Rolling refresh - gauze screen help!

yellowfever · Today, 05:24 PM

As I’m doing the oil line mod I removed them and the oil cooler. I taped up the cooler oil nipples and cleaned the cooler externally with S100 and a toothbrush and rinsed off with water and dried it. My cooler is not in bad shape considering but whilst at it I took the time to straighten the various fins using wide grip plastic tweezers (fins v delicate and I found tweezers worked well as you could gently squeeze the fins between them to help straighten them out without too much distortion). Hopefully the Mr Gazza productions oil coller protective mesh screen I’ll be fitting will keep the worst of the dings off it in the future.

For the mod I’ll be fitting a new oil delivery line from a Hypermotard which routes alongside the return line round the alternator side to clean up the timing side. I’ll be using the existing return line so, even though they looked OK, I renewed the double vitron o rings at each end of the return line as they’re 18 years old and cheap enough. That way both oil lines have new o rings. I’ll be using some plastic oil line clips (an official part from a different Ducati model) to keep pipes clipped together securely next to each other without touching/rubbing. There was a recall on one Ducati model some years back due to oil lines rubbing and potentially causing a dangerous oil leak, so I thought I may as well do it properly.

At this point I was going to refit the lines and cooler and refill the oil and be done. But I’m sure we all identify with the Peter Falk Columbo tendency - ‘just one more thing” whilst I’m at it tendency. In my case the starter motor paint cried out to me. It has been sandblasted off in some places by the front wheel spray (with an untouched bit in between the bare patches where the oil line protects it) and it was showing some minor signs of rust. Ideally I had wanted to take this off and paint it properly (not least as these are not cheap to replace). But it’s fairly involved to do that, so it will have to wait until some more full on resto in the years to come.. In the meantime I made do with sanding off the rust, masking up the bike and painting what I could in situ (essentially just the front bit that gets the worst of the spray. Thanks to my crap masking the first time it now has a truly excessive 10 coats of black hammerite spray paint on it. 4-5 coats is considered plenty for a resilient finish, but after taking off the masking after 5 coats I realised I’d over masked one side a bit leaving it looking a bit stupid. So one re-mask and 5 more coats later the missed bit has 5 coats and the central bit most in the line of fire has 10. That should do it!

The end result, I’m no painter but happy enough with this.

Once fully dry it’s back to refitting cooler/oil line mod and refilling oil and I’m done (for now)!

Today, 05:24 PM	#1
yellowfever Bronze Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: London Bike: S2r 1000 Posts: 240	As I’m doing the oil line mod I removed them and the oil cooler. I taped up the cooler oil nipples and cleaned the cooler externally with S100 and a toothbrush and rinsed off with water and dried it. My cooler is not in bad shape considering but whilst at it I took the time to straighten the various fins using wide grip plastic tweezers (fins v delicate and I found tweezers worked well as you could gently squeeze the fins between them to help straighten them out without too much distortion). Hopefully the Mr Gazza productions oil coller protective mesh screen I’ll be fitting will keep the worst of the dings off it in the future. For the mod I’ll be fitting a new oil delivery line from a Hypermotard which routes alongside the return line round the alternator side to clean up the timing side. I’ll be using the existing return line so, even though they looked OK, I renewed the double vitron o rings at each end of the return line as they’re 18 years old and cheap enough. That way both oil lines have new o rings. I’ll be using some plastic oil line clips (an official part from a different Ducati model) to keep pipes clipped together securely next to each other without touching/rubbing. There was a recall on one Ducati model some years back due to oil lines rubbing and potentially causing a dangerous oil leak, so I thought I may as well do it properly. At this point I was going to refit the lines and cooler and refill the oil and be done. But I’m sure we all identify with the Peter Falk Columbo tendency - ‘just one more thing” whilst I’m at it tendency. In my case the starter motor paint cried out to me. It has been sandblasted off in some places by the front wheel spray (with an untouched bit in between the bare patches where the oil line protects it) and it was showing some minor signs of rust. Ideally I had wanted to take this off and paint it properly (not least as these are not cheap to replace). But it’s fairly involved to do that, so it will have to wait until some more full on resto in the years to come.. In the meantime I made do with sanding off the rust, masking up the bike and painting what I could in situ (essentially just the front bit that gets the worst of the spray. Thanks to my crap masking the first time it now has a truly excessive 10 coats of black hammerite spray paint on it. 4-5 coats is considered plenty for a resilient finish, but after taking off the masking after 5 coats I realised I’d over masked one side a bit leaving it looking a bit stupid. So one re-mask and 5 more coats later the missed bit has 5 coats and the central bit most in the line of fire has 10. That should do it! The end result, I’m no painter but happy enough with this. Once fully dry it’s back to refitting cooler/oil line mod and refilling oil and I’m done (for now)!