Topica Loopframe_Guzzi Archive


Subject: Neutral Switch Adjustment

Author: murp-@aol.com

Date: Sep 20, 2001, 12:06 AM

Post ID: 1708307270


Hello all,
I am (hopefully) almost finished my Eldo restoration, but spent about
3 hours today trying to get the neutral switch to operate properly. I
followed the advice given in 'Guzziology', which says that if you bend
the copper strip (which is accessible by removing the 6mm bolts holding
the assembly in the transmission) upwards, you will get a longer
duration contact, and a shorter duration contact if you bent the strip
up. Well I have been trying to adjust the bend in the strip for hours,
and the result is that I get a good contact in all gears plus neutral,
or no contact in all gears plus neutral. Looking at the strip, I could
see that the contact area on the upper side of the strip was slightly
worn, so I used my grinder to grind the strip so that the contact area
would be the highest point in the plane of the strip (I thought that the
contact area might be worn so that the strip was contacting more than
the bump on the shift drum, and so would indicate neutral all the time).
Anyway, this made no difference. Any help would be appreciated.
I also have another question. 'Guzziology' says that only the police
bikes had to be in neutral for the starter to work. I have a civilian
bike, for which I re-designed the electrical system using 9 automotive
relays. I wired it to give the same functionality as what was shown in
the circuit diagram (for the civilian Eldo), which shows that the bike
must be in neutral for the starter to operate. Because 'Guzziology'
states that only police bikes had this feature, I suspect that the
circuit diagram for the civilian model is wrong. To confirm this, could
someone let me know definitively whether or not a civilian Eldo must be
in neutral before it can start? Because I am having so much trouble with
the neutral switch, I am thinking that it is not a good idea to have
this in the starter circuit.
Any help would be appreciated.
Brian Murphy
'74 Eldo
'78 T3

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