2 Allen keys and 30 minutes work...

[banditloon]

Well this arrived at the pub tonight (should've been on my desk, but the pub was nicer!)

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So it was time to dismantle Nessie, again!!

The four bolts holding the clutch cover on removed, and then the next allen key for the 6 little springs. Into the box they go!

5 minutes of fishing around in the clutch housing, getting the old steel plates and clutch plates out. Chucking them into the box, and I'm enjoying myself at 8.30pm (probably the beer taking over!).

I open the nice shiney packaging (They even have Ducati writen on the silica gel bags!). Two steel plates in, one friction plate, one steel plate, ect ect until all the plates are in. Springs and pressure plate back on, tightened up, turn key, press the loud button....

Ride around the block (no doubt Kato heard me lol!). Sorted :thumbsup: Clutch cover put back on, with my Blue Peter addition (eight M6 washers!!).

Now, how to diagnose a :cens: clutch;

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I think it needed doing just a tad earlier

[Shandy]

I think it needed doing just a tad earlier

Oh yeah, that should make a little difference :eyepopping:

[Albie]

I think mine need doing too. It makes a described GRAUNCHHH!!!!!! when fast pull away.:Furious:

How come it took so long then LOL:scratch: :running: :running: :running: :running:

[banditloon]

Oh yeah, that should make a little difference :eyepopping:

And I was going to try and rescue those clutch plates so I could get on holiday for 2 weeks at the end of the month (including my 100 mile commute to work every week!!).

Twist the twisty thing and the front end pops up now... Strange thing this working clutch stuff :chuckle:

So my list so far;

Clutch system bled four times.
Replacement banjo bolt and bleed nipple on the slave cylinder
New master cylinder and lever
New clutch plates
and my £1 Blue Peter vented clutch cover :D

Now the rain starts.. Sods law :D

[Albie]

How much are they plz:D

[banditloon]

I think mine need doing too. It makes a described GRAUNCHHH!!!!!! when fast pull away.:Furious:

How come it took so long then LOL:scratch: :running: :running: :running: :running:

I've got another clutch arriving on my desk tomorrow (or Monday depending on Parcel Farce). Not sure what is in the kit though. £200 spent on it! Better be a new clutch basket, heavy duty clutch plates and some nice springs.

Shall be saving that in the spares box for 10,000 miles time ;) Sod running around like a headless chicken trying to get another set of plates again!

[banditloon]

How much are they plz:D

Right, todays set came from sunny Ducati Wolverhampton, £93.29 (without the dreaded VAT!), which is about £110. I haven't got the receipt as my mate bought the plates today.

Busters Accessories do a heavy duty clutch set (not sure whats in it, as there are no pictures on the site!) for £189.99. Ordered that on Saturday, only to be told on Tuesday (when I phoned them) that they were out of stock and new stock will be arriving on the 9th June! Went to cancel the order today to be told they have been dispatched... :banghead:

[Kato]

Yep I'd say they were properly cooked.......now about wakeing me from my semi napping state you noisey sod:Furious: :Furious: :Furious: get back in that garage

[banditloon]

Yep I'd say they were properly cooked.......now about wakeing me from my semi napping state you noisey sod:Furious: :Furious: :Furious: get back in that garage

Was that the 3 car alarms I got in Sainsburys car park that woke you? Or just my 'bimble' back to the garage??

No more garage until the morning, then it's wake up WOT again, as Nessie is going to work!! :D

[banditloon]

Don't see one for ages.....

Then two turn up in the same week

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Second clutch has arrived (actually on my desk today). So I'm now the proud owner of a spare DP Clutch :D

[barbican]

Whats the difference in the kits for the extra money?

[banditloon]

The DP Clutch is 'supposedly' a heavy duty clutch. £189.99 (add another £8 for springs).

Ducati one is probably just a 'standard' clutch and will burn out within 10 minutes (if I go by the Jap bike riding jealous people I've been dealing with today). £93.29, £1.52 for each spring and then add the VAT. Works out nearly £120 for a Ducati original clutch.

Friction material covers the face on the DP clutch and the Ducati clutch has little rectangles of friction material. Hopefully you are getting £90 worth of extra friction material with the DP clutch, and an extra plate. Ducati has 7 friction plates, DP has 8!

[banditloon]

Oh and not forgetting, you get a free sticker with the DP clutch :chuckle:

[Shandy]

Oh and not forgetting, you get a free sticker with the DP clutch :chuckle:

And not forgetting a flash box too :cool:

The standard plates should be fine, i think they use the same ones in all other dry clutch type bikes like the 916 and they have a bit more go go..........but then again if you ride like a loon i give em 15 minutes :chuckle:

At least you've got spares now!!!