Monster Resurrection

[Raux]

let me know if you need something from europe. i can run (literally run  ) to the local ducati shop and pick it up. I'm heading there tomorrow in fact.

[Raziel]

Thank you kindly Raux, that's a nice offer, but the exchange rate and shipping makes it a pricey proposition for me at over $100 USD, so I'm going to keep looking and wait for motorcyclecarbs.com to get back online (server crash) and also call Sudco per Howie's recommendation. If that doesn't work out, I may be back to take you up on the offer!

I tore the carbs apart tonight, yeesh... they look like a week old breakfast skillet that's been deep-fried and drizzled with butterscotch. The float bowl gaskets and jet carrier gaskets are *maybe* salvageable, but it's iffy... some of the o-rings have seen their better days too. I'm hoping to clean everything this week and see how things go back together but I'm probably gonna need the rebuild kit or at least order some of the individual items if I can find them. Meanwhile, I keep running across references to the Keihin FCR's and it's getting harder to stop looking. Until I look at the price tag, that is...

The battery, I'm happy to say, continues to hold a charge so that's good news. Still need to take some pics of the tank!

[Raux]

yeah don't worry about the shipping. i have an american post office post here so it's stateside rates to ship to you.

[dlearl476]

If Sudco doesn't have the parts, these guys will, unfortunately it's communication 1980's style:

Thank you for visitng Motorcyclecarbs.com. Our server has suffered a catastrophic crash.

If you have orders or questions please email us. at: sales [at] motorcyclecarbs. com.

We estimate that our site will be down till the end of the month. Our staff is overloaded and we are drastically trying to recoup.

We appologize for this inconvenience, and ask that you be patient with us. This is a very trying time. We are not out of business.

Sincerely,

The management.
Motorcyclecarbs.com

[duc996]

1.Belts
2.Tires
3.Oil
4.Gas

That's my list

[mojo]

I haven't tried bleeding the brakes on my bike yet, but I've heard they can be a PITA.  I remember watching an episode of Gearz on Speed channel a while back, and I saw a brake bleeder that might make life a lot easier.  It pushes the air up and out the master instead of trying to suck it down and out the caliper.
There is even a video from the Gearz show showing how it works.

http://www.brakebleeder.com/

[Howie]

If you are just changing the fluid and there is no air in the system you will be fine as long as you don't run the reservoirs dry or release a lever with a bleeder open.

[Raziel]

OK so I'm sloooooooooowwww..... 

I finally got some free time and the new cam belts are in, it was much easier than I thought it would be. I used the 5mm allen key trick to set the tension.

The carb rebuild kits I got on ebayUK are on their way, long wait. Of course the day after I ordered them they were available again here in the US, online. Naturally. Still need to finish cleaning the carbs so I can pop everything back into place when they arrive.

And I haven't done the hydraulics yet, but I think I'm going to pick up a few stainless speed bleeders from fleabay.

In the meantime I decided to upgrade to the Evoluzione plug wires, but ran into a snag. I thought these would be plug and play, but I'm a little confused. The unfocused pic below shows the bottom of the coil (bottom) after pulling the existing plug wire, which I'm holding. Upper right is the new Evoluzione plug wire. What am I missing? Do I need to fab something, or is there more of the existing plug wire that needs to come off the coil? Doesn't look like that's possible but what do I know.

[rule62]

When I replaced my plug wires, I just cut off one of the ends of the new wires and then screwed the new wires in where the old wires came out.  The new wires didn't have the same metal core for the coil to "bite" into, so I used a bit of silicone adhesive to make sure the wires don's come away from the coils.

[Raziel]

Hmmmm.... does that mean I can just chop the new wire and push it over the wee rod inside the sleeve? I'm not sure I got everything off of it, as I pulled rather than unthreaded the old plug wire, which I've since read is the thing to do. Seems like a pretty tenuous electrical connection.

[Raziel]

Anyone else care to chime in? This seemed like such an easy mod, I figure someone else has been down this path. Screw on the new cable, or???