Finally became a Ducowner - 05 620, 9K.
Came with Haynes manual, no owners manual.
Ordered Chris's Vid from Ca-Cycleworks, along with stand & feelers (mine are crusted & rusted).
Any must have manuals for the bike that lives one state away from the nearest dealer?
Unknown if this bike had it's 6K, I'll assume not. Belts look decent, but. maybe a tisch loose.
Unloaded a pint of acorn shells from airbox, not a good sign.
See talk of potential probs turning motor rear wheel,, tranny in gear, love to hear comment on tools I'll need - crank turning? forcepts (whatever they're called - fancy roach clips back in the day) - stuff a guy who maintains his own Saab wouldn'thave?
Got a nice Tourmaster Intake coat with the bike, bought some flex pants - very nice- plan to ride to work a few days this week - will cover the bike in mud the 1/2mi down my dirt (aka mud) road for the next month, who ever thought a tail chop was a good idea?
Cheers!
Owner's manual can be downloaded from ducati.com.
Desmotimes 2V manual will be useful.
Quote from: seevtsaab on March 30, 2009, 05:16:23 PM
See talk of potential probs turning motor rear wheel,, tranny in gear,
Not to thread jack but, mine does that. if she's up on the stand and I drop it into gear, the rear wheel turns. Is this bad?
Quote from: Ranger06 on March 30, 2009, 05:57:12 PM
Not to thread jack but, mine does that. if she's up on the stand and I drop it into gear, the rear wheel turns. Is this bad?
He's talking about something different. He's talking about turning the rear wheel, by hand, w/ the engine off as part of a maintenance procedure.
What you're talking about is normal for a wet clutch bike. With a wet clutch bike, the oil in the clutch will still transfer a small amount of the engine power through the clutch even when you have the lever pulled (clutch disengaged). Basically the oil acts as a viscous coupling. If you put you bike up on the stand when it was hot, you'd notice a decrease in the power going to the rear wheel since the oil would be thinner.
As far as tools - there's a pretty deep list under the tutorials section. For 99% of the work you'll only need a Metric Allen key set, and metric socket set. If you're planning to do your own valves, that's when you might want that crank turning tool, a shim measuring tool, and some calipers.
Forceps (roach clips) are just handy tools to have around. Locking ones are especially handy since they can clamp off small hoses or hold wires together for soldering. Also handy for fishing small items about of that PITA nook they got into