Back with a M900 series I

[Dirty]

Originally Posted by uksurfer

(and please stop ruining the thread with off topic comments)

Albie asked a question, I answered it. I agree, the OT should stop now and will as soon as people stop mentioning it

[uksurfer]

Originally Posted by Dirty

Albie asked a question, I answered it. I agree, the OT should stop now and will as soon as people stop mentioning it

Stop ****ing mentioning it then

[Albie]

Thanks all. I'm sure the images will get sorted. Jeff thanks for offer of bolts. I would like to take you up on that for a least some of them . Mainly footrest hangers and caliper bolts and ones on cam belt covers. I want it as it came for a number of reasons.
There are enough of you out there making it your own and that's what is supposed to happen. I have been there done even got the tee shirt. This one is at an age of being nearly being lost for good so bringing it back to the beginning.
I am not saying I won't in the future add stuff like termis as my exhausts are not early ones and have chamfers but it's always nice to see how they were.

[Albie]

I am sure the thread can be cleaned up after. Well hope so. Maybe there is a place to question it somewhere without it being taken so bluntly. For what it's worth I have mellowed over last 6 months and am now a moderator on another forum as I was asked and I am more positive about remarks and replies. It's all about asking and being patient in the hope of change.
Anyhow we are all mates ? right !

[Albie]

Pftttttttttttt. Is there a thread hoover tool need one of them too. Why is when you want spare parts so does everybody else. Never mind that bloke paid £26 for 4 secondhand indicators possibly damaged and I only needed 2. Just bought 2 brand new Ducati ones for £20 delivered so not so bad after all. Don't want spares anyhow.

[Albie]

Made the brackets for the newly acquired seat cowl tonight out of alloy sheet with a 90 bend already in it. Fitted on alright but left a gap on the seat so something needs adjusting. The hole position on the side is critical so I slotted the holes and am there. but I put a spacer under screw that mounts to the seat. Almost feels the flat part should have a crank in it.
The cowl itself is good and was the correct red too but after successfully removing white stripes it left a lacquer line which as carefully as I did wet and dry it off went down into the base coat so a complete respray is on the cards.

Got brand new indicators also in post too and managed to clean the rear light bracket mudguard nicely in all the nooks and crannies. Finally got the small nuts off the number plate light by dremelling ( other brands available ) the nuts as they had rusted on. Can clean them up now.
What bolts hold on rear indicator ie caphead allen bolt with lines or a shallow one with smaller allen key size. What nut also as in mechanical locknut.
Tomaselli hand grips bought to replace the heated grips.
Need to source a DUCATI sticker for seat cowl.
Footrests are now rid of their rubber coatings and are as stock items now.
Tomorrow some gentle work straightening the brake and clutch levers as they just don't look flat. A very careful adjustment needed and making sure I don't lose the brake switch pin.

Can anyone tell me anything about the tap on the oil feed line going from cooler to crankcase. No carb heaters on this model.

[Flip]

Originally Posted by Albie

Need to source a DUCATI sticker for seat cowl.

You'll be needing here then:

http://www.motostars.co.uk/products.php?cat=102&pg=3

The Cagiva font is not so easy to get hold of from dealers now as I believe Cagiva own the copyright to it which is why you hardly ever see genuine Ducati merchandise using it these days.

[Albie]

Originally Posted by Flip

You'll be needing here then:

http://www.motostars.co.uk/products.php?cat=102&pg=3

The Cagiva font is not so easy to get hold of from dealers now as I believe Cagiva own the copyright to it which is why you hardly ever see genuine Ducati merchandise using it these days.

Can you measure the size for me please 3 different but I would think 100mm.

[Flip]

Hi Albie,
Yes you need the 100mm size for the seat cowl (price is for a pair).

I have used Motostars a couple of times now and their decals seem pretty good.
I have just ordered the same design but only 60mm long for my carbon fairing so it will match the original red one.

[Albie]

Originally Posted by Flip

Hi Albie,
Yes you need the 100mm size for the seat cowl (price is for a pair).

I have used Motostars a couple of times now and their decals seem pretty good.
I have just ordered the same design but only 60mm long for my carbon fairing so it will match the original red one.

Thanks flip
Ordered and on way. Not that I can put on until a respray sadly. I also need to reinforce the areas around the moulded nut inserts as 2 were cracked. Rectified the strength with a soldering iron but intention is to make an outer wall from plasticine and throw some resin in there to cure around them. Same with other side once I reinstate a thread insert or a pair of m5 nuts on one that's broken off. It works with one but weak and looks bad. The joining web really should have been moulded thicker from a toolmakers point of view.

[Albie]

Originally Posted by Flip

You'll be needing here then:

http://www.motostars.co.uk/products.php?cat=102&pg=3

The Cagiva font is not so easy to get hold of from dealers now as I believe Cagiva own the copyright to it which is why you hardly ever see genuine Ducati merchandise using it these days.

Just want to say these decals are pretty poor and basic . I put one on a cowl and looks well erm sh1te tbh. I am ordering from Ducati for four times the price for 1 but will be better. If I had the font which was not correct totally I could have made them as well as no metallic element in it.

[Albie]

I have to take all three pieces of my yokes top and bottom ( plus a spare I have and will sell ) to vapour blasting in Sevenoaks as soon as I pick up from BigOz as he repaired the lock stop hole thread where it was a baggy fit. Then I can actually build up the bike for real with loctited nuts and bolts for real.
I am due to pick up a bike lift in the next week too which will assist me for real in life and make life that little easier and safer for my back too. Its secondhand but pretty much as new and has really only been used as a table to build on and not for maintenance. Its part of my xmas present so happy with that.
I still don't have any news regarding the engines progress but I am not too worried. Once I do have it back I need all the bolts out of it to be plated and I now have a small pile of other since acquired and had to make a second cable bracket for the left hand side and some more fittings found. I also want to replate the seat brackets as I have some letter stamps and have done them with stamps as original look.
I bought the stamps to make a frame number plate as much as I tried to mask off the number. You can still see it but I could not match the colour in the missing area so made a couple of plates and stamped the numbers on and will either be stuck or riveted on so if plod wish to remove they can and have photographic evidence. It will also stop frame frame rubbing off from the cables. I may get one podercoated at Redditch again the correct match to make it blend or use the alloy finish.

I got another secondhand seat cowl from Ducati Wolverhampton last week too. Not perfect but I wont need to repaint it for now. It has a few chips and was missing one mounting insert ( didn't describe it at well as in fact didn't describe any damage POOR POOR seller ) so I made one from half a spoke wheel nipple re-threaded M5 and used some large diameter silicone tube as a mould and filled the hole with resin glue around the nipple. I then just had to trim the top off and touch up with red paint. Its not as severe modification I had to do on the last one. It works and is just waiting for a new decal.


I have 3m of 8mm pipe coming for carb breathers and need to figure out the wrong fuel tank breather pipes as to where I route them pipes to as they have fuel pipe fitted to them and far too thick and overkill.




That's pretty much all for now.

[Albie]

A couple of questions about the early engines guys. Now bearing in mind this is a 93 with a pull out choke model.
Question 1.
There is a tap on the oil feed line from crankcase to cooler. Is this an on/off for a purpose. No carb heaters on this one.
Question 2.
The alloy clutch cover ( with elephant ) looks thicker on the flange and was wondering if it had still a gasket of rubber like later ones do. There are some marks inside where I was wondering if clutch when out was rubbing.






I managed to straighten the brake lever easily by hand once clamped in the vice. No real force required and the clutch was ok.

New grips here


Carbon is coming on good and needs just more lacquer


Underneath the rubber was all alloy standard footys


Seat cowl getting fixed



Filler will be cleaned up with dremel



Headlight is a bosch H4 and clean.





Tea tray has new indicators

[Darkness]

Question 1. There is a tap on the oil feed line from crankcase to cooler. Is this an on/off for a purpose. No carb heaters on this one.

There isn't on either of mine.

Question 2. The alloy clutch cover ( with elephant ) looks thicker on the flange and was wondering if it had still a gasket of rubber like later ones do. There are some marks inside where I was wondering if clutch when out was rubbing?

No gaskets on mine, but have you checked that the cover hasn't been pushed in a little at the centre? They are quite soft.

I managed to straighten the brake lever easily by hand......

Albie, I'd keep the original, but wouldn't feel happy using it on the bike. Ally work hardens when you bend and re-bend it, and a brake lever isn't a place to take a chance of it snapping whilst you are using it..............

I'm looking forward to seeing it back on the highway.

[Darkness]

Originally Posted by Darkness

Question 1. There is a tap on the oil feed line from crankcase to cooler. Is this an on/off for a purpose. No carb heaters on this one.

There isn't on either of mine.

Correction There isn't one on my Japanese first registered '94 m900, but there is on my UK first registered '93 m900 to feed carb heaters.