What did you do with your GRiSO today?

guzziownr wrote:

The '75 Eldo is hors de combat for maintenance so I was on the GRiSO running errands about town.  At the Quick Chek for gas a neighbor saunters over for a look:

"Pretty sporty for a Guzzi!"

I informed him that the company has since come to their senses and stopped making them.  

That is really funny.

Wait.

No, it's not.  

Bill

Put air in GRiSO's tyres. Then road the Racer.

After i got the damn oil filter to break loose on Friday evening, I topped the GRiSO up with oil and charged up the battery. Got to ride the GRiSO for the first time in months to the monthly Guzzi Breakfast meeting.

Here's Jin (Fresh Egg) rolling up on his GRiSO:

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And here's Brock (Landman) and Pedro (Pedro...) awaiting a tasty breakfast.

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Brock and I had just dropped off his GRiSO at Moto International where he was to get a "flat tappet inspection" and a replacement for a wonky dash unit...

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At only 41 years of age, Brock seems to be winning the battle of the beards...

[quote="Steak"]After i got the damn oil filter to break loose .

You aren't kidding !

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It shouldn't be this hard to remove !  I'm still trying to get beyond the PO 's mistakes

Once you're at that point it's much easier to just drop the sump off. It's only 18 X 6mm bolts then yo can get at the filter baseplate with a cold chisel.

WTF? Did he use a gorilla with a breaker bar to 'nip' ( ) the filter up to 100Nm?

Bugger !
I thought I couldn't take the sump off with the filter on !
Oh well !

Yeah the PO really torqued it on. Just welded up a tool to get to the holes in the baseplate.

The aim is to get to the sump spacer gasket. Any advice on taking off the spacer ? The side stand looks like it's mounted to the spacer ' that's obstructed by the LH exhaust header.....And so it goes.

Took it out for my FIRST proper ride on it
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My GRiSO had to stay home as Esther and Jellybean and I rode together in Jelly's sidecar rig, but Steak went with us on his Diavolo Nero to check out Steven Ono's (sono on the Ghetto) new Poke restaurant in Edmonds, 20 miles north of Seattle. What a delicious treat!

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If you're not familiar with poke, pronounced poh-kay, check it out here:

ONO POKE

It was a delicious treat, and a great way to celebrate Pete's 58th!

Happy Birthday Street!

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Pete needs to eat more poke and drink less beer!

Mid pipe finally shit itself to a point where it has to come off for welding, broken thru 360 all round, hope it's repairable ....
anyone know roughly the price for a new one ?
have a safe day

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Eventually took the sump off & got this mangled filter off.

A simple step missed that created all the problems: the sealing gasket was clean & dry !

Spent the weekend with this lot, trying to ignore the Hipster tent, eh Simmo :-)

and 9 other GRiSO Owners.

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Horrible experience today: self-made lift-table collapsed under the weight of GRiSO. GRiSO fell sideways on a concrete block that had no good reason being there. Results: big dent in LH header, but even worse: LH manifold snapped straight off near hose.  F*ck!  How stupid can I be?  

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Ordered a new manifold. Anybody knows if it is a simple bolt-off and bolt-on repair? Or a bit more complicated?  Let's hope not more internal damage is done...

Gack!

Is it the manifold itself that is smashed or just the rubber mangled? As for a header? I'm pretty sure I have several good ones. Find out what one would cost and halve it and add postage and it's yours.

Pete.

It is the edge of the manifold which is inside the rubber hose, that came off the main part of the manifold: see red arrow in above picture.

A new header is ridiculously expensive in this part of the woods: close to CA$ 500, so even if halved I prefer to live with the dent (as long as it doesn't have any major impact on engine performance...).  But I really appreciate the offer, Pete!!

bioman wrote:

Horrible experience today: self-made lift-table collapsed under the weight of GRiSO. GRiSO fell sideways on a concrete block that had no good reason being there. Results: big dent in LH header, but even worse: LH manifold snapped straight off near hose.  F*ck!  How stupid can I be?  

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Ordered a new manifold. Anybody knows if it is a simple bolt-off and bolt-on repair? Or a bit more complicated?  Let's hope not more internal damage is done...

Ugh.

I am so capable of doing that.

Best wishes for a full recovery to GRiSO ... and your wallet and ego!

Bill

After that knock I would be checking TB sync etc after re-assembly.

Sorry to hear & a big lesson to us all.......guessing there'll be a 2nd hand 'self-built' bike stand going into the marketplace fairly soon

PS: what was the fault on the stand ?

ghezzi wrote:

After that knock I would be checking TB sync etc after re-assembly.

Yes, good point. I was planning to do that.

paulbrice wrote:

PS: what was the fault on the stand ?

I am almost too embarrassed to tell.  

OK: it was made of wood.  A couple of 2x6 legs that held up a multiplex platform.  The entire contraption was not badly done but for some reason 1 of the 2x6 pillars split so the bike then dived to 1 corner, and then bike + stand toppled.  I think the screws must have split the wood.

Anyway: will not use it again. I will save up for a proper quality lift-table - made from metal   .

Ouch!