Have been busy -- with riding Norge to Kentucky, etc.
v-- thus have not had time to respond to some of your recent inquiries. OTOH, my anecdotal musings are less help (if not worse
) than the useful stuff others here contribute.
I only chime in now to say that I have an extraordinary collection of metric fasteners acquired over time such that if you cannot source locally or on the web, let me know and I'll see if I can find the right one.
Oh, WRT the alternator cover in particular, I am about to remove mine.
You may not have noticed in my statement, above, "riding Norge to Kentucky, etc.," that I did not say "and back." The "etc." was that I had to go back and get it last weekend and tow it home. "Dr. John" (the guy in the second pic is not THE Dr. John, but a great friend who agreed to a 1200-mile r/t in my little POS Toyota pickup, with no radio, A/C/ nutt'n except 227K miles!
) came along.
Anyway, I think my alternator belt went south. Whatever happened, it brought my grand little trip to a doleful end, and that happened, of course, in the middle of BFE, Kentucky ... a somewhat redundant label.
That is especially disturbing as, while I need to check records, I think I swapped that out only 20K ago. That means, I suppose, that I did something wrong in thew way of tension or the like. Grrrrr.
Off now to ride the Stornello and drown my self pity in back-road grins.
Bill