Which workshop Manuals would you Buy?

[Davieravie]

Hello folks. I bought myself a 749S last year and although I was an aircraft technician in her finest majesty's Royal Air Force (i can use spanners and can drink copious ammounts of tea), I was wondering what is the best workshop manual to buy. Had a look at Amazon but i can only find 1 for the 748. I had a look at the 1 that they use in Alvins but i don't like reading telephone directories. I have the tools including a nice big hammer. Where do i start??:puzzled:

[TP]

I'm fairly certain you'd have to go through your dealership to get one?

Can anyone help this gent out?

[swannymere]

:saint:The official Ducati one,they come up on ebay now and then:devil:

[Davieravie]

I think that was the one that the techies use in the workshop that i looked at. You could lay founds for a house with those!! Anything out there with nice simple pictures, already coloured in?

[JPM]

I downloaded the 999RS04 spares catalogue and workshop manual, not that I have a 999RS04, but if you can download them from some dubious web site I'm guessing you'll be able to do the same for the road variants

[swannymere]

:D Mine cost £55 from a dealer,and paid for itself within 3 months.:D

[Davieravie]

Originally posted by swannymere
:D Mine cost £55 from a dealer,and paid for itself within 3 months.:D

Which one was that?

[andyb]

I think Ducatis are such that you cant just use a manual or instructions like mfi cabinets!

I think there is a certain nack for a lot of the proceedures, that yes youve got to do it to learn it, but do you really want to be experimenting on your own bike.

[Davieravie]

Originally posted by andyb
I think Ducatis are such that you cant just use a manual or instructions like mfi cabinets!

I think there is a certain nack for a lot of the proceedures, that yes youve got to do it to learn it, but do you really want to be experimenting on your own bike.

I know what you are saying but it's really only nuts, bolts and pieces of metal at the end of the day. Why dont you bring your bike up to my house and i can have a wee practice on yours before i do mine :lol:

[andyb]

:lol::lol: you got all the special tools as well??:lol:

[Davieravie]

Soon! Just after i've broken into the local dealer.:D. An old school friend is an instructor at a local college and i dont want to keep bothering him for niff/naff stuff.

[Davieravie]

Here anyway. Has no one seen "Flight of the Pheniox?":lol:

[bike mad]

dont know if it's the same as 999 but you need a mathis and all the stuff that goes with it, theres alot in the severs that needs a mathis,:flame::burn:

[duck]

iv'e just bought a 749 workshop manual on cd for a fiver through ebay. should be here this morning i'll let you know if it's any good, shes friendly and seems the honest type. her ebay ID is fastestgsxrbabe. she may have some more?

[Davieravie]

Originally posted by duck
iv'e just bought a 749 workshop manual on cd for a fiver through ebay. should be here this morning i'll let you know if it's any good, shes friendly and seems the honest type. her ebay ID is fastestgsxrbabe. she may have some more?


Sounds good. Let us know, cheers duck

[duck]

would you adam and eve it she sent the wrong one! i got the 748/916 manual instead.
if it's the same it's about 500 pages long, looks offical and contains pretty much everything but it's pain to use as every step is written in about 5 languages so you couldnt just print off the english version. i'm gonna try and get the right one but it would be a slow process using it, come on haynes sort it out!