Black hose clamps?

Bill in OKC · January 05, 2010, 12:28:01 PM

I have been 'nudged' to replace my hose clamps

with black ones from the Streetfighter. I've not seen a Streetfighter in person, but it sounds like a good cheap mod. I guess I could paint mine but I'm too lazy

. There is not a parts catalog for the Streetfighter yet. Is there a way to order black hose clamps from Ducati (and not get the silver ones by mistake)? P/N's etc.? Thanks.

TAftonomos · January 05, 2010, 04:04:02 PM

We think alike in a scary way.

I'm headed to the dealer tomorrow morning to get some shims/belts for the st, and was planning on asking about them while I was there. I'll order 2 sets as long as they arn't stupid expensive

DucHead · January 06, 2010, 03:18:23 AM

I replaced mine with Earl's clamps from anplumbing.com

I got red and one black (no red in -14):
Part# 900118: -18 Econo-fit (red) - I ordered 5
Part# 900114: -14 Econo-fit (red) - I ordered 4
Part# 900514: -14 Econo-fit (black) - I ordered 3

Part numbers for black: 9005-

TAftonomos · January 06, 2010, 05:53:04 AM

Those look interesting as well, have soem close ups?

DucHead · January 06, 2010, 08:49:48 AM

Quote from: TAftonomos on January 06, 2010, 05:53:04 AM
Those look interesting as well, have soem close ups?

Sorry, these will have to do for now:

TAftonomos · January 07, 2010, 11:09:16 AM

Ducati Omaha looked them up for me.

$2.99 each 20-35mm adjustable phillips
$2.99 each adjust16-27 phillips
Smaller than 16mm crimp tool $3.99 - 4.99

Spraypaint?

corey · January 07, 2010, 11:34:06 AM

Are they just like silver steel?
What about gun-bluing them? Would like kinda cool, pretty much black...

http://www.vansgunblue.com/

junior varsity · January 07, 2010, 01:17:36 PM

i've always thought cold bluing didn't work to well on guns, dunno about with other parts.

moto · January 12, 2010, 10:33:18 AM

The streetfighter house clamps are painted black (and not a good quality paint either).

-M

TAftonomos · January 12, 2010, 11:25:33 AM

Quote from: moto on January 12, 2010, 10:33:18 AM
The streetfighter house clamps are painted black (and not a good quality paint either).

-M

I was wondering that same thing myself...

Something else I noticed about the SF that bugged me. Is it just me, or do the rad hoses look sort of incomplete. Almost like they took something off the shelf, said "pretty close", and were done. None of them line up square with the outlets, and some don't really fit on the inlet/outlets all the way. I've seen worse, but I wouldn't expect something like that to come with a 15-20K toy.

Shitty, IMHO.

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