[Ducati] 1/2 dead duc

[Ronald Betts]

Wendell, make sure your connections are clean and dry. Plug them in and make 
sure they are tight. Spray Aqua Net around the connector, use moderation as 
the stuff will get inside the connector and youre back to square one. I 
learned this trick years ago off road riding and puddle jumping in 
particular after a rain. Good Fun. Af course my Mom was always after me for 
using her hair spray.



Peace...Ron"Desmohead"Betts 95 900 SP
I've learned that I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy it!





>From: "Wendell S. Martin" <WENDELL at amcoprod.com>
>Reply-To: Ducati Owners Group <ducati at ducati.net>
>To: <Ducati at ducati.net>
>Subject: [Ducati] 1/2 dead duc
>Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 08:46:31 -0500
>
>
>
>I determined that it is the front cylinder which is dead.  When I
>started it this morning, both were running and so I started to pull out
>of the building.  But before I could get going, the front died again.
>I have now removed the coil from each head and swapped them.  The once
>dead cylinder's coil works fine on the vertical cylinder and the
>horizontal cylinder is still dead.   I discovered that wiggling the
>wires leading to the three wire connector on the coil of the front
>cylinder awakens it.   Broken wire or bad connector connection?
>	I cut the wires leading into the female connector and then
>pierced each of the three wires with a pin to make a connection back at
>the point where the wires join the loom.   I then connected the
>multimeter to cut end of each wire and bent and wiggled each to see if
>there was a break.  NO, there was none.  All three were good.  I
>disassembled the female connector, surgically removed the existing
>crimped wires and soldered the cut wires back in place. YEE haw.   I am
>big twin again.
>    My next concern was whether I had contaminated the oil by spraying
>gas into the dead cylinder.  The oil smelled good and it was low in the
>sight glass.  So,  I think not much if any got past the rings.  I
>changed the oil anyway and Now I am going for a ride.
>	The surface of the coils and the holes they fit in were quite
>oxidized.  I smeared grease on them when I put them back in but I want
>to know if someone has devised a good plan to prevent the oxidation.
>There is nothing worse for oxidizing than a humid hole.  As an engineer,
>I face this dilemma in the soft drink bottling industry  (very wet
>environment)  If you try and seal something, and any moisture gets by,
>the seal makes the situation worse because the moisture is trapped.  It
>is kind of like your tonsils.  When they are doing their job, they are
>great but they don't just quit, they join the other side.
>I will post after the ride today.
>Wendell
>
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