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Just tried out the ignition timing on the Darmah, it had been some 16 degrees before TDC at idle. Kevin from Perth Australia suggested that the pickup pole might have moved out. this possibility reinforced by by a witness mark on the reluctor and the underside of the pole piece. I pushed the pole ...

Kev:
Thanks for your tip regarding loose poles in the pickup, after yelling Eureka at the top of my voice, I deployed to the garage and tried to wiggle the offending pole which was noticeably further out than the one on the other pick up. No wiggle, but a large pair of pliers moved it in by a finite ...

I would rather not disturb the wiring loom by totally detaching the cover, I am tentatively thinking of attaching a dial test indicator to a spindle in the outrigger main bearing in the cover. With the vertical cylinder working correctly I may be able to make a comparison with the horizontal ...

Just pulled the clutch cover and note a witness mark on the reluctor and on the inner pole of the lower pickup coil. It appears that the gap is too small. I'm thinking of either grinding the pickup pole or moving it out slightly, Can someone advise the actual gap required? Would also be interseted ...

Steve:
Thanks for your prompt response, I've tried that, and got the textbook full advance at idle RPM. No one that I have queried has ever seen this. It appears that the total advace curve encompasses about 16 degrees starting at 16. It stops at 3,000 RPM regardless of how high above that I go. The ...

I recently purchased a Brancato degre wheel from Steve and when checking the vertical cylinder, the advance was as adertised going to full advance at some 3,000RPM. On th horizontal cyclinder the advcance at 1,000RPM is 16 degrees, this goes to full advance at 1,500. I have tried different Bosch ...

At the end of an extensive restoration of a 1980 Darmah, I was disappointed with the overall performance. The bike seemed fussy and backfired at the slightest provocation. It would laso not go above 70 MPH.
Not havoing much experience of the marque I thought that this might be the way things went ...

I finally got the ignition timing right on my Darmah. Used the degree wheel, found TDC for each cylinder and with a timing light hooked into the system was able to see the correct near 6 degree BTDC reading by removing plugs and turning the engine by hand. With starter chain removed. You still get ...

I re-wired the ignition pickup coils with plain wire and now don't know if the polarity is correct. As in a previous item I tried using a home made pointer with no success. It should be noted that the bike starts immediately and idles at 1,500 RPM. Being somewhat anal, I would like to be sure that ...

Yes Dean I must admit that I was very happy to see the fluid level in the M/C go down at last, Thanks everyone.
Bruin.

Thanks everyone for your help, there are indeed two holes in the bottom of the reservoir, one is very tiny and was blocked with crud from twenty years of sitting. I broke a bristle off a wire brush and cleared it. The information about the operation of the master cyclinder from the Laverda web site ...

Steve: Thanks for your response. The second hole definitelydoes not go through, I removed the M/C removed the plunger assembly and checked. The fornt or central one, goes al the way through but the back does not. If anyone out rhere has an old rear M/C perhaps they could check. Then if I have ...

After an afternoon in the garage I'm totally frustrated. For the record the lines are new Goodriidge from UK c/o my son, the master cylinder internals are new Brembo and the pistons and caliper seals are new.
Using Steve's technique I get large and small bubbles but never any fluid level drop, I did ...

Is there a trick to bleeding the rear brake on a Darmah? I had seen all sorts of comments about the difficulty of bleed in the front but it was easy. I just can't seem to get the rear master cylinder to pum at all. Someone suggested taking it off and raising it above the height of the caliper. I'll ...

I rewired my ignition pick up coils on which the insulation had completely disappeared, using some aircraft quality teflon wire. I wasn't sure of the original color code as there were only pigtails left on the coils. I hooked up the wires into the connectors on the Bosch boxes and tried to start one ...