Ducati Cadet/Mountaineer

[Laava]

Presume you're talking Ducati. No idea what you've already got or how much you need these bits.

How long is a piece of string ?

Yeah, I was talking only about the motor in the photos.

[Laava]

Ok, so I picked up the motor today. It was an easy fit in the topbox of the multistrada. I measured it and my schoolboy maths tells me it is a 90cc

[Laava]

Right, so it's time for an update. I was wrong, the motor is deffo a 100 cc, 3 speed.
So I stripped it down to make a rough list of what bits I need vs what bits I can get. Overall it seems in good nick, very clean inside but lots of wear on the clutch basket and primary gear. Also the output shaft is very flogged on the sprocket fitting spline end.
There is a side cover missing from the RHS of the motor and a cover plate from the air filter. The Rh crankcase has a bit busted off that holds the end of the clutch cable and an adjuster for the throwout lever.

[Laava]

Picked up the rolling frame courtesy of Husaberg, thanks very much Husa!
it has seen better days but is a starting point

[Laava]

So I made an electrolysis bath and the tank spent(wasted) a week bubbling away in there. I may turn it into some kind of crazy lamp…
Anyway, cut the rims off and dismantled the frame and it is currently in a barrell getting the electrolysis treatment.
The forks are bizarre, I grabbed the bottom sections and they just kinda slid out, off the top section with no apparent method of holding them together. Unless it is a subtle kind of bayonet fitting? I will find out once I start stripping them down.
It looks tiny next to my Monster! …which is not a big bike!

[F5 Dave]

Those rims will buff out. Might want to replace the front tyre though. That sprocket will be OK once you've arc welded it back on.

[Grumph]

Dave's a cynic. That output shaft can be built up with TIG welding.
Doesn't need to be remachined, careful hand work with files and a new sprocket as a gauge will get it usable again.

[pete376403]

Dave's a cynic. That output shaft can be built up with TIG welding.
Doesn't need to be remachined, careful hand work with files and a new sprocket as a gauge will get it usable again.

Maybe how it was made in the first place. Ftf (file to fit) was found on a lot of Rolls Royce documentation when Packard were tasked with building Merlins. Ducati may have used similar, or even CtF (chisel to fit)
If you have read the story about Cook Nielsens "Old Blue" Ducati, you would recall the efforts made by Phil Schilling to get the factory close ratio gearbox to fit and work.

[Laava]

Those rims will buff out. Might want to replace the front tyre though. That sprocket will be OK once you've arc welded it back on.

I like the way you think!��
Surprised you didn't suggest a tank slosh!

[Laava]

Dave's a cynic. That output shaft can be built up with TIG welding.
Doesn't need to be remachined, careful hand work with files and a new sprocket as a gauge will get it usable again.

Bro I can't tell if you just volunteered for the job or not?😆😆😆

[Grumph]

Bro I can't tell if you just volunteered for the job or not?😆😆😆

i am still doing a bit. just finished undercutting a GSX1100 gearbox - and yes, some TIG work was needed.


But I don't work for free.

[Laava]

i am still doing a bit. just finished undercutting a GSX1100 gearbox - and yes, some TIG work was needed.


But I don't work for free.

Nice one! I am not unrealistic!👍

[husaberg]

I am surprised how much metal is missing out of that tank all of my experience with electronics of shitty Japanese metal has come out super and shiny.
The RD frame came out beautiful.
Are you sure you used Washing soda ie Sodium Carbonate rather than bicarbonate

[Laava]

I have a new one now from england. But the guy would not send it to NZ. Sorry but I will not send it to NZ, he said. But he would send it to a guy from one of the ducati forums…

[Laava]

I am surprised how much metal is missing out of that tank all of my experience with electronics of shitty Japanese metal has come out super and shiny.
The RD frame came out beautiful.
Are you sure you used Washing soda ie Sodium Carbonate rather than bicarbonate

The taps in that tank were mint tho. Not that I have opened them up to see the guts.
Yep, Washing soda…
Japanese steel being better than italian steel is probably not surprising tho?…