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 26-Sep-2006, 12:01 | #2 |
| Registered Forum User Ducati in my Blood Bikes: Diavel, very non-std black & white ;)  Posts: 4,701 Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Over there Mood: Lucky? For some, maybe! | |
| 26-Sep-2006, 12:22 | #3 | |
| DSC Club Member BSB Star  Posts: 6,930 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Bedfordshire Mood: MT Meglomaniac Quote:
Ducatis don't need mods to beat up their rockers, they can manage that by themselves. I am concerned about this though, especially after finding a tiny sliver of something that weren't magnetic on my gauze filter when I changed the oil on my 888. I know that T8's aren't supposed to suffer but then it's supposed to affect 996's more than 748's. By my reckoning it could apply to any four valver (especially if earlier rockers were replaced by some from the chocolate wrapper chroming period). I dunno why somebody hasn't sorted a mod by now, according to Sigma it's caused by the lethargic way that oil gets up to the cams on start up (as much as 30 seconds apparently). Surely it wouldn't be hard to devise a little secondary oil circuit with an electric pump that just feeds a couple of small diameter oil lines that run up to each cylinder head? The 'leccy pump could mebbe relay off the same circuit as the fuel pump so that it squirted a dollop of oil on the cams as the fuel pump primed? The Patent Jools Mood Meter -Today I am:           ___________^ | ||
| 26-Sep-2006, 12:04 | #4 |
| Registered Forum User Ducati Corse  Posts: 3,555 Join Date: May 2001 Location: North Yorkshire Mood: R U thinking what I'm thinking?......Oh dear! | |
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