[Ducati] Removing Crankshaft

[Rich Roberts]

Bunchs of us have gone down this road before. We'll help out with words of advice as the need arises. It would be good to review the procedure for setting the crank, do you have dial indicators and the like and can check endplay? Lots of Duc cranks are too tight. I deburred the inside of my cases while apart, you still find bits of casting flash about the inside and outside. Might want to swap out for lightened bits while at it, Falicon or others could balance lighten polish for not huge wads of cash, do rods, pistons and fluywhel etc as part of that and get balanced assembly. Also gives you chance to realy set squish with base gaskets and head gasket. I use lead solder to check and then have used Cometic to make special gaskets, does not take alot of compression increase to make a better motor. I set squish as I recall to right around .040", that is about as close as you can go, I think some get down to .038" or something but even .040 is pretty close. Rich
Barry <musical at interbaun.com> wrote:  I own a 1998 916 and after talking to Guy Martin of Brickwood perfromance,
and explaining the history of my bike, he said it would be in my best
interest to remove my crankshaft and have it inspected mainly for the
aluminum Galley plug which have a tendency to back out of the crank and
cause extreme grief.

So I do have a fair amount of experience since I have done a engine swap
last year with this bike putting in the 916 engine and removing the 748 that
I used to have. I am close to the point of removing the engine and splitting
the case. I have never gone this far before. I feel a little intimidated but
I am taking it slow filming things that I feel will help me when its time
for reassemble.

My question is what can I expect going this far, will I need any other
special tools to remove the crank, will I run into problems doing the
reassemble myself. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks

Barry



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