BUT DOES SHE RUN?? MOTOGUZZI LE MANS Mk1 PART 9
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- Опубликовано: 21 май 2023
- #myrestoration #motorcycle #motoguzzi
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In part 9 - After some time this MotoGuzzi has been fully revived from a rusting wreck. You must always expect the worst and for this it did not dissappoint!
In this video you will see the trial and tribulations I go through to get the Motoguzzi Le Mans Mk1 started. Will the motoguzzi actually start……
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Beautiful work sir! I just acquired a 1997 California 1100i with 18,000 original miles, but it lived in a covered parking space too close to the beach. I live in Southern California. It has been unridden for at least a couple of years with a lot of corrosion to address. Miraculously the original paint is in remarkably good condition. Installed a fresh battery and fluids and she fired right up and is running better and better as I go through her. She will be a rolling restoration. These bikes are at their best when they are used! Starting to replace severely corroded fasteners with stainless steel where appropriate. I rode cross-country New York to Los Angeles decades ago on a 1978 850 T3. A great bike and great memories. Its great to be back in the Guzzi-verse. Going to keep this one. ❤
A mécanic repair, a technitian throw parts away and put a new one. Fabulous trip in mécanic world. Tanks alot. Great job. Genious.
Ah Merci Luc. I come from a place where we had no choice. The world will pay the price for the waste we don’t recycle. Restoration should mean restoration in my opinion. Merci!
Sorry to everyone but I don't have understand notting or very little, but is very very fascinating to watch and complicated, I wish I had learn this meccanial art in my younger age, you sir are a genius. All the best in your future projects.
She looks and sounds amazing. I cant wait to see the Norton. That silver paint job looks great.
Great to hear the Le Mans running.
She looks great.
I once owned a lemans mkIII. Beautiful bike but mine ran on dollars and not petrol. MG Lemon MKIII was mine sadly. Main issue was my heart over head purchase and previous owner's dreadful but nicely hidden mechanical skills!
What a cool bike. Thanks for saving and sharing a legend motorcycle. Hopefully we can see you take her out for a run on the road!
That sounds like a proper "Guzzi" running :) Congratulations! Fabulous restoration! Bike came up stunning! Love the red tone of the fairings!
Good to hear this beast running... it's looks and sounds fantastic! 👌🏼
I have a 1976 Mk 1b which i have had for over 40 years sitting in my garage doing nothing but collect dust. After watching this i have now started to plan to start to restore her. Thanks.
I love hearing that..
Absolutely brilliant watching it all come together Rob. Tremendous attention to detail and skill taking the bike apart and restoring each and every component . I don’t know how you can remember where everything goes. You are a master craftsman for sure👍🏻
You created a work of art for your client.
Anyone fortunate enough to be fit into your workflow and to be able to afford the results of your skills shouldn't be anything but happy.
Wow! Just wow!.
A master class on “analog” mechanics. Simply Brillant.
I still see them as one of motorcyclings most beautiful handling and looking bike though
Looking at your work and the complexity of the engineering I think it’s easier to be a heart surgeon - well done- you have great skills
Excellent result. All your tips helping me with my Le Mans resto, still at the painted frame stage, with P3 cam, and RAM clutch and a million other bits in boxes.
Having a modern V7, im really impressed with all the similar things that both motorcycles share, even though they're separated by almost 40 years. I really loved all your work on this bike, your "normal budget saving restoration" approach is very refreshing when everyone else is doing showroom restorations & modernization with no being careful with existing parts and just buying new ones! Great great great great x 1000 job!!!
Graci Stefano 🙏
Absolutely fabulous restoration
Thank you Stefano. You explained it correctly.
Lovely restoration.
You've the hands of a heart surgeon , and such a fantastic sound track to boot . Marvelous!!
Cheers bud. Nice to have a musician following!
Bravo! A beautiful bike, very well restored!
Guzzi teaching kittens to purr
I bought a 1000 SP2 new in 1985 - same logo as 5:44 - and still have it. I am very fond of it and never sell it. It is in top form, like yours. It is amazing how many similarities I can see. I have taken the engine off a couple times to rebuild the clutch and the gearbox. You are skilled in building parts from bare materials such as plastic and metal. I am missing such skills.
3:45 blinker seems to flash a bit too quickly
7:05 the carb floater cover must be bent in my bike as I do not manage to get rid of a small fuel leak at the base of the large nut you are tightening here. I have tried all sorts of seals and gaskets. My conclusion is that over the years the seat of the large nut is not flat anymore. I have not measured it yet.
Before you reversed the centrifugal masses (!) I just thought has he double checked the timing? ha ha!
Thank you for your input. Yes the indicator was switched to new. With a bit of measuring and adjusting you can get it to work but might still overflow when on the peg stand. Maybe fit a tight o ring?
Cheers 👋
The most beautiful bike ever made, one day I will have one lol 😂
You and me both!
Bought one new in 1977, watched Munroe Motors uncrate it. Best looking bike ever. Sold it with only 5k miles the same year to go to college. Certainly one I wish I'd kept.
…and I’ve got to give this one back to the client 😭
I have just found your channel by chance and wow! What incredible work and dedication 👏👏👌
This bike appears to have been painted a brighter red than my 78 Le Mans which had a slightly orange color. This is much nicer.
Beautiful job, I’ve enjoyed the whole series and really dig the boxy style of that bike. Looking forward to more Norton content!
Ta Matthew. The Guzzi is growing on me..but the Norton is a special one as it’s my own bike
Lovely restoration, handle bars angle looks insane 👍🏻😊
Yes they are. When I asked the original owner which he preferred to go long distance, the Guzzi or his Duc 916 he surprisingly said the 916 because of the narrow std bars on the Guzzi were extreme..
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Currenty having a fight with a Dellorto, only running on choke and revs. Stripped three times now, with new pilot jet, confirmed float height and holes clear. I know your pain
That sounds weird James. It’s as if the pilot jet needs a kick in the backside to start drawing. By accident it came to life after a few squirts of petrol into the back of the carb…good luck and thanks for chiming in 👍
Just a thought.
With some dellortos it is possible to insert the throttle slide 180 degrees out. I rotated mine and problem solved.
@@anthonyallsopp1474 no I don’t think so on these one because there are 2 slide pins to line up. Reading up it seems it just takes a few goes to get the air to move from upstream to downstream. A jet of fuel up the arse got it going.
Thanks for replies. Slide only goes one way. Symptoms are blocked jet, but squirts of carb cleaner all appear in correct places . Will recheck float height, maybe in a glass jar so i can visually watch somehow
@@TheJameswort maybe open the fuel air screw to encourage flow. When working dial it back?
I have those exhaust pipes on my Le Mans. I believe that they are made by Stucci but I’m not certain. Could be race pipes !
So funny to get this comment tonight…I was just thinking that very thing. What are those pipes?? They have a rasp to them..anyone else got the same guess? No branding anywhere. I was wondering if they weren’t on the bike from day one as the early mk1’s were still experimental. Comments please 🙏
La Franconi?
@@sprezzatura8755 No unfortunately
They offered a production race kit. Which included race pipes. @@MyRestoration1
BEAUTIFUL MOTORCYCLE. CAN YOU PROVIDE THE PAINT COLOR NUMBER?
Again I’m admiring your work. I’ve just start the renovation of a BMW R60/2 and your work inspire me, thanks
On an other subject I’m completely obsessed because I can’t remember who play and wich song we can ear when you’re cutting the tubes at the begin of the video. Could you help?
Thanks Henri. Good luck with your R60/2!
Supertramp! ❤️
Crime of century🤦♂️
Where's part 10 Regarding brake maintenance, as I said at the end of the part 9 that I want to watch
New video coming in 5 min!
@@MyRestoration1 Waiting.. You are a professor in your work 💪💪❤️
If the paint went of the startermotor because of the carburator leak you’ve kept the paint quality TOO close to original! 😄
Too right Marc..imagine how I felt..it’s painted again now that the petrol floods stopped. Cracker 👌🙏
Where's the customer reveal! 😊
He hasn’t seen it yet. The bike still needs Brake parts which are super delayed an MOT before he travels done from Liverpool but I’ll post it good or bad! 👍
@@MyRestoration1what an amazing journey! Can't wait!
Can you answer me this question? Why in the world will the budget not allow for a cylinder to be purchased? I mean that may not be a job I would take if the budget couldn't allow for certain things like that. I understand saving money and restoring what you can but the budget has to allow for some new parts
@@bonesworld7178 good question. Normally yes but if the sleeve and piston are well within tolerance why would you change it? The sleeve was honed and new rings fitted as they were out of spec (the ring gap was too large). It’s well within tolerance so need to spend limited budget when it can be spent elsewhere. BTW it sound beautiful and smooth. No smoke. I am starting to like this bike!
@@MyRestoration1 the rehab on the fins...wow. that was brutal. That was my only real issue with the cylinder
Wonderful engine. I had a steering wobble on a Le Mans so violent it threw me off the bike and that really ruined the Le Mans experience for me.
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