Lucky Phil

I love my granite plate Chuck, I bought it at an auction along with another which I gave to a mate that has an engineering business. As a matter of fact the image of the gaskets is taken on the protective cover for the plate. I also have another 2 steel plates about 2/3 the size of the granite one. One of these plates has a purpose made holder that has a role of wet and dry that you feed onto it and the paper clamps down onto the plate so you can flatten things on it, lovely. The advantage of the granit plate is that even if it gets damaged it will chip but still be flat unlike a steel plate that if damaged will have a raised part at the damage location. Ciao

Sorry I think I missed the first page of this thread and thought thelonewonder had bought the Grisso,hence my question about the roller motor which had been covered on page 1,doh. I'm a bit shocked that it was mid 2012 that they went to roller lifters, that long ago. My memory isnt getting any better obviously. Ciao

I used to think mine was the same, just one of those character details. Till someone reminded me that I could flatten them on a piece of plate glass. Stopped the weep.But I would prefer to have the reusable vitron gaskets that fit on the Griso I recently had the opportunity to check a piece of 10mm flat plate glass on my granite surface plate expecting it to be dead flat, it wasnt. Turns out it was around 0.002" out over about a 400mm length. Just for info purposes as I was led to believe a piece of float plate glas was dead flat. Would be fine to flatten a rocker cover though I would think. Ciao What !! This was a 1/2” thick, sorry 12.7 mm thick piece & I had it laying on the machined part of my sawtable. That’s as true as it gets in my shop. But good to know. It all depends on the degree of precision needed I guess. Yea, I was disappointed to find it wasnt dead flat as well. Ciao

New Zealand converted to metric in 1976, and despite predictions, we didn't revert to the dark ages. Australia got started in 1971, which probably was the reason that NZ got motivated.There are still 3 countries left on the planet who haven't officially adopted metric. However, there is plenty of room for non-metric measurements, for example the Helen, used as a unit of beauty. Helen of Troy is known as "the face that launched a thousand ships". Thus, 1 millihelen is the amount of beauty needed to launch a single ship. Derived units such as the negative Helen (the power to beach ships) also exist. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement Also things like a wee dollop, a good biff, a handful, and a decent shot, don't conform to SI. Ha, I'll add the bees @#$$#! (small amount), the smidge, the @#$$#! in a shirt sleeve fit (loose) the grunts measurement of torque,1,2,3 etc, the fracamoondo micromeasurement. Sorry in advance. Ciao

I used to think mine was the same, just one of those character details. Till someone reminded me that I could flatten them on a piece of plate glass. Stopped the weep. But I would prefer to have the reusable vitron gaskets that fit on the Griso I recently had the opportunity to check a piece of 10mm flat plate glass on my granite surface plate expecting it to be dead flat, it wasnt. Turns out it was around 0.002" out over about a 400mm length. Just for info purposes as I was led to believe a piece of float plate glas was dead flat. Would be fine to flatten a rocker cover though I would think. Ciao

Try Pete Roper at Moto Moda ( or send him a PM) or Valpolini. http://www.valpolini.com/index.php/home-en/prodotto?&fID=1574 Sorry I spelt Valpolini with 2 "L's" in the heading. Ciao

Pete Roper kindly sent me a couple of these gaskets for my Grisso valve cover conversion and I thought I would give everyone a look at them. They appear to be a thin metal gasket with a pressure sensitive coating on both sides which is of a matt appearance quite different to the later Ducati rocker cover gaskets which are very much the same as the later Guzzi front crankcase metal gaskets. The later front crankcase gaskets also have a stamped raised profile which these Valpolini ones dont so they are quite different. Shown for comparison is a Later front crankcase gasket, the Valpolini and an original style composite rocker gasket. Pete swears by them which is good enough for me and it should get around the common issue of the composite gaskets breaking for no apparent reason. My last one I changed out about 6 months ago due leaking had for some reason decided to break. I dont overtorque stuff so dont know. Ciao

Well I grew up with both systems as well as a career working on Boeing and Airbus jets so I'm comfortable in both. For bearing clearances and such I tend to think in imperial but for everything else its metric. Larger dimensions ( I mean over about 0.040") are a pain in the arse in Imperial. 65mm is a hell of a lot easier to deal with than 2 and 9/16" for mine. Ciao

I think it might be fuel supply. I wanted to clean the fuel-level sender anyway (because it's not accurate), so I took out the whole pump assembly to get at the fuel-level sender. I found a lot of junk on the fuel pick-up screen. I had the tank propped up for a while, and I suspect that every bit of loose junk in the tank settled around the screen. So I'm gonna replace the filter, pump, and submersible hoses. Hopefully that does the trick. Parts were cheap too - the ducati.ms forum had all the compatible parts identified, for much lower than the dealer prices. Just a note scudd, there are two types of injector fuel hose, submersible and non submersible. Also check the bottom of your tank for rust, The 1000ss tanks seem to rust a bit so the ST3 is worth looking at. Ciao

Where is the issue docc? is moisture ingress likely around the bezel or more the casing? I dont believe totally sealed instruments are any good. I've had 2 bikes that fogged the instruments regularly due to factory sealing and the cure was to drill vent holes in the case where water entry was unlikely. Worked both times with no issues for the instruments, however no sealing around the bezel would be a big problem on a bike. Ciao

Looks good, nice job. You know you could almost certainly mount the GPS antenna inside the tail piece and it will work fine. I fitted a new header with sat nav unit to my old Monaro (Pontiac GTO to you guys) and had the antenna mounted under the dash plastic inside the car where it had to get a signal through the windscreen as well as the dash plastic. Worked fine. Ciao

Well thats disappointing Chuck. I normally like to give the benifit of the doubt but not much care taken here. Its very common these days and I'm running accross it ALL the time to the point its depressing. A case in point. I have a brand new Focus RS with 1100klms on it and Ford has just issued a "customer satisfaction action" to mine and 27000 other Rs's to have the head gaskets replaced due to them fiting the wrong ones in assembly. I wont even go into that here. Checking the workshop manual this is quite a big job to do insitu. The whole front of the engine needs to come off, engine mount,cam chain cover, cam chain and tensioner, even the oil pump drive, then of course the turbo, the Hi pressure fuel pump, vacuum pump etc etc and then you get to pulling the head itself. Interestingly this engine doesnt have a single keyway on anything, cams front cam chain sprocket, engine pully, it relies on friction to hold it all in place. So I'm thinking with all of this I need to trust my brand new car to a Ford dealer tech to pull the engine half to pieces.Hmmmm..........I'm thinking, looks like I have some work to do. I'm not even going to claim warranty on this, I'd rather eat the cost and know its done right. This spring story just confirms my thoughts on getting things done right these days. Lets hope the spring guy steps up this time and they take the care to get it right. Ciao

Is the one you bought a roller motor? Ciao

A proper motorbike shop:) I read something recently about Vincents and it was that Vincent owners dont let anyone apart from other Vincent owners ride their bike because if they did they would realise how bloody overrated they really are. Probably right. I imagine once you've spent crazy money on one you wont be keen to let the cat out of the bag.......IE, theý're very ordinary. Ciao

It passes the "Elegance" test Ciao

Nice one scudd, but I'm not sure about the green vents. Up there with Chucks red fork gators I think. The Ducati gods may take revenge on you:) Ciao Hmm... perhaps I have angered the duck-gods. She gave me a crank-but-no-start right after this. Hopefully fixable this weekend, parts have been delivered. I'm not "sure" about the green vents either. But it's just a wrap that I could remove easily if I want to. Plus, I think it's a better idea than buying a Benelli Tornado. As for geniuses... they don't always dress well. Really? what do you suspect is the no start issue? Hope for me yet then, I can't tick the snappy dresser box I'm afraid. Ciao

Along with the crazy people Chuck Ciao Some times, the difference between crazy and genius is simply a matter of time.. Personally I'm banking on that being the case Chuck:) Ciao

Just want to re-acknowledge the fine work you and Chuck are doing here Scudd. This all takes time and communication and checking and re-affermation and its a process. Thanks again chaps. Ciao

Dear me, and I thought our motto was "The Ride Starts Here!" I should have a banner made for my shop: "The Mistakes Start Here." Best shop banner ever. High quality Fast service Cheap cost Choose any two Ciao

Maybe! My workbench misses having an engine on it. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk BTW your shift lever is hitting the pork chop on the down shifts. Ciao

Now mate this isnt going to be another "rebuilt V11 Sport wont start" 10 pager that ends with "I pulled it all apart found nothing wrong, put it back together and its fine now" deal is it. Ciao

Along with the crazy people Chuck Ciao

Oh, yeah. The material is essentially free. All the money is in the time to make them. I should have just stepped up and made them in the first place. They would have been done and forgotten about by now. It just reminded me entirely too much of work.. and.. a place that does this commercially should be tooled up and be able to make them for considerably less than I can. Its all good Chuck, mistakes are made. Lets see what the spring guy says, Now he knows that the customer will be doing the QC he might be a little more focused on getting the specs spot on. Ciao

Didnt realise we had figured it out! Ciao

Nice one scudd, but I'm not sure about the green vents. Up there with Chucks red fork gators I think. The Ducati gods may take revenge on you:) Ciao