Cali 3: in search of the lost gears.

[ghiribizzo]

Leave the O-ring where it was.
Get the new spring and drop it over the selector shaft and "cross it's fingers".
Throw it together and stop worrying...

Have you found the ball bearing for the speedo drive? If you've lost it or it wasn't there - go get one out a bike shop that will fit.

The fun bit is when you put the cover on and you have to get all those sticky-out bits in their respective holes all at the same time. Hehehe.

 

[the civil one]

The reluctant mechanic.

Your Makin the besta Work . The rear cover on the box , always looked like the Front door of "Pandoras Box" god only knows whats in
there .. Fair play .

 

[Deleted account 211025001]

Can't believe I've missed this thread............

............but I'm full of admiration Og

The last time I had a Guzzi box apart I gave up and Cookie kindly came to the rescue

Go Og, go!!!!!!

Andres

 

[Ogmios]

Thanks for the encouragement guys.
I was thinking all would be going "oh, just man up and get on with it" or similar.
Maybe some are.
Feck 'em!
This is a big job to me. Everythings relative.

Balls.
bearing, singular - for speedo drive. No, if it was ever there (and i'm beginning to think/hope it wasn't) it's long since vanished. I'll get one somewhere.
As for getting the cover on with all bits poking out the right places - i can do a fair octopus impression so am confident enough with that.

Cleaning up the brakes - rear done, was not bad at all.
Front left (linked to rear) pistons seized - this will be fun. But just determination needed - not daunting.
... like a gearbox.

Even the nagging feeling that it's going too well is just vaguely in the background. Feckit -i'll not look for trouble - it knows where i am already.

 

[ghiribizzo]

Go Ogmios, go...

 

[Mr K]

Thanks for the encouragement guys.
I was thinking all would be going "oh, just man up and get on with it" or similar.
Maybe some are.
Feck 'em!
This is a big job to me. Everythings relative.

Balls.
bearing, singular - for speedo drive. No, if it was ever there (and i'm beginning to think/hope it wasn't) it's long since vanished. I'll get one somewhere.
As for getting the cover on with all bits poking out the right places - i can do a fair octopus impression so am confident enough with that.

Cleaning up the brakes - rear done, was not bad at all.
Front left (linked to rear) pistons seized - this will be fun. But just determination needed - not daunting.
... like a gearbox.

Even the nagging feeling that it's going too well is just vaguely in the background. Feckit -i'll not look for trouble - it knows where i am already.

Go baby!

I got stressed putting the 3rd set of front discs on me 12. Gearboxes are witchcraft.

 

[ghiribizzo]

...Gearboxes are witchcraft.

Once, back in the day, a certain authorised dealer now defunct had managed to snap the clutch arm off a Cali 1100i that they'd for service. That was bad enough but when it arrived in their van at my Service 'shop, they'd taken out the back end and removed the cover with the box in place.
Ahhh...

 

[Ogmios]

ghiribizzo, Mr K,

I appreciate the encouragement!
Spent the last 'stint' at it just getting frustrated;
New return spring is all that's (new) going in the 'box.
Put back cover of 'box on, held with 4 of 10 bolts, so i can just check i'm getting all gears and a neutral.

took 3 hands. had up to 6 gears (should be 5) and a selection of neutrals in a variety of places.

Three times i took the back of the 'box off again to see WTF was going on in there.
Net result = nothing, apart from slight misalignment of gear shift / pawls and selector drum 'cut outs'.
put it back together. same results.
I think it will be fine when properly assembled and has oil in there. I can fine tune if needed with the eccentric adjuster on the back of the 'box later.

New seals for brake calipers;
half done. had a lot of hassle shifting one piston. Finally got it to shift with perverse use of a b.f.o. syringe of fluid on the bleed nipple - sucking and a blowing.
Jeezuz! - i've never seen such muck come out of a brake system! Some of it, the consistency and colour of milk?!
Can only put it down to odd plumbing - it's the front disc that's linked to the rear and probably - no, Definitely never been cleared so thoroughly. (only myself to blame there then).

Anyhow,
enough F.U.D. Factor!
(Fear Uncertainty and Doubt)
it goes back in the frame tomorrow!
Lack of understanding of this Witchcraft as Chris rightly calls it has slowed me down.
No more! I Want This Up And Running!

Nighty night.
~~
Og

 

[ghiribizzo]

Leave that eccentric adjuster alone. Consider yersel' telt!

 

[Ogmios]

Eppur Si Muove!

Well,
it is done.
Phew!

Got it back together the other day.
Fired up first stab of the button.
Engines good. gearbox is good (for a Guzzi).
Took Her for a test run - i've to go to Waterford this weekend for the MAG AGM and really want to be on Her for this.

Electrics checked and i've a couple of dead bulbs / wires to suss out.
Suspension is feckin awful - but i'd be stiff if i'd sat in the garden for 18 months without moving too.
All in all i am a very happy bunny. I do love Nellie* - i know She's an old agricultural beast, but now more than before i appreciate Her.
So much grin for so little.
Thanks folks for all the help and encouragement - it really helped.
'Especially Jay (Dr. Farkoff) for the regular kicks up me jaxie and Ghiribizzo for patient and wise directions.

Lastly - a definite and massive Thank You to the long suffering and understanding Mrs Og for not only the help but the fact She actually knows Her stuff, my stuff and Bike stuff.
~~~
Og the amateur.

*Why's my Bike called Nellie?
coz it handles like a baby elephant with a caffiene addiction and the ridiculous handlebars that used to be on it - one metre wide and like a pair of elephants ears!

 

[Deleted account 211025001]

Respect for getting it done young man

Og's back on a Guzzi - yaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!

Andres

 

[Oldrat]

Thanks for the education Og. Good luck m8y, long may your Guzzi reign.

 

[Ogmios]

The Epilogue!

Warn yiz now - this was written with the aid of various painkillers - i 'popped' me back earlier, have resorted to the heavy stoof - and am a bit out of it. liable to waffle somewhat or simply not make sense. ... actually that probably wont make my post any different from 'normal'.

Bollox to it - stop reading now if it bothers you. (oh look - there's the codeine kicking in )

Some old drama series, many years ago on telly, always had an epilogue at the end - Telling you how it all settled up.
Here's mine.

Some things i have learnt;
Even when warned (Thanks Ghiribizzo ) to check that dainty little chrome breather on the crankcase is free and clear to move its plain steel ball bearing up and down - check it AGAIN!For in a matter of a couple of weeks of non use, the plain steel ball WILL oxidize just enough to jam it solid and allow no passage of pressure to vent its spleen like vapours to the outside world!
Thus the oily pressure is left but two options to exit.
Either via the seal on the front of the crank - towards the electrics.
Or rearward ... on to the clutch plate.
Guess which way it went?
Of course - on to the clutch plate.
Once i'd worked this out, the cure was easy - clean and lightly grease the offender and hope to clutch plate would recover.
It has. Works grand now. Phew! Lucky or wot?
So, the best maintenance now is ride the bugger.

Worked well ... for a while.
Then All-Of-A-Sudden!
Commuting home one night, stopped at local shop, returned to Bike, key in, hit the button and...
"clickClickClick".
Fuckit - flat battery?! Just like that?
Hmm. Whipped out my handy spare emergency lighting battery (12V. 19A sealed yoke i just happen to have) and home made jump leads and clipped up and hit the button again - expecting to at least get home on it and look at it tomorrow.
Nope. all i get is "ClickClickClick".
Bump started it ... eventually ... using 2nd gear and lightning reflexes.

O.K.
So, having done all the basic checks like you'd do, on the starter (i presume - coz it's comparable to an 1100/1150GS) for earths, solenoid, connections, brushes, commutator etc. and having checked the loom as far as i can - i am just about to hook up jump leads to the K100 + Guzzi and suss more about the quality of the battery itself, by starting it, or attempting to, with the aid of the K.

Still with me? - i'm losing track meself.
Then in a chance conversation with Dr. Farkoff (blessed be his name ) it is pointed out to me that it's quite possible that if that little 'idiot light' for the battery on the 'dash' of the Bike isn't working - as i just happened to mention to him, then it's possible the battery wont charge.
All for the want of a functioning connection on an idiot light!?
The battery and all the rest of it might be fine and fully functioning.
And i needn't have pissed about with the starter motor.
At all.

<--- i like this smiley.

... I'll sort it soon- just not right now.
She'll be Grand - i know.
I've got a taste back for it now and i wont stop til i can go back to using it often and for allsorts <--- seems about the right smiley for me!
~~
Nighty night.

 

[ELIMINATOR]

Any updates?

 

[Ogmios]

Jeezus! i must've been out of my face when i wrote that last post.
Eliminator,
Sorry - short answer is nothing to report, as i've not had a chance to get at it.
I've to get some new bulb holders - they're an odd size/shape and not available at my usual local source. Of course .
Then see if it IS the battery that's fecked.
Hope to do this soon.

i miss my Guzzi fix!

 

[ghiribizzo]

Any more procrastination Og and I'll be over in the holidays...

 

[DrFarkoff]

Any more procrastination Og and I'll be over in the holidays...

I shall meet you and give you a size 11 boot that you may usher towards his posterior in an effort to elicit progress of some sort !

 

[Ogmios]

Bleedin' charmers the pair of ye!
Right - to give you something to do
where can i get some of these yokes?
Oh - it's meant to have two spade connections, not the one, hence the need to replace.

 

[Aidan1150]

If it's a T10 bulb Marc then hopefully this page will be of help. There's even a seller in Ireland which might be handy.

HTH

 

[Ogmios]

Aidan,
Thanks! I'll take a good look later on.