Hi Paul, I’m the owner of this site, and I moved your post here. Dave tends to call things based on what he sees, not knowing things that happen behind the scenes. Thanks for attempting to search the topic.
Not directed at you, but to all reading this... Per the paragraph in red above, far too often people want to be spoon fed information without even trying to look, and they are often unappreciative asshats on top of it. We can thank social media channels in large.
We can also put to rest the fact that all Guzzis are world bikes since Euro-4, meaning almost all bikes delivered have the same equipment, I have been told. Unless this has been previously removed by someone else, this and the Secondary Air Supply (SAS) will be in every 1400 delivered globally, starting ~2016 or so.
Hope you’ll add your info to our Registry, and also hope to see you post often.
Thanks Todd for your considered reply, it’s most appreciated.
My bike is in the registry as I’ve owned it and been an avid user of this wonderful site for about 7 weeks. Your site has been invaluable to me. Thank you.
My bike’s a 5000 mile March 2014 UK Cali custom. It definitely doesn’t have the air pump. I know this because of a tragic series of events that ensued after my post was relocated
I thought the post had mysteriously vanished and because it wasn’t in the original place, I didn’t get any email responses. So despite the amazing help this thread would have been, I have just done the job blind, taking photos along the way to be able to help you guys, assuming I was some sort of pioneer!
Luckily, reading the thread now as instructed by Kiwi Dave, I didn’t make too many mistakes. My tank didn’t want to move very far rearward, I got about 20mm and it didn’t want to lift much at the back. I pulled it up hard against my better judgement and supported it using some wood. Then I managed what can only be described as gynaecology for about 2 hours until the damned connector snapped onto the air temp sensor.
After brief celebrations, I reversed everything and it’s back together. All I can add to this thread is that having a hand/vacuum pump to suck the gas from the tank was good because it’s amazing how much 8 litres of gas weighs! And I removed the injector cover on the right hand side because my fingers needed access. (They also could have used breaking to allow the flexibility needed!).
I didn’t do this, but two other things struck me. Why do Guzzi use Allen bolts with such small socket sizes!?! You have a 6mm bolt that takes a really small Allen key, so had they been tight or corroded in place, the keyway would have rounded out. And also the plenum chamber was covered in white aluminium oxide, it’s not important but it looked as if it was off a twenty year old bike.
Anyway I’ve done it and now, having rediscovered my post, I have found out how to do it. That’s the way things are in the new-normal.
Best regards from someone sleepless in the UK.
