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all right so i'ma show you take off the chain on a Ducati the s2 are 800 right now what I've done is they're taking the back tire off I will post a link here for a video on how to change that out if you need to get that farm this is what that guard looks like so just take that off those are what the bolts look like and then I've taken off a little shield that goes right here as well it's just got those little allen bolts in there and there's two of those bolts on this thing and now I'm going to take this off right here it's got the little bolt right there and then it'll give me access to a chain the chain you can see is connected with a kingpin like this you can see the orientation of the kingpin is it slips on the bolt like this little clip pulls on these little nubs and so I'm going to take that out and then the chain will become loose once I take this pin out all right so I've rotated back this kingpin all the way to the end and I've broken off the little metal bit on there and now this piece comes out it was pretty rusted on there so I've had to break a little bit of it and now this pin will come out and that leaves the chain to come completely off the bike anyway I got one of these guys right here this is to adjust the chain that's about 20 bucks on Amazon these things are pretty hard to find so I'll make sure to put a link for that in the video description below and then the chain right here it turns out that for each link each link is considered two little links right here so there's 54 of these little guys and these little red things and so the whole chain is 104 links long so that's what fits on the Ducati s2 are the 800 so to loosen this up right now because the old chain you can see when I line them up directly right here at the very end the old chain is slightly longer than the new one so it's been stretched out so what I'm going to need to do is loosen up these pinch bolts back this in a little bit so it's shortening the distance between the two sprockets so that the new chain will fit on perfect when I put the new the King link in the main link the master link alright so I'm gonna show you how to loosen and tighten the back sprocket these are fourteen millimeter bolts right here you just have to loosen them up all the way and then you take your little Ducati chain tool and you can pop it in here and pushing it down actually loosens up the chain because it moves the sprocket towards the front of the bike and then swishing your tool around and pushing upwards tightens the chain because it moves the sprocket farther away from the front of the bike like that so down is loose up as tight and then once you have it in the right spot you just tighten these two little bolts back down and you're good to go so I got one of these clip two kingpins or master links because they're a whole lot easier to put on than the other ones so basically I put the two rubber washers in there I'm just going to slide it through the back two slots and put the other two washers on the other side and slip that master link in there in order to get this link on you have to press this part of the master link farther on there's a little tool that I'm going to link in the video description below that works better for this I'm just going to use my chain punch tool and just kind of press it right there in the center and now that it's pressed on enough to show those grooves right there I can take my little link pop it in and then I'm going to use grabbing it like that I can just pitch it on into place and you want to make sure that the round part of that clip is always going in the direction of your motorcycle that way it never accidentally comes off so for the chain tightness the ducati chain it needs to be at 30 millimeters which is just over an inch it's like 1.18 so right now it's a little bit below 2 when I pull down and it's almost 2 1 when I pull up so I'm going to loosen up just a tiny bit so I have the one point one eight inches of flex in there so that's about what it looks like when you have the right tension um the biggest thing is is that you don't want like when you're on the bike your weight comes down and tightens up the chain so the biggest thing is you don't want the chain to bind up when you hit that final like when you hit a bump or something like that and kind of bind your suspension into place so just make sure that it's not super tight when you sit down otherwise you might need to loosen up tiny bit more the reason I changed my chain in the first place was that when I would go around corners and stuff my chain would start clicking or when I would accelerate the chain would click because the links had stretched out enough that I wouldn't quite fit on the sprocket anymore so now with the new chain works like a dream alright got those two pinch bolts down there tightened up got all the guards back into place and the chain is good to go if you have any questions make sure leave them in the comments don't 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