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I picked up a 749 on Thursday. I was quite happy. I changed the oil and mounted a tire on friday. I was pretty mad at the fact I couldn't change the plugs till the following day. I learned from Ducati that their special plug socket was more than a $100 bux! A little searching around on the forum resulted in a milled down spark plug socket. Voila old plugs out and new plugs in. Now come the questions.
1. Should the sparkplugs have oil on the thread? Mine did.
2. Bike is having idling issues. I have searched the many and various threads. My idle is on the low side. I have bled the clutch, it was dragging. Stipulation-if I start the bike it runs fine. No matter how much revving I do. When I ride the bike any closed throttle operations result in fall to idle then die. If I hold the idle @ 1500 RPM for a few moments then close the throttle completely the bike will idle like it should.
3. How much does a clutch cost and where can I find one for cheap. It's a funding issue right now. I can register it or replace the clutch, but not both. I was taking the bike to Palomar for a Sunday ride when not 10 mi from my house I discovered the clutch was slipping. From 5K< with more than 20% throttle all that would result would be high revving w/o much increase in speed.
I took some pix of the plates. Some have entire sections of material missing. The ones that don't have significantly less than what the book calls for.
http://s837.photobucket.com/albums/zz294/MarineDragger/
I can't post up a wtb ad for awhile still.
Any one upgrade to a slipper and wanna sell me their old one?
Thanks for any advice.
-Chris
1. Should the sparkplugs have oil on the thread? Mine did.
2. Bike is having idling issues. I have searched the many and various threads. My idle is on the low side. I have bled the clutch, it was dragging. Stipulation-if I start the bike it runs fine. No matter how much revving I do. When I ride the bike any closed throttle operations result in fall to idle then die. If I hold the idle @ 1500 RPM for a few moments then close the throttle completely the bike will idle like it should.
3. How much does a clutch cost and where can I find one for cheap. It's a funding issue right now. I can register it or replace the clutch, but not both. I was taking the bike to Palomar for a Sunday ride when not 10 mi from my house I discovered the clutch was slipping. From 5K< with more than 20% throttle all that would result would be high revving w/o much increase in speed.
I took some pix of the plates. Some have entire sections of material missing. The ones that don't have significantly less than what the book calls for.

http://s837.photobucket.com/albums/zz294/MarineDragger/
I can't post up a wtb ad for awhile still.
Any one upgrade to a slipper and wanna sell me their old one?
Thanks for any advice.
-Chris