Sv is gone but new bike bought within 3 hours.

Belts, valve clearance checks need doing properly and stamps or receipts for next owner.. If you plan to sell it any time soon. I still do the rest of the service stuff like oil changes, brakes etc on my own Duke.
Got Ducati receipts for all the service stuff tho.. even the one's for daft stuff like relays and switches!
A folder full of books and lots of bits of paper going back to day one makes for a happy owner.


P.s... there's going to be 5 Ducati track night's up the hill next year, I'm planning to be there for at least 1 if i don't sell it first

I've always serviced my cars and bikes myself i'm an aircraft engineer by trade so i'm pretty confident i'm not going to wreck it. Any monkey can swap the cambelts its seriously like a 30 min job the hardest part is setting the tension correctly and the valve clearances are not difficult either. I've kept the receipts for the items replaced and i make a little record of whats been done i'm not paying circa £700 for somebody else to do it for me.

The only bits i cant do are the stuff that needs the mathesis dealer only tool like the tb balanceing and the tps zero'd which i will have to pay to get done as well as getting the service reminder light turned off.

Found out the root of the problem as to the poor running now.

when i swapped the plugs i found this on the rear cylinder



I'll hopefully be doing as many trackdays as possible next year

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by ianofbhills

Found out the root of the problem as to the poor running now.

when i swapped the plugs i found this on the rear cylinder

did you find the rest of it?

Nah which i was a bit worried about. I had the bike in work and i used a video probe that we use for checking the internals of aero engines. I had a look down the spark plug hole and back up through the exhaust and its all clear and looks very normal.

something that small will have just whizzed sraight out of the exhaust.

gonna pull the plugs again after i've ran it for a bit just to make sure its not a fueling issue causing that cylinder to run lean.

I'm surprised it even ran on both cylinders tbh with a spark plug gap like that its no wonder it was running poorly.

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by ianofbhills

Nah which i was a bit worried about. I had the bike in work and i used a video probe that we use for checking the internals of aero engines. I had a look down the spark plug hole and back up through the exhaust and its all clear and looks very normal.

something that small will have just whizzed sraight out of the exhaust.

probably, did the bore look ok and smooth? i'm impressed it managed to expel something like that, it certainly wouldn't have helped the smooth running of the engine having a gap like that

Bore and everything looked fine. Gonna compression check it anyway just to make sure.

[the_lone_wolf]

sounds good, hope it sorts out the running problems, the bike looks awesome

Surprised it ran at all with that plug

Nice bike Ian

[DarrenSV650S]

Bloody ell
What would cause that? cheap plugs?

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

Bloody ell

My thoughts exactly.

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

What would cause that? cheap plugs?

Wouldn't have thought so, they're Champion plugs. Not much wrong with them. Ham-fisted gap adjustment perhaps, or dropped on the garage floor prior to (re)fitting would be my guess.

If only all fixes were quite so easy eh?

Hopefully she's sounding like a healthier tractor now Ian - and pulling like a train You may post another vid clip of the idle now if you REALLY want to. We don't mind.


Garry