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curium wrote: Ahh, thanks for clearing that up. Cheers -- Dan L (Oldbloke) My Bike 2000 Honda CB500 M'boy's Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified) BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26
When are we going to get a buyers guide to old Moto Guzzis? I want a go. Actually a few years ago Bike did a series dismantling 20K mile jap bikes to show the wear. Surprisingly there wasn't any. If they want to do a this is what bike's innards look like when they've been thrashed for 100K plus come and do my Guzzi. Or this what a gearbox looks like when the fucking soft owner realises he hasn't changed its oil for four years, or at least can't remember or has any record of it. Safe to say what was in there came out pretty quick, fortunately the geary bits stayed in there.
It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the <shrug> Nothing much to worry about, iwt. Look at the high-mileage car gearboxes that never get an oil change, indeed these days a gearbox oil change isn't even catered for on a lot of cars, there being no drainplug at all. -- Dave GS 850 x2 / SE 6a SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3 FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10 Get rid of your SOC/SOB here http://www.sparesorrepair.co.uk/
Looking at the state the oil in the bevel-drive box in my K100 can get into over 10k miles I do wonder how modern boxes survive for 1-200k miles. I suppose they are less stressed, use better oil, have more of it and some provision for cooling it.
The key point here is the use of the words "modern", "Moto Guzzi" and "BMW". I've seen less foul pondwater with better lubricating properties than the Lucifer's semen that was drained from my gearbox.
It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the Sounds like you're getting water ingress. Is it a whitish greeny slime? Smells like... umm...fucked if I remember, but it's quite disgusting. -- Dave GS 850 x2 / SE 6a SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3 FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10 Get rid of your SOC/SOB here http://www.sparesorrepair.co.uk/
It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the Well, it's just a gearbox and shouldn't really be all that much harder on the oil than many others. Do Guzzi recommend yearly changes or thereabouts? Next time you do a change it'd be worthwhile adding some molyslip - one of the few additives that actually seems to work. -- Dave GS 850 x2 / SE 6a SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3 FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10 Get rid of your SOC/SOB here http://www.sparesorrepair.co.uk/
Thanks for the help, folks. Am now the owner of said machine. It's a little bit different from the CG.... Downpipes shiny and sparkly, Predator end can fine, a tiny bit of corrosion on the springs. Very clean (but some serious commuting should sort that out), garaged by all 3 previous owners. Paid £1900, which I think was a fair price. Oh, and it's red.
