Ducati 250 Desmo Rebuild

New pistons (teflon coated!! Oooh!)
 

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Main seals in and pistons in with a good coating of Brembo brake grease to help them bed, same with the dust seals. It all goes together lovely with that slippy grease :D
 

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Don't forget the important little O ring to seal the caliper half's :rob
 

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Back together with shiny new bolts and stainless steel bleed nipples - it's not tightened up yet, I'll probably do that on the bike as according to my old BMW Clymer manual the torque setting is ft-lb 43-46, Brembo themselves keep it a secret :rolleyes: :blast
 

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Just seen this pop up on Ebay ....

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ducati-2...971951?hash=item33e565956f:g:v0UAAOSwipdasXic



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Very rare to see one come up on eBay Chris, it's got issues but nothing that can't be fixed, I'm very likely going for points ignition just because it's easier to maintain, I think this one needs the same
 
Buy it and break it :green gri

You’d certainly make money on it because parts for them are like rocking horse shit.
 
In the kitchen - Best place:D

I used to keep mine in my bedroom, which was the front room of a shared 2 up 2 down in Oxford, which did little for neither my love life nor my relationship with my house mates - a couple - although luckily 'he' was - and still is - a biker. They're still married - grandparents now! - and we're still in touch!

Meanwhile that does look a jolly good buy. Funnily enough I was daydreaming about my keeping my Mk III, which I owned from '76 until '78, I would have done a similar transformation.

Regs

Simon
 
Ducati Scrambler

Saw this up at Red Marley today, (Eater Monday as usu), thought you might like to see it... Its a 350 and was ridden pretty well.
 

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Saw this up at Red Marley today, (Eater Monday as usu), thought you might like to see it... Its a 350 and was ridden pretty well.

That's nice! Gotta be something useful to do on the second most boring day of the year - the other being Good Friday - as most bars were closed even here in Spain!

Simon
 
Still waiting for the wheels...

I didn't have much hope for the Verlicchi twist grip but it's actually turned out very nice, sometimes it's good to be plastic. The fittings were all well rusted and the rubber grip is perished to near biscuit hardness. Still, after a good clean up with a tooth brush and new stainless steel fittings it looks like new (the spring is just chrome steel). I haven't decided on grips, I think the OE Verlicchi ones with the bobbles would annoy me
 

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Rear chain adjusters. I had intended getting the originals re chromed but after a quick clean up I found one was part stripped (bottom left, middle of the thread). A new set was found in America (Guzzino.com) and shipped over. Nice guy to deal with and fast too.

The new ones do look nice :D
 

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Still waiting for the wheels...

I didn't have much hope for the Verlicchi twist grip but it's actually turned out very nice, sometimes it's good to be plastic. The fittings were all well rusted and the rubber grip is perished to near biscuit hardness. Still, after a good clean up with a tooth brush and new stainless steel fittings it looks like new (the spring is just chrome steel). I haven't decided on grips, I think the OE Verlicchi ones with the bobbles would annoy me

Very nice piece of work. I suppose you know all about the hairspray trick?

Simon
 


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