My Multistrada seems to have developed an annoying habit of ejecting the bolts from the exhaust cover, which is a bit of a PITA. (Specifically, part number 77244173B.) Anybody know a source of OE-equivalent fasteners, rather than paying through the nose for individually-bagged ones from Ducati?
Hi Eddie, I usually get my stainless stuff from a company called "A Bolt From the Blue" on eBay. A Bolt From The Blue, abolt-fromtheblue items in A BOLT FTB store on eBay! If you know the sizes off hand then you can buy a bag of 10 for usually about a quid from them. Also get some threadlock Looking at the drawings, there is one either side, if you still have one of them measure it and find the equivalent.
Yeah, I haven't lost all of them yet, and I've got the parts diagram so it's easy enough to figure out which other bolts are the same size, but I'd quite like to get black ones to match the originals, but stainless instead... (picky, picky, picky). Got plenty of threadlock, but I'm careful about where I use it... I think I'd rather copaslip them and lose a bolt once in a while, than find that they're seized when I want to get them out in a hurry.
Not stainless, but these look close enough: M5, 10.9 BLACK HIGH TENSILE FLANGED DOME SOCKET BUTTON - ALLEN KEY BOLT / SCREW | eBay £4.65 for 100? That's a bit of a bargain compared to 61p each from my local Ducati dealer!
From memory, that sort of stuff does tend to rust pretty quickly if the paint gets chipped/worn - but you get a hundred of them just swap them out every so often
With the vibration of a big twin, threadlock is my best friend! Better safe than sorry. Good quality tools and proper application always win over threadlock later. Just a little on the lowest two threads is all that is needed, it is when people pour it all over the bolt it becomes difficult to remove.
LOL. I think that they have a special low grade metal reserved specifically for bike manufacturers some place
Some kind of ferric oxide composite, bonded with a water-soluble solvent, and coated with a molecule-thick layer of paint.
