Hi All,
I'm working on an old motorbike engine (OK, it's not a VMX bike..
.) and trying to sort out the gearbox (OK, it's Italian...
.). The thing must have been put together by a bunch of drunks late on a Friday afternoon (OK it's a Guzzi.......
) because the shimming is not within a bulls roar of what it needs to be (OK, it's a late 60s bike........
) and it's no wonder that the gears and selector forks are all mangled and blued (OK I paid too much for it.......
)
So here's my question, apart from trolling through the parts book for part numbers and then writing to a million Guzzi spares places around the planet looking for NOS,
where can I find gearbox shims ? I'm talking about hardened steel shims- the kind we find in gearboxes). I initially expected that they'd be available through bearing supply places, but all my inquiries so far have drawn a blank. Phil H. suggested I talk to someone who works on automatic gearboxes in cars, but again my inquiries so far have resulted in vacant stares and an unashamed suggestion that I'm wasting their precious time.......
But surely I'm not the first person who has tried to fix a gearbox's dodgy shimming ? In truth, as a previous Montesa rider, I have gathered together a considerable collection of gearbox (and crankshaft shims) but none of them suit the Guzzi, which has a proliferation of 17mm, 19mm, 25mm and 35mm i.d. shims, in .010", .020" and .040" thicknesses.
Any ideas/suggestions, apart from that I ditch the engine and replace it with a nice Yamazuki one ?
Cheers,
Nitram
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? Dunno really.
Or is that just wishful thinking .......
