Project Superspurt

Keep it coming. Last night I put the too long ignored 907 up on the lift for a refurb. Jings but the cases are a state !
 
Pict said:
Can't remember if I have shared my clutch casing puller on here? Here it is pulling the clutch casing;

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Clutch Casing Puller 2 by PICT, Angus, on Flickr


Turned the engine round a few times to get all the oil out, then;

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Engine Paint 2 by PICT, Angus, on Flickr


Followed by;


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Engine Paint 3 by PICT, Angus, on Flickr


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I hope you are keeping the gold lettering Laddie :flash:
 
Diavel, my arse

sorry,
no, no sorry, that looks a grand job you're doin' there,
but the viewers should be reminded of this cracker,
and if the newbies haven't seen it, here it is..





not everyones, but as a ducati to me, i love it :)
 
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Blushing..

Ach Johhny - you are too kind. It was a braw bike though. 11 years development (and a few offs :rolleyes:) to get it like that. Funny though that if I hadn't sold it, I would never have met you lot - apart from Lochnagar who did a belt change many years ago one November Saturday after I had ridden over the 'Cairn through sleet to get to his (old) place - so every cloud, eh? Saw it last year at Cadwell, still going strong. The guy I sold it to was chuffed to see me rather than punch my puss so it must have been running fine after 50,000 + miles. I told him to change the oil every time he checked the tyre pressure so as to give the rocker arms a chance.. must be working :lol2:
 
CJK said:
How mant coates/just the one tin enough ? (thats all I have for mine !)
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That isn't done yet just a light dicht to show up where there were still bits of contamination (old paint, stripper, goodness knows what) that need cleaned off and re-primed. I would say that is about 1-1/2 coats and used 1/4 - 1/3 tin so one tin for an engine will be fine; 2 or 3 coats.

I know you are in your motor factors a bit - they will keep the U-POL; dinnae be throwing money at Halfords although tbh for a 'public' shop I find them reasonable.

Don't know why there is still contamination considering the amount of solvents that I have been at it with but I knew it would happen, the outer cases were the same. Wee 'pencil point' brass brushes on order then I'll get on with the top coat. Finally decided on 'Hycote Engine Enamel Aluminium' aerosol.
 
Anteater said:
That 916 (I find it hard to tell the 9 & 7 apart) looks like it should have been a keeper. :)
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It wasn't til it was gone that I realised that they are all keepers..

(748 with 853 conversion and more JHP ££ in the engine than I'm comfortable admitting, albeit over a few years)
 
Pict said:
It wasn't til it was gone that I realised that they are all keepers..

(748 with 853 conversion and more JHP ££ in the engine than I'm comfortable admitting, albeit over a few years)
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that's the problem when you get the good ones. Maybe that's what happened to the lochnagar man,
certainly how i feel about my bikes, shit then there's the guitars, oh no !!

P.S., by chance i met Wallace, (the guy i bought the ducs and aprilia from) , at the anstruther meeting by chance
and he was saying, you cannot find the good 998s models anymore, which proves that sometimes hang on to them,
Aye if you can afford them...:)
 
Anteater said:
got the swing arm & Marchesini on the chasis yet????????????
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Just going back in the (cough, wheeze) garage to do the 3rd coat of engine enamel. Got a bollox of a job to sort on the clutch cover, more on that later, then get top ends back on engine (all that entails... cam timing.. squish..) THEN stick frame on it and put the swinger and Marchi on. Sounds like an afternoons work when I say it like that!

Question; is it worth getting a 16yo Showa rear shock rebuilt vs picking up a s/h ie one (which would likely still need some work) vs a new fandango Wilber etc?

ha'pence worth of tar and all that
 
I might have a 3500 i.e. standard shock lying around(dont remember selling it) slightly longer so you get a rear end jack up / more weight over the front as a default when you change to the later i.e. shock (common trick on Desmo Due race bikes)
 
You are a pair of cheeky scamps! Any red (on the engine..) is only a reflection in the shiny engine paint. As you can see in the pics I rigged up a bit of a spray booth with dust sheets, and had everything else covered up but everything is minging with paint stoor nonetheless.
 
Nice work,mines ain't going to be as blemish free as that,my motor is complete and there is a lot of masking involved...thats my excuse ;)



oooohhh,and I dont suffer fi ocd :finger:
 
Clutch casing bush # 066549680 - a cautionary tale...

... and Seal # 937842030. Leave well alone unless they are completely gubbed!

I decided to 'just' pop them out and replace after the case had been painted. Bad idea.

Had to resort to the big toys - milling base on cross slide, vertical slide on milling base, vice on vertical slide, then made up wee pillars and an adaptor plate.

Bring on the 22mm end mill!


066549680 01 by PICT, Angus, on Flickr

As you can imagine, all these bits and pieces introduced more flex than was desirable, but needs must... I had my foot over the emergency brake :eek:


066549680 02 by PICT, Angus, on Flickr

The bush is 23mm OD, so I had left myself a wee margin for error. About 80% in, the endmill gripped on the bush and it pulled out when I backed off the casing. Phew, all that fannying about paid off :cool:

I then fitted a small slot drill to break through the outside of the seal so that I could get that out - that's where the lash-up really started getting dangerous, heart rate still hasn't settled. This was far more difficult than getting out the bush.

Anyway.. job done. Never again.


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If anyone has gotten these out any differently, I'd be very interested to hear about it. Don't even mention a blind puller - that's what started all this :o
 
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Pict said:
The bush is 23mm OD, so I had left myself a wee margin for error. About 80% in, the endmill gripped on the bush and it pulled out when I backed off ....... all that fannying about paid off ......heart rate still hasn't settled. This was far more difficult than getting out the bush.


Don't even mention a blind puller - that's what started all this :o
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Is this "Confessions of an engine builder" ? :confused:
 
All that to save a bit of paint? A bit of planning wouldn't have gone amiss then you could have heated the case and the bush would have dropped surely?
 
rockjock620 said:
All that to save a bit of paint? A bit of planning wouldn't have gone amiss then you could have heated the case and the bush would have dropped surely?
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EXACTLY :o

(Though I'm not sure it would be as easy as that, even with a good heat through)
 
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