Centauro

[ELIMINATOR]

Who has one? Who's had one? Tell me more, tell me more.................. like does he have

They seem to be, perhaps challenging?

Are there oil pump problems? Spares issues, as it was not a long / popular production run.

Gutsibits sell an improved oil pump. ENA30401??????????

 

[ELIMINATOR]

Hmm, put me off this bike!. Taken from the Centauro Owners clubShocked Quite a lot of comments about the oil pump, the replacement parts were over £400 and not an easy job to replace.

The Caruso gears and Däs oil pump are direct replacements for the originals, although the labor hours for disassembly and reassembly make replacement a non-trivial job.

The parts are now installed in my engine. I've only ridden a few miles with them, but so far everything seems great: very quiet in operation and the bike is running well.

Interestingly, the OEM pump and gears removed from my 18,000 mile engine looked just fine... Tight clearances in the pump and no visible issues with the aluminum gears. However, given that the severity of the problems that these parts can give, I'm very happy to have steel gears and the upgraded pump in the engine. The aluminum oil pump gears do seem to break eventually. Some theorize that the gear failures are caused by the shaft misalignment that comes with a worn pump.

The old cam belts also looked fine - they were last replaced 12 years ago and looked new when replaced. I have four bikes with belt driven cams so their calendar life interests me a lot.

PS Edit: further inspection showed wear on the original aluminum timing gear teeth, so I think it was a good thing to replace both aluminum gears.

 

[Richard A]

Would that setup be common to all the OHC engines, I wonder? I go through cycles of wanting a Daytona RS... and then not. Probably my two Tontis will see me out and they are somehow 'purer', though I bet those Daytona motors can spin up well, especially the Raceco ones.

Generally re. the Centauro: They are odd things, aren't they? Quite a styling departure for Guzzi, given that everything before had addressed the bike's function fairly directly, be it sports bike, roadster, cruiser or enduro. The Centauro seems to have been the first 'lifestyle' bike aka 'one to be seen on, rather than enjoy riding any distance'. The first thought I had on seeing one was 'why the OHC engine (albeit detuned), when it's not a real sports bike?' Would the punters really notice the difference between that and the pushrod block. Maybe the thinking was that the 'muscle bike' should be seen to have the top of the range power plant, also to justify a price premium.

You can probably tell I'm not about to shell out for one, but an interesting piece of Guzzi history none the less.

 

[cookie]

i rode one once upon a time. out for a ride with a bloke who owned a shop full of them, he wanted to ride my V7 cali, so we swapped bikes for a bit.

i remember it being more powerful than i was expecting and that it had a funny riding position.

a precursor to the griso, i reckon.

 

[DrFarkoff]

I loved the one I was riding till the front wheel bearing collapsed and spat me on the road like a bag of schite!

Still it was a superb grunty well sorted bike apart from Cheap wheel bearings

Which in honesty may have been changed by some one previously???