This bike belonged to a mate of mine who was dying of cancer and really had a bit too much on his mind to care for the bike properly. But i will tell you he did have a good time on it. Clearly he throttled it when he was alive 😂. Now I’ve got it and I would love to see it back on the road. @desmowerx was the only man brave enough to have a go!!! Loving the progress! If anyone wants to donate parts I’ll put your name on the side of the tank as part of a custom respray at the end!
A very worth while reason for restoring the bike, you have the best person to do it, Nelly clearly likes a challenge, consider starting a 'go fund me' I am sure you would get some support. Drop the engine Nelly, far easier on the bench, if anyone can bring this bike back you can.
After being released from my retainment period by his kings men I managed to start my 1098 after it standing for 18months.unfortunatly on a tanks worth of fuel it manage to burn most of the engine oil.im no mechanic but after watching you videos a few times it's given me the confidence to remove the engine to find the cause. Thanks for posting vids...
Great video as always, this bike has clearly been left outside and neglected. By the way the intake tube bolts are not correct that's why the tube mounting point got damaged.
Great to see another video mate. The bike has a lot of small issues but with some time and elbow grease it will come up a treat. Always a shame to see a bike in such a state but it’s going to make for a very interesting set of videos and I look forward to seeing what’s wrong with it. One of my 1098,s has the engine out at the moment so I would appreciate to see your method of removing and also re-installing the engine when it comes time
I'd be interested to see how difficult it is to take the heads off with the engine still in. I have a feeling that will teach us that it's easier to just drop the whole engine even if we only need to do head work lol.
Long time, no see. so glad you're back - have always enjoyed your videos. For me definitely drop the engine first. I don't think it's much different *(in difficulty) from the 748 which I did on my own, and it just makes sense as the access is so much easier for everything. Looks like the front exhaust studs have left a little sticking out, so a straightforward weld nut on to then remove? Very interested to learn what the issue is. Bizarre that someone is prepared to let a bike get into such a state, then being prepared to pay, what is going to be a large bill to get it sorted. Bonkers
Glad to be back and thanks for watching, I think the nut welding route is the easiest way forward forward for the studs. See the pinned post for the bikes background, its worth saving if it can be done 😊
That's interesting, the providence of a bike is always good to know. Yes the welded nut on trick has always worked well for me. I think the high temp also helps break the corrosion down in the threads. I learned from using oxy-acetylene how the rust on steel to steel parts breaks down - sort of almost goes to a dust. Happy days and once again, thank you
Re removing the heads in-situ - yeah would be interesting to see it done that way….If I got to the the point of needing to do this, however, I’d more than likely be done with it and drop the whole engine…especially with this one…”basket case”….hoping the current owner didn’t pay too much (anything) for it? Another interesting video though Nelly, great to see you making more content, always enjoy watching the projects.
Drop the engine - based on what we've seen so far you'll likely find more issues once the heads are removed and the engine will need to come out anyway.
nice tear down ... sure seems this bike has suffered from the elements ... be interesting to see what things look like when the heads come off. Re next steps, realling comes down to the expectation of going deeper into the cases
Hey desmowerx when i took apart my ducati 848 to replace half of the crankcase i used your videos and they helped alot long story short the duc 848 runs perfectly again. One small issue. While removing inspecting and replacing everything i noticed that one of my valves on my cylinder heads had a very small thin hairline crack on it ); i didnt want to replace due to my lack of experience and i had already done so much work to it i wanted to make sure it started back up before tackling that job. But the bike starts up and runs just how it use to but that hairline crack is a ticking time bomb i need to fix. ASAP. Im gonna have to disassemble the whole cylinder head down to the smallest componenents i will let you know the outcome once i get there thank you for everything
The hairline craxk was so thin very thin but it was visible to the naked eye. And i was able to feel it when i scratched it with my finger nail. I worry about the valve shattering t pieces everytime i start the bike up but so far so good. It is located on the disc shape of the valve. Im 25 and i am gonna take on this job wish me luck
Good luck, its a brave move to put a defective valve back in and leave it there. Its not too hard to replace the valves on a Ducati once the head is off 😊
@@DesmoWerx yes and i dont mean i put it back in there. I mean i never replaced it because of not knowing how to dissassemble everything that a ducati head has in it . I basicalley took the motor apart and took heads off but left the cylinder head intact. Not removing anygears or components from it. When i put evrrything back together i didnt replace the valve. I just took note that it was a job for the future , sadly the future is now );
Question for you when you are doing these tear down if you see a crank bearing that’s failed how often do you find more internal damage? Was told I can change these out but it’s essentially going to be an engine rebuild. Trying to decide if I should do that or get a new engine
It would really depend on how badly they have failed, if its catastrophic then it could have damaged something else. Most of the time I change them as the engine is apart so its a good chance to change them as the cases are split, only dealt with a small number of failures and they had no impact on any other part.
Not a leak cause typically in a direct fashion but a damaged valve guide could stop the valve operating correctly, it would certainly lead to excessive oil use as well.
