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Ohlins Shock Mystery

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:58 am
by enzo906
I have seen the light and have come back to owning a PASO.
I just got one and it has a Ohlins Shock. The resovoir says racing shock and thats about all the info I have.
Anyone know more about these?

I have a busted clock on this one, my last PASO had a working clock for 9 years up until I sold it. Apparently fried clocks are common - any ideas on how I can fix it.

All help is greatly appreciated
enzo

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:01 pm
by Finnpaso
I think, You have Öhlins from some early 750 Paso(they had Öhlins).... I have never heard, that some other Öhlins will fit to Paso. :evil: And its easy to rebuild in Öhlins maintainner..and still spare parts are available.... Btw, much better, than Marzhocci.

About clock: Try to find Fiat Ritmo clock from some car wrecker.... Same clock! I havent opened any of those clocks, but remembering something, that plastic sprockets inside and thats why very difficult to fix it... :confused:

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:01 am
by enzo906
Finnpaso

Thanks for the information. I don't think I will find may Fiats in Australia but I will have fun looking.

Cheers
Enzo

Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 5:50 am
by jomo
Enzo,

You can send your clock to Olympic Instruments at Pymble near Sydney. Great sevice, costs me about $70 dollars.Most times you will find your clock dies from an elctrical fault. Last time , mine was caused from a loose + terminal at the battery causing spikes through the system.

The parts aren't available anymore, so the just put in a different circuit board on your original face. It looks a little dodgy, but once you put it in the panel, nobody will know. I think I got them to leave the wires longer and then I was able to silicon the cicuit board behind the panel and next to the clock recess.

jomo

Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 5:31 am
by enzo906
Thanks

Olympic don't do it anymore. St George instruments tells me the VDO clock internals are same size.
Problem is the hand bosses are different so I need to use VDO hands. Now I have found my car has the same VDO clock so I'm going to the wreckers to look for a clock and I will change the face, paint the hands to same as Ducati, solder in a valtage regulater from Dick Smith (Once 16 volts is achieved the IC on the PCB burns out) to protect from wayward spikes