Well, I took my bike to GP Motorcycles in San Diego about 3 weeks ago for a stalling problem. My bike would stall on cold starts always, it would not idle on its own on cold starts. At first they thought it was a problem with a motor that opens the throttle on cold starts, then Ducati shipped out a new ECU for my bike, they also checked out all the ground wires and found one that was pinched so they replaced that. Well, it still stalled so Ducati had them run through all the vital checks on the bike including valve clearances and they found that both exhaust valves were too tight so they shimmed them properly and the bike runs great now!
Sucked being without my bike for 3 weeks but Ducati took care of all of this under warranty including picking my bike up at my house for me.
My only concern is that if the valves were too tight for the 4500 miles I've already put on the bike there might be galling on the cam lobes and if that is the case there might be permanent engine damage. I'm going to call the service manager on Tuesday and ask about this.
Funny, because this also seems to have cured a problem I'd always noticed with this bike of it kind of bucking as you coast at low rpm in gear. You'd reach a point where the bike would kind of buck, it doesn't do that anymore.
During the first 1200 miles it would stall sometimes when I'd pull in the clutch to downshift too. I wonder if this was another symptom.
Anyone else had their valves checked and found them out of spec? Probably not, why would you check them during the first 7500 miles? You kind of think that's the sort of thing Ducati would get right when they build the engine...
Cold start stalling issue-solved!
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