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« Last post by faffi on Today at 02:43:03 PM »
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For the past 2000 miles or so, my beloved but not entirely undemanding E4 V75 TT has been perplexing me with an intermittent problem. Sometimes the Alert Service warning -- a.k.a. We Wouldn't Dream Of Telling You What's Actually Wrong warning -- comes on when I apply the front brakes. The symptoms are as follows.
1) It doesn't seem to happen when the brakes are cold.
2) There are no ABS warnings. That's an entirely different warning. That actually does tell you what's wrong.
3) I've cleaned the calipers, verified they aren't frozen, flushed the brake fluid, and sacrificed photographs of angry hamsters to Spickle, the Intermittent Failure God.
4) The brakes seem to work fine.
5) Gas mileage seems unchanged, with no sign the brakes could be dragging.
6) After the brakes have gotten hot during a long ride downhill, the Alert Service light may comes on when you apply the front brakes. The light stays on until you reset it by switching off the ignition.
7) After the brakes are hit and the problem has appeared, the bike doesn't have to be moving. It you switch the ignition back on, start the bike at idle, the bike idles with the Alert Service light off, but if you then apply the front brakes with the bike sitting still, the light may come on again.
8) The problem seems to go away after the brakes have cooled off during the freeway ride back home.
I'm going to pull the calipers off one more time to have a look, but I'm running out of ideas here...
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« Last post by faffi on Today at 02:05:57 PM »
 Thanks for explaining. Will continue to watch the developments 
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« Last post by Alfetta on Today at 01:42:46 PM »
Interesting carb placement. I'm interested to learn the reason behind!
Had one of these back when close to new.. Never liked the carb placement, always pissed gas on my shoes.. and since this is just a time killer project. I decided to let them piss on the cylinders. I have also always hated the "center wall" that this engine design used, so it's gone as well.. bike may end up being worth nothin' but that's ok... Funny thing is when i got this bike, i planned on doing as little as possible, then move to the big goose... but no... it's now a custom project of doom...
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« Last post by cliffrod on Today at 12:21:56 PM »
In early 94, I replaced the cylinders on my V7 Sport that was parked in 1980 with cylinders already peeling but without doing the crank, etc. I didn’t know. a couple years later, the entire engine had to be stripped to do the crank and everything related to damage from flaked chrome, plugged sludge trap, etc.
If they have magnetic pull and don’t look like they have sleeves, Those cylinders on your bike could be nikasil/nikasul replacement parts sold by Moto Guzzi. That’s what I have on mine. No markings of any kind. They look like plain stock original cylinders. I assume Guzzi likely offered such parts for bikes other than V7 Sports at the time(?) Do a video of how magnetic they are while it’s apart if you don’t replace them to help with the sale.
Realistically, once you start, it will be an all-or-nothing situation. If not, it will need to be stripped down again to finish & redo the job when thing go south because they will. Probably best to sell it as is with a clear explanation. The market is soft now.
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« Last post by Don G on Today at 12:16:29 PM »
Oil level in trans ok? Try shifting it between ranges maybe the shift fork is loaded? DonG
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« Last post by brider on Today at 12:10:33 PM »
Also, re Roy's follow-up of my "SI #2" mention, I call it "SI #2" because it is NOT the condition of the original SI I was attempting to solve with my momentary switch, it was this other condition I learned about in this thread discussion: https://wildguzzi.com/forum/index.php?topic=122792.0I already did the original SI fix on this Norge. Now it has a momentary remote starter button installed.
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« Last post by brider on Today at 11:59:56 AM »
Thanks, all.
For the bulbs, I just went to NAPA and bought their house brand of brightest-white H3 replacements. On first try last night during the aiming procedure, they're a big improvement over what was in there. For as little as I drive at night, these should be fine. Tried an LED conversion kit in my kid's car and I learned the hard way about having incompatible reflectors. They were awful and a waste of $$.
Learned something: The Norge headlight assembly is sealed and the reflector mechanisms are not removeable/replaceable! The replacement assembly (ebay used) I have mounted SOMEHOW had a dis-connected left-side-lo-beam vertical adjustment screw. The screw anchor became un-anchored from the reflector, so that the reflector was flopped down to almost the full-"down" position, and no amount of screwing the adjustment screw had any effect on the vertical beam position. Looking at my crashed assembly that I kept (it was just the clear plastic fairing over the lenses that was cracked), I could see inside how the adjustment screw was anchored to the reflector, and I could see no way on god's green earth how it could have become un-attached in a sealed unit. I was figuring on swapping out my (crashed) good reflector unit for my mysteriously disconnected replacement unit, but that's when I discovered there is no way of cleanly opening up the unit to do the swap. Grrrrr!
So, since the reflector will still adjust horizontally, and will pivot floppily in the vertical direction, I figured out a way to hold it in one position very Rube-Goldberg-like. Guess it doesn't matter the vintage, any Guzzi may require a barnyard-fix at some point.
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With the Helite (like Bill wears) you just change the CO2 cartridge. They run around 50 bucks IIRC. They are 100CC or so-much larger than a standard.
Assuming one hasn't punctured the vest, swap out spent for new and on your way. About 10 min.
Almost impossible to activate it by forgetting to unclip. It takes quite a pull to activate. When we had demos at our riding club I really had to use some body english and a very hard tug to get the vest to go off.
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I hate selling anything, thats why the Herd is at 3 cars, 1 truck, 1 motorhome, and 7 motorcycles, or is it 8? And too many guns.
I should sell a couple of the motorcycles, and am strongly considering selling the 1200 Sport and Baby Breva along with the XS750 Triple. The Sport and Breva are 100% ready to go any day time or place, the Yamaha needs to be brought back to life as it has been in stasis for 10+ years.
I've sold/given cars to a few people the last few years but it was between family and friends, not the cesspool that is Craigslist FB Marketplace, or various Classifieds.
When I sold the MGX-21, the process was easy, it sold in a week, had a buyer who gave asking price without question. He arrived with trailer in tow, I deposited the check electronically, got confirmation from the bank, and he giddily took it for a test ride and we loaded it on his trailer. He almost dumped it on the test ride 2X, and then a couple more while loading. I was recovering from Hip replacement surgery so wasn't much help.
Anyhoooooo...... 3 months later I get a text message from someone claiming to be his son. They claimed he had died of a heart attack 2 weeks after buying and wanted me to buy it back.......... My response was obviously an immediate NO, but I offered to re-post my ad if the bike was still in the same shape. We could use the same wording and pictures. I just needed a good e-mail address and their asking price.
They came back with a bit more pressure, tried guilt, but quickly discovered my grandmother and maybe daughters were the only people capable. I never heard back........... Of course I searched the obituaries, but never saw one. Such a strange world..............
So................ to save me from the hassle, and embarrassment of a potential bad ad, if anyone is interested in a near perfect 1200 Sport or Breva 750, shoot me a PM 
Guilt and/or pressure would have fallen on deaf ears.
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