the stock oil pump gears can perhaps fail I figured the Agostini item might be a better option. They will go in a race engine so I'm not concerned about dwarf or longevity 'issues'.
jacksonracingcomau:
--- Quote from: guzzigray on January 04, 2015, 08:19:59 PM ---An explanation: I recently bought a Centauro bottom end and it came with stock timing gears (steel crank gear and alloy cam and oil pump gears. After seeing that the stock oil pump gears can perhaps fail I figured the Agostini item might be a better option. They will go in a race engine so I'm not concerned about dwarf or longevity 'issues'.
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Remember there is bushed oil pump not needle bearings, worth fitting proper one IMHO, OE gear def suss too, they all crack in same place, so Ago one should solve it, permanently.
Concern about dwarves in another thread I think, some kind of fetish, vaguely related to timing gear failure maybe.
Longevity more important in racebike, failure ruins your weekend but I think your answer is safe, I'd do it but prefer all Ago, as proven by every Guzzi racer since 1975 ish, inc Wittner, of course.
guzzigray:
--- Quote from: jacksonracingcomau on January 04, 2015, 08:45:12 PM ---
Remember there is bushed oil pump not needle bearings, worth fitting proper one IMHO, OE gear def suss too, they all crack in same place, so Ago one should solve it, permanently.
Concern about dwarves in another thread I think, some kind of fetish, vaguely related to timing gear failure maybe.
Longevity more important in racebike, failure ruins your weekend but I think your answer is safe, I'd do it but prefer all Ago, as proven by every Guzzi racer since 1975 ish, inc Wittner, of course.
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Oops. Swarf not Dwarf. :). By longevity I mean that the race engine may see 2,000 mikes in it's lifetime. Alloy timing gears will last that long.
I have a set of steel Caruso gears to go into an A motor but that's another story. Thanks for your imput Martin.
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