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Originally Posted by spacemonkey
OK, finally got back on track with this. Last year by the time I had got the paint together the weather had turned and the temps dropped and humidity raised, so covered it up for the winter.
As a temporary fix, I bought a 25k mile mk1 1200 Bandit with full Akro system, rearsets, hi lift cams, dynojet/k&ns, GSXR shock and stuff I don;t know about for £1k as well as all the bits people add to these including new Bridgestone 023 tyres. And it's black and gold.. Changed fork seals and uprated the oil to 15w and fitted new chain, sprockets and Renthal gold Streetfighter bars. All good and got me back in the big bike groove. More or less same riding position and suspension feel as the Monster, but weaker brakes and no engine braking in comparison. Much faster once wound up though- hit 90 in top and twat the throttle and it goes all Millenium Falcon on me. Quite addictive but reminded me how much I miss my Monster. I'm also planning on buying a new bike later in the year to join the Monster for eternity and number one choice by a zillion miles is the Indian Scout. Absolutely love it....
So today I got the heads and barrels off. IN the end I opted to keep the pistons in the barrels after reading so many reports of ring damage trying to reassemble. I reckon I can just tape up the bores to mask and the pistons will stay in place nicely. Gonna be fun re attaching to the con rods but I'll sort that when the time comes. Thanks to my cousin holding heavy things while I unclip etc.
Now the slight worry- as soon as I could, I put paper towel in the crankcases to stop dirt and clips falling down there but I'm worried that inevitable some crud from around the barrel/crankcase openings must have gone in the vertical. Any advice on what I can do to try to flush anything out? The oil was drained last year but I wondered if it was a good idea to flush through with some very thin oil to try and flush any crud out?? Or shouldn't I worry?
The plan is to mask off the openings and then start removing paint. I have lots of small brass brushes on a dremel thing and that works quite well. Then mask up and spray. The heads need the oil seals doing and to get them generally checked over. Desmo is fine as only recently done before lay up. More worried about valve seats or stems. Probabyl; fine though as I always had it fully serviced bang on time and up to now has FSH by various Ducati specialist. It ran fine only a little smoke from the oil seals IMO. I'm going to use brass brushes on them then to get the paint and oxide off and paint them seperately before refitting.
So to recap, any advice on cleanign potential crud from insde the crankcase or not to worry? It's dirt from around the barrel bottoms.
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Just wondering whether you got that bolt out. I was lucky on mine and was surprised that both engine bolts were allen key headed and were very well greased so easily removed.
I take it your not going down that route of drilling the end out of the threaded end and then technically the allen key end would/should freely rotate and if so be easily punched out through. Look forward to see any progress soon.