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Paging Bonwick and the StuckBitsisti
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OK, so I thought I'd fit the new (used) Ducati cans I bought for the SS.
The can is a push fit into the headers, and is secured by the usual
bracket at the pillion peg end. How hard can it be?
Answer: fecking hard.
the replacement can.
one.
It is stuck absolutely solid. I've tried loads of Plus-Gas, heat, and
attached a serious FOAD chain wrench round the thing to try and twist it
to break the seal.
It ain't budging. Bear in mind it's been there for 10 years. The header
it goes into is some form of stainless steel - it may look manky here,
but it doesn't corrode. In fact, it's one of these:
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Buy the headers, YKIMS.
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I'm not sure if the 2002 injected model has the same headers as my old
carb-fed one. Don't see why it shouldn't, but the fixing points at the
can ends might be different. I think the injected bike had different
cans.
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Am I right in thinking the next stage should be the hacksaw the can off
the stub, leaving enough of the stub protruding to get a pair of vice
grips or similar on it, to pinch it smaller and hope that'll be enough
to let me pull it out?
Or any other bright ideas?
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Mine were also stuck when I made an exploratory attempt to get the Baines
Racing cans on [1] - I managed to break the seal by getting a bit of hard
wood against the lip where the can joins the pipe and whacking it many times
- shifted a couple of mm and then I was able to twist it back and forward
until I got it off.
Steve
[1] When I discovered that they may be off an 851 and the mounting brackets
are different so I need to make some.....
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Pinch it smaller and try and chisel it away from the stub in places then
lots of heat and plusgas before mole grips and pulling/twisting?
Try and cut longitudinal slots in the sawn off bit (without breaking in
to the stub naturally) from the inside with a dremel to aid pinching it
up away from the surrounding stub?
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