I see a lot of posts about a break in period, and assume it is like a car, you want to take it easy for the first 500 miles or so, to let the pistons set, etc.? What all should I be doing or not doing on the break in period for a V7III?
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Yes, it's much like the initial running in period with a car.
The first 1000km (about 600 miles) you should avoid revving it over 4500 rpm, running it for too long at a single rpm speed, and work the transmission, clutch, and brakes gradually to let everything bed in. As you approach that 600 mile point, rev it a little more past 4500rpm, in stages. The first service at the end of that period is critical, and should be a *full* service: change all the lubricants in engine, transmission, and rear drive, change the engine oil filter, adjust the valves, and check *everything* on the bike to assure that all critical fasteners are properly torqued and all adjustments (clutch cable, etc) are spot on.
Then my advice is to continue the break in through 1000 miles (to about 1600 km) gradually pushing the engine to red line and feeling how it's running. On my Racer, it was quite clear that at about 800-900 miles it just started to run and rev more sweetly: it'd passed some critical running-in threshold and was ready to be used to the full.
Moto Guzzi transmissions are very robust, in general, and often take even a while past that to fully run in and reach their optimum smoothness. My Racer is almost there at about 4500 miles; my 1989 LeMans Mark V wasn't really fully run in on the transmission until past 10,000 miles.
G
Ok, good information. I wish the V7 Carbon had a Tach. Does Todd do the incremental services over in Orange? Would the bike I am getting have the bad oil filter that I have been hearing about?
Dave