Sports: RE: [DucatiST] St 1999

Andre. I'm as stumped as every on else as to the noise. An old trick that you might use is get a length of tubing and put one end to your ear and then the other at different spots on the bike and see if you can narrow down the location...use it it like a poor mand stethoscope. Or get an old wodden broom handle or similar and do the same thing.

Put the end at the left case side and see if there is an inordinate amount of noise and then the same on the clutch side but against the case, not the clutch cover. Also pop the cover off the clutch and see if anything is awry inside it.

Other than that, find someone near by with a Duc to cpmpare to or find a Duc mechanic to see what they think it is.

G'luck...Hopper

--- On Wed, 11/23/11, Andre Gagnon <andre.ga@videotron.ca> wrote:

From: Andre Gagnon <andre.ga@videotron.ca>
Subject: RE: [DucatiST] St 1999
To: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 5:28 AM

De : st2_owners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:st2_owners@yahoogroups.com] De la part de Nick Woods
Envoyé : Tuesday, November 22, 2011 11:09 PM
À : st2_owners@yahoogroups.com
Objet : Re: [DucatiST] St 1999

--- In st2_owners@yahoogroups.com, Andre Gagnon <andre.ga@...> wrote:
>
> I have checked all connections to all headers they seem tight. What it does
> it that once the clutch is depressed the noise is normal at idle.

Andre; Not to be rude to you, but it does just sound like a 'normal' noisy Ducati clutch that perhaps you didn't notice before? If the noise is not there when riding, we can dismiss a loose clutch centre (I recently had that, and a loose alternator, on my Monster, and it sounded terrible all the time). It does sound like a normal Ducati noise but a lot louder. I cannot be wear and tear the bike has approx 3500 miles on it eventhouth is a 1999.

Returning to your original post; I don't think anyone has identified the plastic component you mentioned that went missing. If your levers are the originals, I can only think of a micro-swith inboard of the lever, as fitted to the front brake. You'd notice loose wires, but it would have no effect on the engine at all, only removing one of the fail-safe gear-engagement interlocks. I don't think my '99 ST4 has one on the clutch, but different markets have different specs.

Good luck with sorting your problem!

NickW, UK