Being sick of cleaning the float chamber every 5000 km or so, I placed a fuel filter between tank and carburetor. Also I treated ths fuel tank with "Tank Cure", which leaves an epoxy coating in the tank, thus preventing the formation of rust and other corrosion. Not only fuel, but also the oil can do with some cleaning. There are several ways in which an oil filter can be placed in the lubrication system. I opted for a ready-made filter set, which is produced in Germany by Gert Holzdeppe. It is a neat set, complete with oil-leads, banjo bolts, and other custom parts. The installation is simple and only takes about fifteen minutes.   The filter set includes an oil lead to the cylinder head, to improve the lubrication of the intake valve.

A flaw of the Nuovo Falcone is the rather under-sized oil pump. Especially after the installation of the additional oil filter and cylinder head oil lead, the lubrication system can do with a boost. Often an adapted V7 oil pump is fitted, but I chose a custom pump. As you can see, the gears are around 30% wider than original, so the pump yield improved by approximately 1/3.     In reply to a message from Mick in Australia (whom I can't reach by email) I add this: This oil pump was one of one-time batch, custom made by two guys of the dutch Moto Guzzi club. They needed oil pumps for their own bikes and decided that, once they had the CNC machines programmed, they could just as well make a whole batch. They are sold out now and as far as I know they are not planning to build them any more. But I'll ask, they might be willing to make another batch if there's sufficient demand, you never know! There are some German Guzzi specialists who sometimes offer custom made NF oil pumps; you could keep an eye on www.escher.de, www.motoschmitz.de, and www.mtr-ricambi.de. Another method is to adapt a V7 pump. Grind down the support axle stub of the first pump gear, either completely or leave a few milimetres and add a base plate that acts as a support bearing, as Henk Klein Hesselink did (see pic). The V7 pump has the wider gears that served as example for the gears used in the pump that I installed, i.e. about 30% increase of yield. Mick, I hope this was of some help.