Oh and not sure if it makes any difference but my bike is used all year round every week unless snow and ice on the ground.So rockers never get dry due to long periods of storage. Then again with good oil like motul 300v some members have found rockers still coated in the green stuff after 3 or 4 months non use. Those super Electraeon rockers from USA Kato posted up look like a good fix although expensive.However will these super hard rockers wear camshafts instead with long term use.
Oil on the rockers is something else to think about during winter storage/ should I start my bike in winter.
If it isn't it's a very good try. No no the NC rockers work fine with Ducati shims if you use standard retainers. Dukedesmo has fitted MPB retainers, much better but different. Good image at the end of page one.
I think the whole rocker issue thing will rumble on and on and I really do sympathise with anyone who has issues. The reasons and theories are varied and well discussed but for me now largely irrelevant. This time around I have enough gone at the same time so cost doesn’t affect the decision and as others have done already I’m might as well try and solve it and not just fix it. Are NC the answer? I don’t know but they do look very promising.
Not sure really, I will do on occasion and run it until the fan chimes in to make sure it’s up to temp. But is that better than one cold start in the spring? I don’t know. What I do know is it sounds especially good on a frozen January and that’s probably 90% of why I do it. I will turn the belts frequently though, it might not make any odds but it seems valid in my mind.
So this Newman cams rocker repair seems a really good bargain and long term fix. Last time my bike was in for a service they replaced all the valve collects but I should have gone the MBP route with second thoughts like Dukedesmo. All I can say regarding starting is I start and ride my bike regularly during winter.If its iced over then as Ian748 states it sounds damn nice just to start up .I also do lots of short trips under 20 miles.Covered it in road salt during winter riding.Washed it with Karcher pressure washer.Ie everything that some folks on here advise against.Others have wrapped there bikes in cotton wool and used once in a blue moon and had far more trouble so I guess it really is pot luck when buying ducati bikes.
Main cause is poor quality of manufacture then there are many theries as to how best to reduce chances of it happening. If left to long it wears the cam lobe resulting in replacement cams.
