NF gone for MOT and check over.
And having oil line to valve stuff, for piece of mind...
And I thought a grease nipple on swinging arm / check might be sensible....
Not quite what I was expecting.
"....made a start on your Guzzi today, decided to look at the fitting of a grease nipple as you requested, removed the rear wheel etc to remove the swinging arm and i discovered some movement in swinging arm to frame mounting, what has happened is the swinging arm bolt has seized inside the main bushing which has seized inside the two outer bush's, this has resulted in wear at the mounting points on the frame as suspension movement has twisted the mounting bolt back and forth wearing the mounting holes. After 3 hours of trying to get the bolt out i ended up having to drill the bolt from either side to release the arm from the frame, it then took 14 tons pressure on my press to release the main bushing from the swinging arm. I have ordered a new bolt but bush's and the main bushing seem to unavailable but i will keep trying, if i have no joy i will get a new main bushing manufactured and ream the two outer bush's to size, i will also take the two damaged mounting holes out to a uniform size and machine up some top hat bush's to take the hole size back to standard. Regards...."
Fingers and toes crossed!
Mark