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[psychlist]

Originally Posted by Stu748R

Sorry guys,that was supossed to be jokey comment.

But we're not old enough to know about Mods & Rockers, I'll have to ask my Dad

[Jools]

Originally Posted by psychlist

But we're not old enough to know about Mods & Rockers, I'll have to ask my Dad

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?