If anyone has one, or a manual, can they check the front wheel is a Brembo 3.50 x 17 please ?
Its a typical Ducati site http://www.ducati.com/doc/manuals/M...f;jsessionid=ZUIMLIIRPNO0MCRNCB3CFFIKFUIHSIV1 We are sorry, the page you requested is not available. Not impressed by any of them ones I have been to.
Yes it is. Common across all of the Ducati bikes, with the only difference being the front axle size. Easiest way to tell is the older carby (smaller 20mm axle) wheels go from fat spokes at the hub and stay fat at the edge, eg: http://horrible.demon.co.uk/600ss/050311_dd_09.jpg The later (ie version) go from fat spokes to thin spokes and use the same 25mm axle bearings as the 916 and 999 line: http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c165/dkspares/may 2/Picture014-5.jpg They're all twin disk too; a plastic cap using 3 bolts of the bolt holes covers the disk mount. They're all made by Brembo. Note that a carby 900SS wheel won't fit a 900SSie and vice versa, but a 748/916/996/998 wheel will fit a 900SSie. Also Monster and SS wheels and disks are identical. That enough info?
Hmm, can't access that one Ah. That would be the one I had my eye on. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=220244783335 They could not say what year it was from, so you are saying that won't fit the 750ss ..... bugger And just dragged the wheel in to compare, so I can see what you mean. That saved me some dosh, ta. looks like I am back to ringing alloy repair places. Yes thankyou. Got any spare wheels :-(
To be honest, nobody really bothers changing their wheels from what I've seen. You get a few people that want the forged versions or that will buy a set of Marchesini mags, or maybe even stump up 1500 for a trick set of carbon wheels, but it's very rare. The standard ones are good enough and you can pick them up cheap enough to not really worry about it. People tend to paint them or polish up the rims instead.
Try refreshing it. It's sitting on my box at home so should be available if you keep trying. No, that won't fit yours (even though it's the same *wheel* size) as the axle bearing sizes are different. You *can* convert them by removing the bearings, replacing the inner spacer (that sits between the bearings) and then fitting new bearings in the right size. You could rob the spacer out of your duff wheel or you can still buy them from Ducati (#71420041A) and then either use pattern bearings or Ducati parts (#751612054) but pattern parts will be about 1/5th of the price. We did the same thing but went the other way - using an old wheel (cos that's all we had) on a larger axle. The bearings cost about £13 for the pair as they were the same as some FIAT rear axle or something! If all that hassle doesn't sound worth it, keep an eye out for a cheap Monster or SS wheel (they are the same) but remember that it might turn up and have fucked bearings anyway... When I checked it would be about £50 to have one repaired. As you can buy them off ebay for about that, it didn't seem worth it once you'd factored in the repaint. Between myself and Mark we have about a dozen wheels, so we may well have one that will fit straight off; I'll check and let you know.
It's probably because they used the same wheel across the whole range of bikes so there are plenty of them about. Ducati are great at either reusing parts between models and not messing with stuff on model revisions either. Pre-1098, Ducati calipers came in two flavours - 40mm mounting or 65mm mounting - and they were all made by Brembo. As long as you knew which size mounts you had you could buy one of anything and it would fit. Up until the 999, all Ducati brake disks were identical fitments too - all Brembo, all 320mm - and you could even use Guzzi and Aprilia ones 'cos they were the same. The radial calipers on my Hypermotard are the same monoblocs that are used on the 1098S and 1098R.
They aren't any good for Bruce as they are the SSie ones anyway. The (working) links are here, previous years on the left: http://www.ducati.com/en/bikes/service/manuals/2008.jhtml?family=manuals There is a copy of both the workshop manual and the parts manual on the GMail drive for it though.
I think... He originally wanted to know what size the front wheel from a 900SSie was, in case it was the same size as the one on his 750SS (carby). It is the same size wheel but not the same size bearings, hence the protracted thread on Ducati wheels... **** knows, I didn't understand that either!
I was in a rush, I was concerned that the ie version may not fit, which turned out to be the case Oh, and YHM on the address in your header
Doesn't make the bits cheap when you buy them new though, does it? I got a new brake light switch for the Elefant today: £23.90 for a microswitch, two bits of wire, two pairs of tiny nuts and bolts and a little nylon bush. Robbery!
