Hudriwudri
Tuned and Synch'ed
hi there,
as im currently still (lifetime project LOL :lol: ) in the process of working on my Rnd cyl. tonti guzzi im trying to eliminate the frame lower rails as a measure for a lil less weight, better routing possibilities for the exhaust as well as looks (since im pondering on the idea of also using the later cam cover and perhaps cutting the front frame struts as well).
Anyways after i milled myself a decent 8mm torqueplate i noticed that without load my u-joint seems to touch (makes es a slight touching noise) the kardanhousing as im using quite long 350mm konis as those gave me back then a more responsive handling along with a lowered fork.
My question is "can" one without any greater danger, and knowing one should change with such long rear shocks the u-joint accordingly often, shim the torqueplate in order to line up the joint again, or is it a semi stupid idea??
I saw on some of the pics of racebikes (i.e. motobox guzzi) that they some of them also seem to have quite long rear shocks, nevertheless im hesitant to just go for the shimming, for safetymeasures, as i do not want to imagine a breaking, blocking U-joint to happen to me.
If i can i would love to keep the long rear shocks for the added handling.
thanks a lot for your help
tanti saluti and kind regards from italy
Christian
as im currently still (lifetime project LOL :lol: ) in the process of working on my Rnd cyl. tonti guzzi im trying to eliminate the frame lower rails as a measure for a lil less weight, better routing possibilities for the exhaust as well as looks (since im pondering on the idea of also using the later cam cover and perhaps cutting the front frame struts as well).
Anyways after i milled myself a decent 8mm torqueplate i noticed that without load my u-joint seems to touch (makes es a slight touching noise) the kardanhousing as im using quite long 350mm konis as those gave me back then a more responsive handling along with a lowered fork.
My question is "can" one without any greater danger, and knowing one should change with such long rear shocks the u-joint accordingly often, shim the torqueplate in order to line up the joint again, or is it a semi stupid idea??
I saw on some of the pics of racebikes (i.e. motobox guzzi) that they some of them also seem to have quite long rear shocks, nevertheless im hesitant to just go for the shimming, for safetymeasures, as i do not want to imagine a breaking, blocking U-joint to happen to me.
If i can i would love to keep the long rear shocks for the added handling.
thanks a lot for your help
tanti saluti and kind regards from italy
Christian