I love Italian machinery!
Yesterday I checked my clutch, swapped places of a few steelplates and turned the frictionplates around.
Today I decided to check, just for the fun of it, the belts. They are already 15,000 km old. ( and because of Ben’s [ http://www.powerwheelie.de ] bad luck..)
As you all know, the battery and the battery tray have to be removed, in order to gain access tot the front cylinder’s belt cover.
Well, here’s what I found:
WTF?
Check the frame!!
One of the wires is cut, pointing towards the camera.
I guess this is one of the infamous things that should be checked on all 916/996 bikes. But I only thought this problem is with the 2-phase alternator, not the newer 3-phase? Oh, well. I’ll swap the connectors to sealed AMP’s.
In early spring I did check these connections, sprayed connection cleaner and so on, but it seems that it wasn’t enough. Better check your stuff mid-season as well.
The belts were looking great, by the way… 
To check the rear belt, I only removed the middle cover and everything looked fine there, too.
That was propably the reason for the occasional “cuts” that you experienced a few tmes. Good that you found that one before it caused some serious trouble.
Comment by JuhaV — 01 07 07 17:26 @ 17:26
nice belts mate! They look so… so… undamaged
Nice burnings on the frame by the way. Liking the black to brown fade around the burned area. Gives the Duc a personal touch.
What was that connector for?
Comment by Ben — 01 07 07 22:21 @ 22:21