A conversation about Ducati...

The days of warming up the old car like your grandfather or father did are over.

I believe the main issue with warming a car or bike up is a lack of combustion temps which don't allow a proper seal to form between the piston rings and the cylinder wall, allowing fuel into the oil and decreasing the effectiveness and life of the oil.

Well, I leave mine to warm up to between 45 and 50 degrees C, because that's close to where the tacho goes to normal.
Then I take it easy on it until coolant temp stabilizes (5 - 6 Kms)
After that i'm getting into it depending on conditions of course.
The oil is 20w-50 grade, which shears down to 15w-50 and stabilizes at that grade for the full OCI.
Oil analysis states i'm consistently getting fuel dilution around about 0.5%, which is next to nothing in real world operational terms.
 
Does anyone know precisely what this means:

"One example given involved the shifter system, where the plastic washer between the joint and the knuckle wasn't torqued properly which caused it to fall down out of sight. During disassembly of the shifter, the plastic washer is usually unseen because of this and would fall out of the system, which meant the plastic washer would be missing during reassembly. "

My R is incapacitated right now since the shift arm is grinding up against the inside of the rearset. I don't see any plastic washers/spacers anywhere and wonder if this might be a contributing factor. TIA.
 

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