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Desmosedici Rebuild

Discussion in 'D16 Desmosedici RR' started by Robarano, Sep 5, 2018.

  1. Nah, that had plugs in. That's how mine sounds when cranking, it had compression. :thinkingface:
     
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  2. Job one should be sorting the rusty rivets on the headstock plaque. :confused: They're doing my head in. :mad:
     
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  3. Job 2 should have been to check the coolant, for sludge and rust particles, and for carbon monoxide particles to see if head/gasket or porous heads or contamination.
     
  4. I know the video is about the desmo, but in part 3 while visiting the Ducati factory at 2:22 in the video, you could see a clay model being worked on in the background. It looked liked a V4, but with under tail exhaust like the 1299FE/SL, so new V4R or new supersport?
     
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  5. Episodes 1-3 being shown on Frontrunner(Sky 431) this week.
    4pm today + rpts.
     
  6. Episode 4 went upon YouTube today:

     
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  7. Was that a hard metal drift used on a threaded end to knock out swingarm pin?
     
  8. Whens the next episode ?
     
  9. Been a while since part 4 - bigger job than they expected???
     
  10. Waiting on parts probably.....
     
  11. Gone very quiet here.
     
  12. Part 5 now on YT...

     
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  13. Next few installments should be interesting.
     
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  14. Part 6 is now on YouTube. Sorry don't know how to do the linky thing :confused:
     
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  16. They don't prime them in the factory race shop. Saw a demonstration where oil pressure was established sooner when the filter was not primed/
     
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  17. I would struggle to believe the 159rwhp

    On paper my 1299 makes about the same as a D16. It certainly accelerates quicker now I have the 1199R chain and sprocket set. My D16 is the only bike I have owned that accelerated so fast that it made my eyes water. So the 150 doesn’t seem right to me
     
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  18. They are taking their god damn time with this. :eyes:
     
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  19. I'm shocked they just seem to be going at it freestyle, rather than doing what every self respecting amateur mechanic does, by peering quizzically at a Haynes manual before hammering an imperial socket onto a metric fastener rather than popping down to Halfrauds to buy the correct size.
     
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  20. Nah, an amateur mechanic would start stripping it down, then put it in boxes for the next 25 years and then put it on eBay as a project. :eyes:
     
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