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Well, I turned him over to check sex, and the toad started cursing me in Latin. Sounded male. I decided not to press the issue
After the first time or two they usually settle in and you just end up swapping the belts every two years or 15,000 miles.
I know yours will see many more miles in much shorter a time, and probably higher rpm too. But we go a solid 5 years on the belts. I thought that was the current recommendation, though I know it wasn't the OEM rec at the time ours was produced. That said GATES says (about essentially the same belts in other applications) that they should be good for 10 years and our old dealer service manager who was a bit of a Ducati wizard even suggested the same 5 years interval we were using without prompting. So maybe something to consider - perhaps depending on your mileage you might inch that interval up as time goes by.I haven't taken glamour shots in a while, but here's ours after yesterday's lunch ride (67F and sunny). Likely to be the last of the season, so topped up, cleaned up and ready to be put back away.
The Scrambler service schedule says 15k on the belts and they've extended the time to 5 years. I was wrong. I thought they were due at the first service(7,500 miles) with the valve check/adjust. There's actually some confusion regarding the service schedules. Ducati UK is saying all bikes are now 15k miles between desmo service with the exception of a couple models that are actually 18,000. That doesn't match the owner's manuals for some bikes.
It costs $110 for the rental and requires a $500 deposit. It’s a 5-6 hour job to tear everything apart, check & adjust the valves, change the belts and reassemble. That’s on a simple Scrambler. I’ll happily pay $600 to have a dealer do it while it’s under warranty. After the first time or two they usually settle in and you just end up swapping the belts every two years or 15,000 miles. By the way, how about some pictures of your 900SS?
I don't know what "special tools" anyone would be talking about. Unless you consider a set of feeler gages and a micrometer "special." No one has yet mentioned one of the things that makes the ST4 series of bikes a real maintenance headache: Rocker arm flaking. All the ST series (and some 749/999 bikes) are prone to having the hard chrome surface treatment on the rocker arms flake off. So an owner really needs to pull the cams out and inspect the rocker arms for wear every other valve inspection, at a minimum. Gee, a surface hardness problem that leads to metal flaking that can destroy the engine...that sounds awfully familiar. Who says there's no Guzzi content in this thread?
these tools?https://emsduc.com/product-category/tools/
What’s a good name for a toad? A big fat one jumped onto my porch this weekend and he apparently plans to stay long term.
Not to be mean. But Muzz. Check out the location of the dry clutch on these Ducatis. It’s all right there. No screw of doom.
Fit MBP retainers instead of the wire collets and you'll rarely need to change a shim.Get the (Desmoquattro) rockers resurfaced by Newman cams (www.newman-cams.com) and you'll put the flaky rockers to bed for good...
Bevel motors were time consuming because the upper rocker pins had to be removed to access the lower rocker for service.
Ouch. Low blow there Prescott. I am hoping that the 2nd hand box will last longer than 12,500 miles per 5th gear.
4valve motors were fiddly (at least in my experience) due to working tight spaces
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Especially 916 rear cylinder exhaust....
So Muzz. How is your gear box working out so far? I’m really hoping your first one was just bad for some reason and the second one runs 100,000 miles without complaint.
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My experience is to just put the wire collets in the same way they came out (you can tell from from the marks on them) and no need for the MBPs. I also had a stack of perfectly good used belts when I sold the bike...lol
You must have eyes like Superman! I always just shook my head at the tech manual saying put the collets in the way they came out: looking at something the size of a fingernail clipping and trying to tell which side is the top or bottom. I never could tell even with a 6 inch magnifying glass. I always dropped them anyway. Worse than looking for a dropped contact lens. Always kept a half-dozen or so spares in my shim box. Wouldn't even waste my time looking for a dropped one...just grab a new one and keep going. Hence my earlier comment about Ducati mechanics ending up in a rubber room somewhere.
