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As a nice break for me from shitty old vans, thought I'd stick up a build thread of the Ducati
A 2000 model, the last with the old style 916 three spokes, only 6000 miles from new and has been stored for years in a house.
I tentatively fired it up, wary of the aged cambelts I took it easy, bit disappointing to be honest, didn't have the bark I remember these Ducatis having and (a little more expected) a host of electrics didn't work, mostly trivial but most seriously it wasn't charging - not uncommon.
It wouldn't hold an idle so I blipped the throttle very gently to let it warm.
Put it off for a bit but tonight I pulled the belt covers off, first impression belts are a bit slack and as dry and creaky as expected, but when I brought the top cylinder cams up to the mark, I noticed this on the horizontal cylinder's exhaust cam pulley.
Unless I'm mistaken, that's a tooth out? Might explain the poor running?
But, then I checked the crank pulley....
Again a tooth out, putting the crank pulley on the mark makes the previous pulley timed up right, but unfortunately the other three are out. No wonder it was stored and not ridden for years, must have run like crap.
I also had a look at the electrics as I gained clearance to the cam covers, I used to be a design engineer for AMP connectors so I appreciate the Econoseal connectors used throughout the loom but I wish Ducati had used one on the ignition switch connector
God knows how this worked but it was one of the things that did!
A 2000 model, the last with the old style 916 three spokes, only 6000 miles from new and has been stored for years in a house.
I tentatively fired it up, wary of the aged cambelts I took it easy, bit disappointing to be honest, didn't have the bark I remember these Ducatis having and (a little more expected) a host of electrics didn't work, mostly trivial but most seriously it wasn't charging - not uncommon.
It wouldn't hold an idle so I blipped the throttle very gently to let it warm.
Put it off for a bit but tonight I pulled the belt covers off, first impression belts are a bit slack and as dry and creaky as expected, but when I brought the top cylinder cams up to the mark, I noticed this on the horizontal cylinder's exhaust cam pulley.
Unless I'm mistaken, that's a tooth out? Might explain the poor running?
But, then I checked the crank pulley....
Again a tooth out, putting the crank pulley on the mark makes the previous pulley timed up right, but unfortunately the other three are out. No wonder it was stored and not ridden for years, must have run like crap.
I also had a look at the electrics as I gained clearance to the cam covers, I used to be a design engineer for AMP connectors so I appreciate the Econoseal connectors used throughout the loom but I wish Ducati had used one on the ignition switch connector
God knows how this worked but it was one of the things that did!
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