Gregory Bender

Valve clearance tappet adjustment tool

Moto Guzzi V700, V7 Special, Ambassador, 850 GT, 850 GT California, Eldorado, and 850 California Police models

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Thanks to John Dyer for posting his idea for a tappet adjustment tool on the old Yahoo! Loopframe_Guzzi news group (which has now moved to Groups.io). This tool will be very useful when adjusting the valve clearances. In John's own words:

I made the adjustment wrench in the photo myself.

It's just a slot cut and filed in the end of an old spanner which had been sacrificed for something else. Original toolkits had something similar.

Tappet adjustment tool for Moto Guzzi V700, V7 Special, Ambassador, 850 GT, 850 GT California, Eldorado, and 850 California Police models.
Tappet adjustment tool for Moto Guzzi V700, V7 Special, Ambassador, 850 GT, 850 GT California, Eldorado, and 850 California Police models.

Photo courtesy of John Dyer.