Ducati tank sucking...

[tommygun]

Cheers Mate.

I went and checked my tank on the 800ss. Its all good and real clean down the bottom that I could see. Thanks for the heads up and I will be keeping an eye on that in the future. Good info!

[flyingcrocodile46]

wouldnt worry bout what DB has to say Volty................the guy is obviously so insecure that he has to call himself Dangerous Bastard and write favourable comments about himself in his signature cause he thinks it will give him some sort of street cred............when the reality is we all know he has to rely on a bunch of six year olds and their pocket money for his income stream....how embarressing.......no wonder he can only afford to ride a hyoDUNG..................and now hes posting pics of his girlfriend................fuck.......what next

[Kickaha]

Last night I took off the tankbag and to my horror I saw that the tank had imploded on itself.

That is Gods way of telling you the only true Ducati is one with bevels and not some funny rubber band thingys driving the cams

[Voltaire]

That is Gods way of telling you the only true Ducati is one with bevels and not some funny rubber band thingys driving the cams

I thought God rode British....
he even gave Moses one...

" Moses came down from the mountain upon his Triumph.....

Bevel was supposed to go on that trip but God got in there and sheared the speedo drive and made the wheel bearings notchy.....
Hmmmm a Darmah with a rubber band engine would make a nice retro bike......
Was that yours in the pic of it being lifted onto a boat?

[Kickaha]

Hmmmm a Darmah with a rubber band engine would make a nice retro bike......

Blasphemy, you'll be consigned to the halls of hell along with the Moto Guzzi riders for that comment

Was that yours in the pic of it being lifted onto a boat?

Yes it was, I sold it about 97-98 after 6 years and knocking up about 50K on it, recently it was up for sale again and immigrated to Ozstralia

I really liked the Darmah except for the shitty 15l tank which with the 40mm carbs meant 160-180km you were looking for a gas station and hammered you'd be getting nervous about 140km

[Bikemad]

Strangely amusing...

look .........im sorry MSTRS...............i have to take exception with you there.....................you seem to imply that DB was born of this world...........whereas i and many others it would seem tend to think he was shot onto a shithouse wall and left to hatch in the sun

[MSTRS:Me]

I imply nothing.
















































But now that you mention it...

[Mom]

If it was gravity fed carbs it would have been cutting out after a few miles, I had noticed the odd spit and more recently it had been cutting out at " interesting' moments.
But intermittent problems are hard to track down and I usually leave them to become more apparent.

My suggestion here is that its worth having a peek into the tank to see whats there.
I have used POR 15 before on my Kombi tank and your right its good stuff but masking is needed and its hard to remove from fuel lines unless you set it up to drain correctly.

Hmmmm...raining.....was going to go to the tip with the green waste....get some mulch ( or summit) and have a hoe down in the garden...

My bike played up in a most frustrating and annoying way for ages, no amount of fiddling, changing spark plugs etc made any difference to the way it ran. Then some very wise person suggested it might be rust in the tank and hey presto a win.

Good fun playing with POR 15 too

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ely-a-Blow-Job

[Voltaire]

Well.... after popping the dent out with nitrogen too it to the man who does paintless dent removal , but he could not do it....so out with the hammers and dollys all taped up. A couple of hours later and its not looking too bad....definately not bad enought to want to spend $500 on a second hand one.
Treated the tank with POR 15 metal ready.bit of flake like rust..it go quite warm, swirled it around , whipped out the bungs,washed it out and left it for a couple of days to dry.
poured in the Por 15 tank seal ...drained off the excess and left it for a few days to harden.
bought a new fuel filter and filler o ring and put it all back together.
Started it up and it runs again.
Mr Taylor has revalved the shock so roll on weekend....
Had the tank not imploded it would have rusted out anyway.....
Photo of Por 15 just before draining off surplus.
1 litre of this has so far done 1 Kombi tank, and two bike tanks.

[flyingcrocodile46]

Looks good as new. I had to go back to your first post to look at the mess you started with. Geeeze the tank sure was a mess on the inside. Well done Voltaire.

[Voltaire]

Took it out today on a 300km spin and its fine, got your wiring loom yet?

[flyingcrocodile46]

Took it out today on a 300km spin and its fine, got your wiring loom yet?

Yeah! that and a new used shock (off a ducati monster 900) and my clutch and brake parts for Baz and gaskets and magneto for Gad. Still waiting for the seriously overdue delivery of motivation though. Until that arrives nothing is happening.