600SS Oil Cooler? - Ducati.ms

MrSpigot · Jan 29th, 2012, 8:10 am

My 750SS is fitted with the oil cooler mounted on top of the front cylinder.

I am currently playing around with a half fairing and have concluded that the normal link piece between the two halves can't be used with the oil cooler in that location.........but I want the cooler to stay in that position, mainly because of the condition of the cr*p UK roads.

And then I found this pic from a 1997 Ducati brochure showing a 600SS fitted with a half fairing........so where is the oil cooler?

.....some people will say the 600SS didn't have a cooler.....so what are the pipes tied to the frame and where are they going?

AL.

ambi · Jan 29th, 2012, 9:08 am

Must admit I didn't know that the 600 ever came with a half fairing or cooler. Looks like the bike in the pic has the cooler mounted high in the frame or even at the yokes which I thought was only the province of specials/one-offs, particularly when fitted with 2 coolers.

ps Wouldn't have thought the cooler above the cylinder would have caused a problem with the full fairing as they are entirely open at the front, but I personally haven't tried that conjunction.

MrSpigot · Jan 29th, 2012, 9:12 am

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Originally Posted by ambi

Must admit I didn't know that the 600 ever came with a half fairing or cooler. Looks like the bike in the pic has the cooler mounted high in the frame or even at the yokes which I thought was only the province of specials/one-offs.

I know.....I can't see how something the size of the standard cooler can be got up there, unless it lays flat under the headlight.....

Maybe it's one of those in-line coolers that used to get fitted to Triumphs etc, back in the 60s and 70s??

No problem with a full fairing and top mounted cooler...standard fitting after about 1995 / 1996......but the half fairng has an aerofoil (sort of) connector that connects the lower parts of the two halves right where the cooler sits....in the pic it would be just behind the front mudguard and just in front of the tacho drive (there's a cut out in it so the mudguard doesn't hit it).

AL

470four · Jan 29th, 2012, 9:41 am

I'm thinking its a small strip cooler mounted behind the vent under the headlight?

ambi · Jan 29th, 2012, 1:22 pm

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Originally Posted by MrSpigot

No problem with a full fairing and top mounted cooler...standard fitting after about 1995 / 1996......but the half fairng has an aerofoil (sort of) connector that connects the lower parts of the two halves right where the cooler sits....in the pic it would be just behind the front mudguard and just in front of the tacho drive (there's a cut out in it so the mudguard doesn't hit it).

AL

Sorry, too lazy in reading your first post.
I've actually moved the cooler on my 900ss to above the cylinder (same reason as you) and I have the half fairing. Don't recognise the bit you mean, I suppose there's a fair chance that it was missing in the first place! There are 2 small holes at the bottom of the lower fairing pieces, I'm guessing that this piece may bolt to them? Without the piece you mention the fitted fairing is perhaps a little more wobbly than it might be.

470four · Jan 29th, 2012, 2:14 pm

This:

- is the mount in question

ambi · Jan 29th, 2012, 4:33 pm

Yup.
Had the bike 6 years and didn't even know that should be there!

LeoLegend · Jan 29th, 2012, 10:15 pm

I took mine out to install the cooler in it's location. Been fine without it for years.

Aceracer27 · Jan 30th, 2012, 6:36 am

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Originally Posted by LeoLegend

I took mine out to install the cooler in it's location. Been fine without it for years.

I have a 900SS and installed the half fairing. I just left off the cross brace. I think it was over kill to have a brace to begin with. Below pics are from 11 years ago, she looks a little different now.

MrSpigot · Jan 30th, 2012, 8:57 am

Thanks for all the comments....very useful.

OK....maybe a 750SS wouldn't go fast enough for the two halves of the fairing to get wrenched off if the crosspiece isn't fitted, but as I spent several years racing as passenger on sidecar outfits, believe me it isn't fun when a lump of fairing gets ripped off at speed.

If I decide to fit the half fairing (or just have it as an option) I think that instead of sourcing a smaller oil cooler, the fairing halves could be fixed to the frame somewhere near / on the bottom airbox bolts which can be seen in 470four's photo.

Thanks again, AL.