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| Originally Posted by YMFB
What I need to know is how the hell it happened, why did it work loose, how can I prevent it occuring again and is there a better alternative to the Ducati chain adjusters.
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Vibration. In giving us the grunt, drive and noise we all love, big V-twins vibrate quite a bit. The chain adjusters on ST's (and monsters and 888's for that matter) can work loose quite easily, as you've just found out.
I've got into the habit now of taking a 12mm spanner to them everytime I lube the chain and just making sure they're nipped up before the ride.
You can replace the bolt with a length of stud of the same size thread and loctite it into the chain adjuster, then use a locknut arrangement or a nyloc nut, but I don't think that looks very pretty so I prefer to just keep checking