Subject: Re: Tom H. has questions
Author: Greg Field
Date: Dec 16, 2003, 8:57 AM
Post ID: 1715516390
| The difference between Loop and T front ends is in the distance between the fork tubes. |
Also, the loop forks have a taper to match one in the loop triple-trees
and a top cap to clamp the tube and tree tapers together, so the T
forks probably will not bolt right in Eldo triple trees.
Bob Nolan used to machine a tapered cap for T-style forks to fit the
taper of Eldo triple trees. Roy Harvey of the main Guzzi list has a set
of these on his Ambo. You could ask him what all is involved.
| (3) Chuck out the "T" triple tree and use an Eldo one. It bolts up. Slip your illicitly obtained 35 MM tubes/sliders/wheel/brake into place and marvel at your cleverness. The stock dash and fender are ready to roll! Er, almost... Problems? See above concerning straps and fender braces the real deal NOS is more like NFW. |
On fenders for drum Eldos, there is a small steel strap on each side,
on centerline with the fork sliders, that bolts to its respective fork
slider. The disc sliders do not have holes for the bolts from the
straps. Instead, they have a boss at the trailing edge of each slider,
and the fenders for disc-brake Eldos have a strap on each side of the
fender that mounts to these bosses.
If you do the conversion, you could add these straps to your fender, or
leave them off, as they really don't do much (mine have both cracked
and have been broken for 5 years or so).
If you want me to, I'll talk to Bob about the tapered adapters and
second-disc adapters.
| Serious racers like Ken and myself run a 12mm M/C and a single F09 caliper on the left fork leg. |
Or, you could swap the fork sliders side to side, putting the calipers
behind the sliders. Then, you could run a single or even dual
four-piston calipers. I'm thinking of reverting back to single disc
with a four-piston caliper.
GF