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A new member fromFlanders
By: Vusette Date: December 5, 2019, 10:13 am
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Hello,
I am a 61 year old Guzzi fan from Flanders in Belgium. My Nuovo
Falcone is an ex-carabinieri Falcone from 1970. I bought it in
2002 from a BMW-rider who used it only for riding in the rain.
He didn't want his BMW's to get dirty. The Falcone was his dirty
bike! When I bought it, the NF had 10050 km's on the counter.
Now I passed the 65000 km mark.
I continued to ride it in unrestored condition. Apart from
normal maintenance, I changed the clutch for a second hand one,
I also gave it a longer gearing with a 33 rear pinion. I also
regrounded the valves. The rims were replaced with aluminium
ones and new spokes. As the paint was getting very poor, last
year I decided to give it al full cosmetic make over. I chose to
give it, what I call, the V7 special look. My friend rides a
white V7 special from 1970 and I always liked the colours. I am
very pleased with the paintjob and the finished bike looks
great. However, and this is the bad news, since the rebuild the
gearbox is getting worse and worse. It is almost impossible to
shift into third gear without it jumping out again. As Flanders
is really flat, for the moment I shift twice from second to
fourth! A NF can cope with this, but of course this is only a
temporary method. This winter I will remove and split the
engine. I suspect the problem will be found with worn gear dogs!
I will keep you informed.
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Re: A new member fromFlanders
By: Dave Date: December 6, 2019, 2:35 am
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Welcome to our little club :)
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Re: A new member from Flanders
By: banquo Date: December 13, 2019, 12:55 pm
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[quote author=Vusette link=topic=421.msg2731#msg2731
date=1575562402]
I am a 61 year old Guzzi fan from Flanders in Belgium. My Nuovo
Falcone is an ex-carabinieri Falcone from 1970. I bought it in
2002 from a BMW-rider who used it only for riding in the rain.
He didn't want his BMW's to get dirty. The Falcone was his dirty
bike! When I bought it, the NF had 10050 km's on the counter.
Now I passed the 65000 km mark.
I continued to ride it in unrestored condition. Apart from
normal maintenance, I changed the clutch for a second hand one,
I also gave it a longer gearing with a 33 rear pinion. I also
regrounded the valves. The rims were replaced with aluminium
ones and new spokes. As the paint was getting very poor, last
year I decided to give it al full cosmetic make over. I chose to
give it, what I call, the V7 special look. My friend rides a
white V7 special from 1970 and I always liked the colours. I am
very pleased with the paintjob and the finished bike looks
great. However, and this is the bad news, since the rebuild the
gearbox is getting worse and worse. It is almost impossible to
shift into third gear without it jumping out again. As Flanders
is really flat, for the moment I shift twice from second to
fourth! A NF can cope with this, but of course this is only a
temporary method. This winter I will remove and split the
engine. I suspect the problem will be found with worn gear dogs!
I will keep you informed.
[/quote]
Welcome Vusette; there's not much traffic on here these days I'm
sorry to say, but I hope you will find some useful material on
here, and we look forward to hearing of your gearbox
investigations. I hope they go well, and that your problems are
not too large or expensive!
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Re: A new member fromFlanders
By: Vusette Date: December 14, 2019, 3:38 am
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The engine has been stripped almost completely now. What remains
is the crankcase with the gearbox and crancshaft inside of it.
Flywheel, primary transmission and clutch have all been removed.
I find it easier to remove all these parts with the engine still
in the frame. That way the engine becomes much lighter to remove
from the frame. Cylinder and piston are also removed. I was
pleased to see that de piston (still the standard 88mm size) is
in perfect shape. I will however fit new rings. also I noted
some pitting on the tappets. I suppose this are the same tappets
as fitted in the later V2 engines? The camshaft seems ok
however.
Tomorrow I will open the crankcase. What horrors will I find
there.
Philip
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Re: A new member fromFlanders
By: banquo Date: December 14, 2019, 3:55 am
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Morning Philip; sounds like you're making good progress.
I have never had to enter the crankcase of mine (yet) so it's
interesting to hear your approach.
My tappets also were pitted on the top surface when I repaired
the top end, and I replaced them at that time.
I'm not sure if they are the same size as the V7.
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Re: A new member fromFlanders
By: Lone Wolf Date: January 16, 2020, 8:07 pm
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[quote author=Vusette link=topic=421.msg2731#msg2731
date=1575562402]
Hello,
I am a 61 year old Guzzi fan from Flanders in Belgium. My Nuovo
Falcone is an ex-carabinieri Falcone from 1970.
[/quote]
Wotcha.
I too am a 61 year old Guzzi fan - only I'm from the Midlands in
the UK.
At least once a year a few of our motorcycle club members head
over to Ypres for a week or so in the Summer. This year we hope
to be there from June 19th. We will be using our usual camp
site
HTML http://www.jeugdstadion.be/
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Re: A new member fromFlanders
By: randall Date: January 17, 2020, 6:55 am
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hartelijke welkom Vusette,
Welcome Vusette;
Randall
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Re: A new member fromFlanders
By: Vusette Date: January 17, 2020, 7:31 am
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In the meantime the engine has been stripped completely.
What was wrong? Some pinions in the box had quite worn dogs. I
replaced 4 pinions. 2 of them I bought from Shubert and the
other 2 from Escher.
All rather expensive and I'm sure that replacing only the two
most worn items would have solved the problem.
Opening the engine however takes some time and work and so I
decided to replace as much as possible while everything was on
the bench.
Hopefully this will save me from having to start all over again
in a few years!
The crankshaft is ok, also the piston and bore look like brand
new. As a matter of precaution I will also fit new piston rings.
The wear in the pinions dogs was definitely caused by the bad
shimming in the factory. The 3th and 4th gear dogs wear only in
contact for 50% of their hight.
It took some time and probably closing and separating the
crankcase halves more than 10 times but now I'm pleased with teh
result.
I also took a look at the valves. They had already been replaced
once, some 40000 km's ago.
The exhaust guide was a loose fit in the head.
As I know the bad reputation of the original valves I decided to
fit 2 new standard valves. Th exhaust guide will be made from
new to give it a better fit in the head.
The inlet guide will also be replaced but with a standard new
one.
As I write this, the crankcase now has been closed definitely.
I'ts ready to refit it in the frame. The rest of the parts
(clutch, distribution, piston, cyilinder etc..) will be fitted
while the engine is in the frame.
Too bad I can't add some pictures here! I have made pictures of
all the various steps during the reasambly of my engine !
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Re: A new member fromFlanders
By: banquo Date: January 17, 2020, 4:17 pm
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Well done Vusette; that sounds like an excellent job.
You can't add pictures here, but if you upload to Flickr or
similar, you can link to them here?
Would be good to see!
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