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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: guzzigray on January 04, 2015, 11:27:42 AM
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Hi. Would anyone have an Agostini alloy oil pump timing gear they would like to sell ?
Regards
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Hi. Would anyone have an Agostini alloy oil pump timing gear they would like to sell ?
Regards
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
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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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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'.
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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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.
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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Dunno about the Ago gears but the early Hi-Cam tooth form is some really weird cut that nobody else has used since prior to WWII. I assume you know the tooth form is identical?
Pete
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Dunno about the Ago gears but the early Hi-Cam tooth form is some really weird cut that nobody else has used since prior to WWII. I assume you know the tooth form is identical?
Pete
Hi Pete. The gear I'm looking for is straight cut.
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Hi Pete. The gear I'm looking for is straight cut.
Yes I realise that, it's not the angle of the gear it's the tooth form.
Pete
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I replaced the gear drive system on my beast with a chain drive since I was paranoid about the exploding gear. I still have the old set available for a reasonable offer.
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Yes I realise that, it's not the angle of the gear it's the tooth form.
Pete
Ah, got it. I have no idea if they are the same. Thanks for the info.
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Yes I realise that, it's not the angle of the gear it's the tooth form.
Pete
oh my god yes... I wouldn't mix and match gears from the same maker, let alone different ones. there is an incredible science to gear tooth profile. Even straight.
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Well my cunning plan has hit a snag :-\. Removed the oil pump gear today and there is a taper on the oil pump shaft so apart from any pitch issues a straight shaft oil pump Ago gear wouldn't work.
Time for Plan B.
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Well my cunning plan has hit a snag :-\. Removed the oil pump gear today and there is a taper on the oil pump shaft so apart from any pitch issues a straight shaft oil pump Ago gear wouldn't work.
Time for Plan B.
This ?
http://www.giovannimoto.com/8573.html?galleryid=8820&itemid=25469&returnpageid=8641
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This ?
http://www.giovannimoto.com/8573.html?galleryid=8820&itemid=25469&returnpageid=8641
That could be the answer….. thank you.
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That's one of Joe Caruso's efforts
Won't be cheap and it'll probably be steel as I know Joe had a mod to replace 2 of the alloy gears with steel on the 4V motors and a Dass oil pump.
PM me and I'll give you his email of you want, I just don't like posting it up on an open forum. He's very knowledgeable and very honest he will not sell you something you don't need or won't fit
He lives in England
John
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Sean Fader can bush the oil pump for you.
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That's one of Joe Caruso's efforts
Won't be cheap and it'll probably be steel as I know Joe had a mod to replace 2 of the alloy gears with steel on the 4V motors and a Dass oil pump.
PM me and I'll give you his email of you want, I just don't like posting it up on an open forum. He's very knowledgeable and very honest he will not sell you something you don't need or won't fit
He lives in England
John
Hi John. I have Joe's email as I have a set of his steel gears. Thank you for the thought. I love your Sfida btw. I've always wanted one :)
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Sean Fader can bush the oil pump for you.
I'll give him a call. Thank you.
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I'll give him a call. Thank you.
Well thank you. I had always wanted one too and just got VERY lucky. The build/restore/sacralige took me a while I used to be an engineer, well that was my title, I was never that sure. ::)
I'm building another for my sins, hope I'm still young enough to ride it at the pace of progress.
John