Way(s) to disassemble a Monster???

[zooom]

when I disasembled a buddies 996 recently, the thing I did to make a portion of my life easier was to take the exhaust off, and then perched the bike up on a milk crate under the engine which made sliding the front wheel and forks off as an assembly really easy and then unbolted the swingarm with rear wheel and all off in it's entirety and then unbolted the frame and motor and lifted the frame up and off...

[dolphaxel]

Looks like there are already all sorts of good things here, but I just finished mine and had great luck. I used a chain hoist in my shop. Allowed me to raise and lower easily to any level. Also I bought a ducati shop manual and all of the recommended lubes and loctites. Everything was put into grouped and labelled bags.

I made an engine stand my self and it worked like a champ. just 1" square tubing.

Good luck and take your time!!

[He Man]

the workshop manual has a certain procedure to drop the motor which will ultimately end up with a bare frame.

Quite frankly i would say ignore it and figure it out yourself. Its not something that you can mess up, just spend maybe an hour more realizing that yuo should of taken this or that. it will really hlep you understand how things go together.

[uberranger]

the workshop manual has a certain procedure to drop the motor which will ultimately end up with a bare frame.

For sure. You don't need to take everything off that's shown.  A lot of things can be gotten around, as there's enough wiggle room.

Good luck! 

And also, from experience, don't powdercoat the swingarm red unless you can test the powder on a piece of aluminum scrap and compare first.  I did mine with cheap Harbour Freight powder (which was fine in and of itself) that turned more of a super-dark-orange or just really bright red.  It was noticeably brighter than the frame (I ended up just leaving it, as it grew on me, but I digress).  I was advised to use black by members of this forum, and I probably should have listened.  Painting the swingarm, on the other hand, is significantly easier to do correctly.

[He Man]

if you buy it from a reputable shop (columbia coatings or eastwood or powderbuythepound) they are usually spot on with color.

[Cloner]

I rode the Cherohala Skyway once with a gent from Florida who used a guardrail to disassemble his Monster S4RS.  Frame here.......headstock over there....a wheel the other way.....

However, I don't recommend this method.  Reassembly is a pregnant dog, if you survive the airlift to Knoxville.  (he did)

[OT]

I rode the Cherohala Skyway once with a gent from Florida who used a guardrail to disassemble his Monster S4RS.  Frame here.......headstock over there....a wheel the other way.....

That was my first thought, too.... sinister minds think alike.