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Finally came round to open the bike and replace a suspected broken starter motor. Imagine my surprise when I took the left casing cover off and found this....
The bike was running fine on the day it gave up the ghost. From when I started to get weird speedo readings until I pulled over to check what was going on was a good 10 miles. When I pulled over, the bike refused to start again. I really can not imagine why that was by looking at the pictures
I Emailed Ducati Italy to show them this strange mechanical failure, hopefully they will be nice and kind enough to pass on a replacement 999R crankshaft out of the goodness of their hearts. rest of the engine internals so far looks OK, holding thumbs but all of the bearings will need replacing due to the fragments that did travel around the casing.
SF
Finally came round to open the bike and replace a suspected broken starter motor. Imagine my surprise when I took the left casing cover off and found this....
The bike was running fine on the day it gave up the ghost. From when I started to get weird speedo readings until I pulled over to check what was going on was a good 10 miles. When I pulled over, the bike refused to start again. I really can not imagine why that was by looking at the pictures
I Emailed Ducati Italy to show them this strange mechanical failure, hopefully they will be nice and kind enough to pass on a replacement 999R crankshaft out of the goodness of their hearts. rest of the engine internals so far looks OK, holding thumbs but all of the bearings will need replacing due to the fragments that did travel around the casing.
SF
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