I have the bike on center stand, 1st gear wheel turning and the noise is so ever present
De : st2_owners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:st2_owners@yahoogroups.com] De la part de Jack Ward
Envoyé : Saturday, November 26, 2011 3:05 PM
À : st2_owners@yahoogroups.com
Objet : Re: [DucatiST] St 1999
It sounds like a worn out clutch through my laptop speakers. Just the normal sounds, really.
That being said, did the bike die when it fell over? Was the gearshift lever knocked into gear when it fell over? It is possible that if it were knocked into gear, the shift pawl pivot could have moved slightly and caused the drum not to return to its proper position. In that case it is possible that two or more grears are trying to partially engage and the dogs are slightly touching the adjacent slots in the gear face and causing a tapping/clunking/banging sound that you are hearing. Worse case scenario is a bent shift fork causing it that will require a teardown to fix. If it is just the shift pawl, any qualified Ducati mechanic can drain the coolant, tip the bike to the right and remove the alternator cover, flywheel/rotor and reposition the pawl, re-torque it with threadlocker and then re-torque the flywheel nut to spec.
It is possible that nothing of what I just described is happening, but I have little to go on, since the bike is not right in front of me. I say go to a shop you trust and ask a Duc mechanic what he thinks the noise is.
Did you say the noise increased as you were up-shifting the bike on the road?
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Jack Ward
'00 ST4 Ducati (New Street)
'92 750ss Ducati (Restoration Project)
'63 H-D Panhead (Old Ratbike)
Now in Woodstock, GA, USA
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