Disassembling the engine

Time to get the part out so that I can order a new one. In order to get the part out, I need to separate the engine body halves. The disassembly starts with the remove of the cylinder head. That is pretty straight forward. After the cylinder head is away, the manual instructs to disassemble the left side first followed by the right side. Once some nuts and gears are removed from the right side, the two halves just come off after the bolts keeping the sides together have been removed. The kickstart shaft comes out very nicely after that.

Now that the part is out I can order the replacement part. There are several places to find spare parts. Ebay obviously, where I actually found a part that looked to be in good shape with a good price. So that should be arriving in August. I also found two sites which look really good. Now that the engine is open I will have a good look at the parts and order other bits I might want to replace. Gaskets for sure. The sites I found best are www.ducativintagestore.com and www.ducaticlassics.com.

I packed all the separate units making up the engine into to plastic bags. That way everything stays clean and I don't have to reassemble the engine but I can still easily put the engine into storage somewhere and free the workshop for other stuff until the spare part comes.