The Moto-Guzzi Nuovo Falcone VOC

Hi everyone.

I'm about to become the owner of a 1972 Nuovo Falcone.
It in fairly good condition, just needs a few minor fixes and tweaks.
I saw it running a couple of months ago, and it's not been ridden much since, but since then the Spark Plug Threads have stripped.

Best bit is it has a Garrard GP Sidecar with it (not yet attached), which the owner bought a few years ago with the intention of fitting it.

Looking forward to tearing into the repair of the Spark Plug threads, will likely be asking for advice/guidance on that, among other things.

Thanks. I have an engineer mate, we found the pin and industrial loc-tited it in; Next problem, the clutch basket snapped a tang off on retightening - now made a special tool!, and said mate luckily can weld cast iron. it's a funny thing to make from cast iron, steel would have ben much more sensible.

That doesn't sound good.
No help to you at all, but there was a selector drum on eBay for ages a few years back, and although I'm a sucker for buying parts on a 'just in case' basis, I had never heard of anyone having an issue with one, so let it pass.
You could try Schubert (SMS) in Germany who seem to have cornered the market for parts, Retro in Abbadia, just along from Mandello, or does it look repairable?
Sorry for the tardy reply - pretty much nobody uses the forum these days, so I don't often check it....

But there is more!!  I discovered that I had in my box of taps and dies an imperial tap (1/2" UNF, I think) which would cut a useable thread in the crankcase mounting holes.  I did this in the top of the four holes which had the crankcase locating dowels at the joint end, and then made up screwed plugs for these, two of which being threaded 6mm to take a couple of lengths of 6mm studding.  Voila! I now have the means to "jack" open the crankcase halves any time I want to!

Of course, in my case the discovery of the UNF tap was fortuitous, and a 12mm tap or similar size would do the same job, but the internal threading of the outer holes (only by 10mm deep) will do no harm to the cases and I now have an elegant means to open the cases in the future!

Why Moto Guzzi didn't provide jacking points or levering lugs in the first place is a mystery to me...

Sigean

Hi,

I am about to renovate my Nuovo Falcone's cylinder head and would welcome any recommendations for parts suppliers.  I need new valves, guides, springs, etc. and am thinking of going "lightweight" in this regard, having witnessed firsthand the destructive power of the standard valves when the head lets go of the stem...  A new piston set and rebore will also be necessary.

Experiences of purchases or advice regarding European suppliers (I live in the UK) would be helpful.  The only supplier I have used in the past has been Uwe Pirner.

Kind regards,

Sigean