In you’re next post you’re going to tell me they are a fraction of the price and a significant improvement over the originals aren’t you?
Clearly, at £98.52 EACH OEM must be the best I’d never heard of Magnecor but now I have, I shall store that away for next time, thanks Cookie
https://www.sparkplugs.co.uk/magnecor-2538-and-denso-iu27-ducati-996-998 As cookie says they are better.
And MUCH MUCH cheaper . Thanks for the info Steve . I just paid that much for ONE HT lead and €16/spark plug. Ah well, lesson learned.
By the time I’ve paid the €16 courier cost to return it to Moto Rapido and then paid postage on the magnatec ones I may as well keep it and use it. This all started as someone had bought and fitted a non-oem one in the first place, which is 5mm too short . I’ve got it now, may as well use it.
Fitted the VERY EXPENSIVE HT lead and it fits and reaches the spark plug (as it bloody well should). As you can see from the photo it is noticeably longer than the £8 Lancia one that was on there but I have to say and extra £90 for 5-6mm is a bit extortionate . I then fitted the new breather pipe, as the old one a) kept falling off and b) had a big split in it as well. As you can see the correct part (£15) is significantly thicker and sturdier than the part that was on there which I’m assuming is another cheap part from something completely unrelated - top one below. Fuel tank back on, ignition on, thumb the starter - no start . Try again and again and again, eventually it fires. Run it for a bit, it’s a bit lumpy, I’ll post a video shortly, several backfires & flames but I kinda think all is not as it should be. Switch off. Just by sheer chance I happen to touch the horizontal c exhaust, hot, but not so hot you can’t touch it. After doing a few checks the problem now seems to be the injectors aren’t firing consistently . Sometimes neither fire - hence the no start, then only the vertical cylinder one is firing and the horizontal cylinder one isn’t, apart from sporadically. All suggestions as to what the fault may be gratefully received .
Started stripping the injector circuit apart at 12.30 today to see if I could find the reason for the intermittent injector fire. By 13.15 it was cured, back together and running on both cylinders . Cause? Someone in the past has pulled the wire rather than the connector block on the horizontal injector. Thus the 2 connectors were not making full contact with the blades in the injector as they’d been pulled back too far into the block. Reseated them, made sure they made contact, job jobbed. vertical cylinder Horizontal cylinder
Now for the next thing . Someone please tell me this is ok. Having got it running, it’s running on fast idle whilst it warms up, admittedly I’m blipping the throttle a bit but not above 5k. I happen to notice the exhausts are red hot, likely really really red hot. Never seen that before. It’s normal right - he says hopefully - or is it a sign she’s running far too rich?
Yeah, how can you tell ? Is it obvious? Should I stop applying hourly? The Don recommended it, made in the good old US of A so it’s gotta be good right?
Seen that before on a 250 Kawasaki twin I was given, turned out to be incorrect plugs in that case. ( I so wanted to say it turned out to be the HT leads, but that would have been cruel).
It's normally a sign of the timing out, running rich would make run cooler, a lean mix hotter, never seen that on a Ducati only older brit bikes with timing out.
