Ducati Monster Forum

Its so sad that my monster evo has experienced a seized roller bearing failure.

I was riding going up to one of rider preferred route to eat breakfast and everything was fine. After eating I had to gas up since we know that our monsters have small tanks.

After gassing up we went home. Everything was fine going down the mountain and when we were on the flat road about 40 kms from where we ate, my engine died.

So we parked thinking it was an overheat since it wont start. But temperature was 3 bars. We waited till it was 1 bar and tried to start it to no avail. Suspecting bad gas, we siphoned out the gasoline and put in new gas from the gas station a block down the road.

Again if failed to start. So I had it towed to the nearest ducati dealer. Prior to this i removed the plugs since we suspected bad gasoline. The top cylinder had sooty carbon filled plug. The second had the same but it was damaged which scared me since  only a piston can damage the plug.

They are now in the process of overhauling the engine. It has 16500 kms only or so. And maintenance was done on a ducati dealer (were i sent the bike)

Hopefully Ducati will do a goodwill warranty on my beloved bike.

 :'( :'(

do you run open belts? or power wash your bike?

This sounds serious; let us know what they find in there after teardown.  Sounds like valve timing went off and things broke and bounced arond damaging the spark plug.

Did your belt slip some teeth?. What was the prognosis from the dealership for the cause? Since the dealership did the last maintenance and have the records if the belt slipped teeth, they should be responsible for not tightening the belts to the correct level.

That said, you said you have 16000 km on a 2012 1100 Evo. Service intervals on belts are 2 years or 12000 miles. Did the dealership do a belt replacement?