Hi guys, I am 5'7 and 185lbs. and would like to soften and lower a little bit the rear of my Ducati Paso 750. Unfortunately, I really don't know where to start or how to do it!!! :confused: 1) Should I go with the spanner wrench to the shock? 2) What is the black little numbered adjusting knob on the very bottom of the shock for? 3) What about the adjustment on the golden gas charged little thing attached to the right side of the frame with the braided line connected to the actual Shock? I bought the bike from a much taller and heavier guy. Therefore, I will appreciate your experience and input regarding this matter! Once again thanks for your time and help with this... :thumbup:

the knob on the side is for spring load adjustment. Factory setting is near to 0 reference. Less spring load will soften the spring a bit.

The knob on the bottom is to stiffen/soften damping. Screw in to stiffen and unscrew to soften.

Gerhard

Hi Gerhard, as usual you are one of my reference "gurus" :thumbup: Once again I thank you for your time in responding and help! So, I don't need to do nothing with the spanner wrench? What is this big spanner wrench for? A friend of mine told me that I needed to compress a little the spring with this spanner wrench! Once again thanks Gerhard for your help and knowledge!

My Best Regards, :thumbup:

Jose :

Jose,

if you use the spanner wrench on the Paso shock you also move the hydraulic spring preload system. This might only be reasonable if you need an even harder or softer ride than can be adjusted by the hydraulic system.

Don`t know about the Paso shock but I`ve read in a brochure once that some shocks are set to a driver of 90kg weight by standard. In my case this would be too much and probably also hydraulic spring preload setting 0 would be too much/hard. In this case I`d need to use the spanner to decompress the spring.(compressing it will make it harder)

But honestly I`ve never done much adjustments with my shock, so I´ll leave this topic to the guys who really know what they are talking about

G.

delagem has done quite a bit of work to his Paso recently, and posted up an excellent write up - - I've seen it in person, and he did an awesome job with the modification. (He can also ride the hell out of it, too - so it didn't seem to slow either one of them down at all) But just to look at the bike, lowered, there is something very cool in its appearance as well. It's almost like a chopped hotrod, or something.

Anyway - deoending on how much you want to do to yout Paso, I'm sure Michael has a lot of insight and suggestions for you as well.

Good luck! Keep us posted in what you do!

You wanna soften your Paso's rear ride? Your Paso? I think the rear suspension linkage on a Paso was designed by Barcalounger...

Ducati tends to run too stiff on the rear, and too soft in the front, I think as a compromise to riding with a passenger, but I hadn't thought of the Paso as needing much help.

Check your chain tension, be sure it's not too tight, and you oughtta disassemble your linkage, then clean and grease all the parts. 20 yrs is a long time, and almost nobody ever greases these parts. Then you can try the damping settings.

Lowering the rear is easy, just loosen the clamps and rotate the eccentric. My wife and I both stand ok over the Paso with the rear and front lowered, and a Corbin seat, and she's only 5'2".