Loctite vs Anti-seize

[Buckethead]

Pretty much.

Then again, since I live in the barracks without luxuries like, say, a kitchen, never mind something as superfluous as a garage, the stock steel oil-line fittings were looking pretty nasty. I'd have had to remove them to get them clean anyway, so why not throw on new ones and do a re-route while I'm down there?

On a side note, I was cleaning a couple of years of bugs and road grime off the oil cooler while I had it off and happened to notice THIS:



cast into the bottom of it.

[ducpainter]

Pretty much.

Then again, since I live in the barracks without luxuries like, say, a kitchen, never mind something as superfluous as a garage, the stock steel oil-line fittings were looking pretty nasty. I'd have had to remove them to get them clean anyway, so why not throw on new ones and do a re-route while I'm down there?

On a side note, I was cleaning a couple of years of bugs and road grime off the oil cooler while I had it off and happened to notice THIS:



cast into the bottom of it.

There was a post around about some other Duc part that KTM made...I don't remember what it was.

[junior varsity]

not seen that before.

[Buckethead]

The "irony" is that I managed to get the lines/fittings off the cooler with no drama whatsoever. 

[Triple J]

Any idea if the threads will create a tight enough seal for the lines if the crush washer doesn't have a perfectly flat surface to crush to? You know, like if PART OF THE make the beast with two backsING ENGINE CASE BROKE AWAY when the stock fittings were removed?

I had the same thing happen to my Monstrada when I replace the oil cooler lines. You'll need a flat surface for the crush washer. I just cleaned the break surface and re-applied the piece that broke off using JB Weld...installing the line before the JB Weld cured so the piece that broke away was undr compression. Be sure not to use too much JB, as you don't want to epoxy your oil cooler liner into the engine. It worked great and never leaked.

Here's the piece that broke off of mine:


Here's where it broke off...notice the piece missing on the top oil cooler line:

[ducatiz]

casting flaw

clean it off and use jb weld to put it back if you care.  it isn't big enough to make a difference.

[corey]

I'll be using anti-seize on my rearset bolts from now on after my latest stuck bolt saga.

JM

amen.
one ride after installing my rizomas, i got a nice suprise at about 80mph... my shifter pedal dangling limp...

[Buckethead]

[snip] ...notice the piece missing on the top oil cooler line:

EXACTLY. Except my missing chunk is on the top of that fitting. I'll try your solution. I'll also be sure to send off a nastygram to Ducati USA about my experience.

amen.
one ride after installing my rizomas, i got a nice suprise at about 80mph... my shifter pedal dangling limp...

Statler knows how to play that game. DIMBY 1.

[Triple J]

EXACTLY. Except my missing chunk is on the top of that fitting. I'll try your solution. I'll also be sure to send off a nastygram to Ducati USA about my experience.

Sucks, huh! 

I tightened the bolt somewhat tight, then came back the next day and cranked it down. IIRC, it did leak at first, but a little more tightening solved it.

[Buckethead]

Sucks, huh! 

Damn right.



This IZ_ cell phone pic of the offender was taken at the crime scene.



This is the damaged area, which friends and family say was traumatized by the vicious attack and likely "will never be the same."