building a motard with ducti wheels

[ledge]

Would love some advice on motarding ducati monster wheels for a husky te 510 05.
I have most parts, I have wheels, rubber,sprocket /cush drive and have ordered rotors that fit ducati wheels,&caliper extender bracket that fits husky to 320mm. ducati rotor is not flat but cupped towards the hub, is this a problem?
ducati axel is 25mm and husky is 24mm.
any help apreciated

Ledge.

[Muzzard]

Welcome Ledge.
Your wheelset fitting and the ease of that are dictated by axle bearing diameters and the availability of bearings outta catalogues.
Otherwise it can expensive for a machine shop to do the necessary spacers and crush tube.
With only the 1mm differential in axle diameters I would use the same crush tube and forego the clearance issue.
Its really only there for the bearing support and being so close to the axle shouldn't create a balance problem, but still retain enough material on the bearing inner face to support it sufficently.
Width of the rear rim and chain clearance might be an issue, and not being familiar with Ducati components cant really comment on that side of it.
Is it not usually an inboard style rear disc?
The cupped disc will need most likely to be ditched in favour of a zero offset (flat) rotor to allow alignment with the caliper on the new adapter you have, and still have correct alignment in the frame.
Good luck with it Ledge ;)

[SMC690]

Hey ledge,
What Ducati and what year model are the wheels off? If you don't know send me a PM with your email address and some pics of them.
If they are gold Brembo ones they are late 90's SS or Monster wheels so the width of the rear may vary between 4.5 & 5.5 from memory.
I can find out the bearings they take and the corresponding measurements for you if you give me a few days.
Someone else will have to give you a hand with the Husky widths and axle sizes unless you have all those yourself as I know phuq all about them. :)

[ledge]

thanks for the fast reply guys. the wheels are from a 2002 monster 600. the rear is a 4.5inch rim front 3.5.

that would be great if you can get bearing sizes smc625, thanks.

What is a crush tube Muzzard?

p.s I have the monster axels.

[SMC690]

This ain't going to be easy due to the wheels....

Where in Aus are you ledge?

[Wobbly]

Sounds a bit difficult ... but not un-doable ... you may need to ditch the cupped disc though, but fit it up in the front wheel temporarily first to see what sort of clearance you get with the fork leg ... then you can work out whether your offset bracket needs more machining or not to fit ... but it might work out easier just to get a new disc or at least a disc centre, esp if you want to be able to convert between road & dirt...

[Muzzard]

What is a crush tube Muzzard?

Ledge,
A crush tube is usually fitted inside the hub to support to load being applied when you tighten the axle.
It stops the bearings being pulled through the hub basically.
It is usually the same or very close to the axle diameter.
Not being familiar with the Ducati wheels/mags some mag wheels have a machined rebate in place to accommodate the bearing support, this eliminates the need for the tube...

[ledge]

I am in metro Brisbane smc 625.
the rotors will arrive in aweek or so.I will not be able to do much untill then but I am hoping different bearings are the way to go.

Do guys put spacers betwenn hub and rotor so you can center wheel more effectivley in the forks/and or swing arm cosidering chain and brake alignment?

[Wobbly]

Most of us have gone for wheelsets that are either built to suit or based on stock hubs, but antti has some cbr wheels for his XR that would have had to be machined in some way to maintain alignment. It'll either be spacing out (easy enough) or having the disc mounting face machined down if it needs to be brough inward. How big is your lathe? :shock: :lol2:

On the front you need to get the wheel aligned between the forks and then work out how to space things and what needs to happen with the disc to get alignment with the caliper through either machining/spacing of the disc mount or of the caliper or associated bracketery. On the rear chain alignment rules, but you can machined the hub to change this as well.

Seems to come down to a trial an error process...

[SMC690]

I forgot to email myself to remind myself to check the sizes for you.
Will give it a go tomorrow. :)

[ledge]

The ducati rear wheel will not work at all,the hub and cush drive are to large even for machining.The front wheel will be fine even the bearings are the rght size,Iwill have to have spacers cut from the one large one I have.
So I haved decided to part with dollars and go made to order wheel for the rear.
thanks for your help., Ledge.