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Yeah, that's what they did. All the small parts came yesterday. The threaded rod was shipped from Georgia. Naturally, they didn't tell me that I was going to get hosed. ;D
They let you know when an order will have to ship from two warehouses, but you have to know the lingo. If it's a phone order, they say something like "That can ship today from our Atlanta warehouse." for example, instead of just "That can ship today." If you don't catch it and cancel that item, you're getting two shipments. With a web order, it's in the order list in the "ships" column as two extra words "from Atlanta" under "today.". I got surprised with multiple shipments a couple times until I figured it out.Interestingly, they charge only actual shipping cost, no handling charges or other fees, so they didn't profit from your misfortune.
Chuck ,I still need an engine for my drone project , just saying..... ::)
Strange strange. Just did get the threaded rod.. nice. Rolled threads black oxided. Thought I'd ride the Lario down to the shop in case I get time to work on it tomorrow. The left cylinder wouldn't fire a lick. :o Thought, WTF? Plug wire must be loose, either at the cap or coil. Putt putted it down on the other cylinder. Checked for spark. Gots it. Tested the plug on my spark plug tester. It's fine. I would think if the stupid white float had sunk, it would be super rich, but would at least fire. <scratching head> I suppose a valve *could* be stuck open, but that's a stretch.. It was running fine when I rode it up to the Guzzi Garage (tm) a couple of days or so ago.Oh, well. Maybe I'l *make* time to look at it tomorrow. ;D
You talking cash?? ;D
Oh, I know what it is before even going out to the shop. Woke up in the middle of the night and thought, "the throttle cable has come unhooked from the slide." That happened one time before a few thousand miles ago when Unkept came back from a ride saying it wasn't very powerful. ;D I just put it down to careless workmanship on the guy that put it together. ~; There's always been too much slack in the throttle assembly. Need to look at that, and find out why.
Isn't it funny how your subconscious figures things out every time. Something to be said for taking a break and coming back to it....glad it's an easy fix!
Yeah, I've always said I do my best work in bed.. ;D :BEER:
That wasn't it. (!!) You could have knocked me down with a feather, as the old saying goes. Thought WTF???? Ok, start at square one. Did a leak down. 78/80. Cylinders don't get any better than that. ;-T Yes, the valves are opening and closing. ;D Checked plug again with my plug tester. Ok. Hmmmm. Loosened the float bowl. Yep, there's fuel in it. Hmmmmm again. Checked spark again.. got spark.. but maybe it looks a little weird. Right side looks a little weird, too.. but it ran. Hmmmm again. Ran out of time. We're getting ready to blast off to SoCal, and I have some Honeydo's to do.So.I've had the Dyna coils on there for a very few miles. They're the green 3 ohm ones. Read on here it's a good idea to put a ballast resistor on those, so I did. It was 2.3 ohms on my meter. It was getting warm with the cranking I did. I'm out of time, but is the ballast resistor the problem?
Torque challenge ride one. Full throttle roll on at 60 mph, in top gear. 2010 V7 Classic Quattro Valvole. 26 degrees C. 22 seconds from 60 to 120. 124 MPH top speed reached. 7200 rpm. Whoo Haa!!
I've had the Dyna coils on there for a very few miles. They're the green 3 ohm ones. Read on here it's a good idea to put a ballast resistor on those, so I did. It was 2.3 ohms on my meter. It was getting warm with the cranking I did. I'm out of time, but is the ballast resistor the problem?
It's easy enough to wire around the resistors for a test, but I can't imagine the resistors are keeping a cylinder from firing unless one of them has failed open. I ran 1Ω resistors with my Dyna green coils for quite a while with no ill effects. Since the heat from the resistors is outside of the coils, a 3Ω coil with a 1Ω resistor produces about the same coil heat as a 5Ω coil. Actually slightly less.
this is what I was using. Bad idea?
I've been running Mouser's secondary ignition with 3 ohm Dynas with no resistor for years.
Thanks for that. I've been running Mouser's secondary ignition with 3 ohm Dynas with no resistor for years.. I think I'll give it a go on the Lario.
I don't see why it wouldn't work. Only problem with the green coils I've seen was when the rider left the ignition switch on with engine not running for a few minutes. Coil cracks open then.
What is that?
The primary ignition is a magneto, driven off the end of the crank. The secondary ignition is a Dyna S, using a special housing, and driven off the stock VW distributer drive. Little 10 mm scooter plugs opposite the standard VW plugs give true dual ignition.