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Originally Posted by 900Rebuilder
Good to hear about the 888 arms as that's what I'll be running if I can locate the correct hugger  |
As long as you keep an eye on it should be OK, the problem part is the cast bit welded into the end of the tube, Ducati changed the grade of alloy, the casting process and amended the design somewhere around 1990/1 and the later arms don't crack, the production non - braced arms also cracked but it was always claimed that the pinch bolts were over torqued and not that there was a problem in manufacture
For what amounted to quite a short production cycle, there are actually quite a lot of those braced arms about, reason being they were changed almost every race because of the cracking so teams went through 100's of them
Also had a similar problem with the SS swingarm but they useually cracked on the shock mount