Top Tips to Workshop Maintenance

[tintin]

... without the option of drilling out

Not always true. You simply need 3 diamond tip drill bits and two spare weekends

[ladybirdscot]

Blimey! And I was worrying about breaking a nail!! I need help lads (I don't have a husband, ex or otherwise, to blame)!!

[Angel By Name]

What a fantastic idea! This thread will come in very useful to me and others who are learning about their bikes n maintenance.

Genius! ~Thanks

[TheSaint]

A wire coat hanger, untwisted at the top, makes an excellent device for storing all the cogs, spacers and the like when stripping a gearbox. Take each piece off the gearbox shaft one at a time and slip them onto the coathanger. When it's time to reassemble just put the parts back on in reverse order, i.e. last part off = first part back on.

[al]

A wire coat hanger, untwisted at the top, makes an excellent device for storing all the cogs, spacers and the like when stripping a gearbox. Take each piece off the gearbox shaft one at a time and slip them onto the coathanger. When it's time to reassemble just put the parts back on in reverse order, i.e. last part off = first part back on.

Ah, the routine jobs you have to do when you own a Ducati! :I can't believe it's not butter!

[fido]

If you buy a new bike and intend to do your own servicing and repairs it is worth removing screws, bolts and nuts one at a time and smearing grease on the threads and shanks. This will make them easier to remove when the bike is a few years old. If you are worried it might affect your warranty do it as soon as the warranty runs out.

[IZINBARD]

Top Tip NOT

Also, when putting back calipers etc NEVER use the same bolts as the original ones will have been wekened and stretched slightly. They must be replaced and Loc-tited in place.

Utter Bollocks Rob. That is ONLY REQUIRED if it is stipulated in the manufacturers service G-spot. I have never had a bike that required that and I have owned lots.

Get a torque wrench and learn how to use it.

[Gazza]

Top Tip NOT

Also, when putting back calipers etc NEVER use the same bolts as the original ones will have been wekened and stretched slightly. They must be replaced and Loc-tited in place.

Utter Bollocks Rob. That is ONLY REQUIRED if it is stipulated in the manufacturers service G-spot. I have never had a bike that required that and I have owned lots.

Get a torque wrench and learn how to use it.

Have to agree with Izzy here. Steel is elastic (up until it's yield point). Hence the bolts would return to their original length when undone, unless over-torqued or overheated.

If bolts are over-tightened and thus stretched beyond the yield point, they would have plastic deformation and I believe a consequent lower ultimate tensile strength. Only then would they need to be replaced.

[TheSaint]

Use old coke tins and cable ties. You'lll figure it out.

[dale123]

Top Tip NOT

Also, when putting back calipers etc NEVER use the same bolts as the original ones will have been wekened and stretched slightly. They must be replaced and Loc-tited in place.

Utter Bollocks Rob. That is ONLY REQUIRED if it is stipulated in the manufacturers service G-spot. I have never had a bike that required that and I have owned lots.

Get a torque wrench and learn how to use it.

Have to agree with Izzy here. Steel is elastic (up until it's yield point). Hence the bolts would return to their original length when undone, unless over-torqued or overheated.

If bolts are over-tightened and thus stretched beyond the yield point, they would have plastic deformation and I believe a consequent lower ultimate tensile strength. Only then would they need to be replaced.

Err, I must take the bolts out ooh, 30+ times a year. That would be a lot of bolts!!!

[TheSaint]

Ah, the routine jobs you have to do when you own a Ducati! :I can't believe it's not butter!

The only gearbox I ever broke was a 1983 Yamahaha XJ550 back in 1984 (the younger members can ask their mums and dads what the 80s were,or XJ550s for that matter).

Coked up top ends, self igniting regulators and disposable clutches on the other hand....