Looking at which suppliers are recommended and best price for gaskets, rubber gromets & bolt's etc? lot's of small bits to replace & probably an engine gasket set, if that works out cheaper?
Or even if you go somewhere else you can use the site to look up all the part numbers and you can also see what parts are available
Various places at various prices. There are some good retailers here in Australia but in Europe check out Stein Dinse or Corsa SBK. Reputable eBay sellers are also a great option
For gaskets - OEM from Ducati. For rubber grommets/well nuts and bolts - various suppliers on eBay and amazon
You can also find most of the sensors such as air temp, coolant temp etc from online suppliers because they were also used on many cars from the same era as the bike
The guys at Moto Rapido. Thoroughly nice chaps and encyclopaedic knowledge of part numbers. I never go elsewhere.
..when you say "best" this conjures up several answers, but best* as far as knowledge, speed and friendliness/politeness used to be Craig at Moto Rapido Winchester - by a country mile although Ducati Alton were also very helpful for this for me recently. *ordering Ducati parts, on the phone.
A word of the wise, a lot of online parts stores will have a lot of official ducati parts, but a lot of the smaller items such as bolts, washers etc will be heavily overcharged and not from ducati. So I try to order bolts and the likes from ironmongers (drews is one in the UK if they are still about) or something like pro bolt. With that, I've been using these guys for a few years and not once had any issues and have had great support in a wrong order I placed. They took the old item and sent the new one out, no questions asked. https://shop.oemducati.com/en/products
+1 for Star Twin Motors in the Netherlands, in terms of their return time from order to worldwide delivery on all parts still available to order/in production from the factory. For discontinued parts, eBay does offer a plausible alternative and sometimes many UK dealers with their (offline) deep inventory (ProTwins in Godstone) may offer NOS solutions. As far as bolts are concerned and if we are talking about a true restoration, then eBay is the only place I've found where the old style gold/zinc anodised ones can be sourced as original NOS. Ducati no longer supplies them with that colour of anodisation and hence the minor change to some part codes. That being said, there are a couple of places that do that gold/zinc anodised process still, yet it's not worth it for just a few bolts.
For clarification - if you ask for 'anodised' screws or bolts you'll get Aluminium-alloy ones! The process to protect steel screws/bolts from corrosion is zinc plating then passivation (then a decorative finish). Passivation - how It works: The passivate (often a chromate conversion coating) chemically reacts with the top layer of zinc. The zinc serves as a sacrificial layer to protect the underlying steel, while the passivation layer protects the zinc. The colours available for the final 'look' are purely decorative, not functional. The original gold-red colour was from the old (now thankfully banned) method of Cadmium plating.
And unfortunately, because anodised bolts are now associated with bling, they cost a bloody arm and a leg.
