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Dry assembled the cases to check functionality of the gearbox.
The gears and the selector drum are all in perfect condition and went in with no hiccups, same for the selector forks. Then I hit the first potential small hurdle.
When we, and I stress that word "we", took the casings apart my “assistant" who was responsible for taking pictures of the gear selector arm position in relation to the selector drum, lets just say that his sense of humour is now not appreciated because the idiot only took a picture of his middle finger proudly displayed over the selector arm. Now I have no idea what the position of the slector arm was. I know it is super critical that you line things up perfectly or you will have gear change problems.
Note to self, never ever ever ever ever give free beers to the helpers while you are working on an engine. Wait until the job is finished and then let them loose on the fridge!!
Followed the Haynes and the 998RS manuals - but they both refer to using a Ducati tool to line it up. (Another Special Ducati Tool Story -why?) If you don’t have one of them special tools, then it is Mark1 eyeball time the Haynes manual reckon. Played around with it and was able to consistently get the gears to change properly, and the suddenly it just didn’t work anymore try as I may. Gave up after about an hour of getting it to lign up.
At least the gears are centered and are rotating freely as I change between the different gears, neutral goes in without a hitch.
Anybody got any advice on how to line up the selector arm properly when I finally get to that stage?
SF
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