Bearings off

The last time I got the crankshaft removed so what was left, was removing the bearings and stud bolts. I would have left the stud bolts in place if my owen was big enough but unfortunately it isn't. Anyway it turned out to be a good choise since when heating the crank half in the owen the bearings came out almost by themselves. Much more convenient than with heat gun which takes ages to heat up.

Once I got the bearings removed I took the halves to a local machinery shop for washing. A quick way to get them clean even though the result could have been better. I think the only way to make it look like a new would be to boil them in sodium hydroxide. I didn't have facilities for doing that though and besides would rather practise with something cheaper since sodium hydroxide corrodes aluminium and therefor there's a possibility to ruin the cases. Well, they now look much better than earlier.

Currently there's no Ducati's importer in Finland as the previous one got fired or quit after 20 years, don't know the details, but it makes getting parts locally a bit hard. I would have liked to know the price at least even though I probably had ended up ordering the parts from Germany or Italy since they usually are pretty expensive here. I decided to change all the bearings except for heads and water pump, all the gaskets, seals and o-rings and belts. The total price was a bit over 700 euros including postage fees etc. Just the mains would have been ~150 euros total but wasn't up for saving here since the engine was already in pieces. Even though the price might sound high, if you take your Ducati for 20k km service (belts, valves, etc) the price is somewhere above 1000 euros in here. So yeah, you get most of the downstairs renewed cheaper. Own spare time is free of course :)