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Messages - Laverda Dave
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« on: Today at 03:52:14 PM »
The winning bike, anyone's on here?
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« on: Today at 03:50:17 PM »
I've just got home from the Kempton Bike Show and autojumble. I'd like to say I had a really good ride over on the VFR but riding through the London 'burbs' is painful even on a bike, so many idiots and morons in cars. I actually had one guy next to me at a set of red lights who decided he'd had enough of waitng and just decided to go despite all the traffic coming around the roundabout!
The show was pretty good, the CR Rotary racer was there and was run up on the rollers, what a sound as was the Jawa 2 valve speedway bike.
The Best in Show was won by a Honda Phil Read Replica with a very nice back story. There was a 90cc twin Yamaha that was highly comended as well as a CB72/77?
I was hoping to get some 10/40 oil for Ratty but nothing available, plenty of 20/50 or straight 30/40/50! In order not to feel I had a wasted trip I bought a can of electrical contact cleaner instead!
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« on: Today at 03:32:53 PM »
I used the kit from Pyramid Parts and whilst it did fit there was only 1.5 turns on the castelated nut. I contact Pyramid and they requested photos and these were duly sent with the measurements. Pyramid admitted the kit was not suitable for the 400/4 despite their listing stating it was and gave me my money back. This was the same kit many have used on here. Pyramid agreed with my findings that it could be dangerous.
I bought a set of caged ball bearings in the end and they fitted perfectly using a 2mm shim on the lower yoke.
I have contacted Pyramid a couple of times since to request an update and I also voluntered to try the stepped bearing they were proposing but they told me they are currently speaking to several restorers of these machines to obtain a solution. Needless to say I had a pig of a job to get the taper races out of my newly powder coated frame!
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« on: May 10, 2024, 02:34:33 PM »
I think the back story qualifies it for an Out & About Ted👍
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« on: May 09, 2024, 11:07:55 PM »
Looking very good Ted, you've been busy👍
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« on: May 09, 2024, 09:58:22 PM »
I've had a good few 400/4 carbs apart and I've never seen anything like that before! Maybe the PO had the tank off at some time to do something else and dropped that part down there and you know the agro of dropping something down there and a) seeing where it actually went and b) trying to fish it out! BUT....the shape of the indent at one end does look like the lifter but if it is someone has cut the end off and why?
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« on: May 09, 2024, 09:53:35 PM »
Great to see the blue sky backdrop Johnny. Bike looks stunning 👍
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« on: May 09, 2024, 09:49:45 PM »
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« on: May 09, 2024, 09:42:35 PM »
It doesn't look long ke a carb part Roo, well not OEM anyway but does it have a thread on it? I'm just thinking maybe someone at some stage has taken the lifter spindle out and to do that you have to drill the locating dowl out. Of course it then has to be replaced! I've done this a couple of times in the past and used either a roll pin ground to length or in the case of Ratty I used a grub screw turned down on the lathe at the end to give a suitable locating 'register' into the spindle groove (as as previously suggested by Ken to someone else). Anyway, could it be that, is the spindle dowl missing?
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« on: May 08, 2024, 08:45:53 AM »
Thanks Dave, have sent them a message.
They will give you a price Steve based on the photos of the parts you send them. However, if you take the parts there yourself without accepting the on-line/emailed quote they can usually do a bit of a deal. That's how I did mine.
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« on: May 07, 2024, 05:51:37 PM »
I have just used Ashford Chroming located in Crayford S.E. London after my chromer who I have used for 30+ years lost his environmenal licence (unless he was willing to pay thousands for new treatment tanks). Ashford Chroming were absolutely brilliant. The quality of their work is beyond excellent as are their timescales, I got all my stuff back within a month.
They are however expensive but you get what you pay for with chrome. They didn't like the repair on my rear mudguard, didn't think I'd smoothed it down enough (I'd spent hours on it!) so they tweaked it in their in-house panel beating shop.
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« on: May 06, 2024, 08:57:04 PM »
I did it with the VFR. I didn't even know until I pulled out from the forecourt onto the main road and it died. I pushed it the two miles home and drained 15ltrs of diesel into three jerry cans and gave them to my neighbour for his van. I had to replace the fuel filter in order to be able to start the bike.
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« on: May 05, 2024, 03:37:05 PM »
Could a crank be damaged if the bike is dropped at high speed on the left (alternator) end? How many bikes did we see back in the day with chamfered alternator cases!
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« on: May 05, 2024, 03:28:20 PM »
Thank you Ash👍.
Once I've put them into the battery box and attached the breather hoses to the plastic manifold below I can replace the plastic inner mudguard and the chrome half guard and get the wheel in👍.
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« on: May 04, 2024, 06:36:24 PM »
I remember all of that Alan, I was working in the building opposite the day it happened (30TSC). I also remember something falling off that same building some time later during its construction and going through the glass roof of the building below (the 'fingernail' as it was called), the tube station that was also under construction at the time (and I had just left the site about an hour beforehand). H&S is something that has to be drilled into people, there is always the misapprehension it will happen to someone else. H&S on London Underground was always first class from training to PPE to inspections and not being afraid to stop the job.
Back to the thread, Dom, Dave is right, it still won't be big enough, you'll just use it as an excuse to buy another bike!
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