New Grips, Ready to ride.

This was a big week, everything including my new oem rubber grips are installed, and I;m ready for a test run. I have original cables on the throttle, new air filter, most the fluids changed now, flashers working, petcocks working, choke is loose, were good to go, cross your fingers.

Been waiting - Chicago BMW Parts

I finally got my order of parts from Chicago BMW. The forums are right, these guys are one of the less expensive parts store, but do not order from them if you are on any kinda of schedule. It took three weeks for a Air Filter, two fuel petcock nipples, and two standard rubber grips to arrive. They have good customer support, but realize that they have to order parts to be aggressive with their pricing, which means you might have to wait for the best price.

I have not been riduing the bike since I had not air filter, and working petcocks. I ordered new petcock nipples because i broke one while messing with the fuel line, and the other looked really old.

I proceeded to install the air filter, and put the petcocks back to together, she is now ready for the road.

Choke Cables

I decided to try to free up my old choke cables today.


After removing both of them from the choke assembly, man what a pain that is, I realized the left side choke was really the one sticking badly. The internal wire near the carb conneciton is bent a couple times, and seems like it is time to replace.

Now, I do not have a fancy cable luber thingy, and these cables are old and on there way out soon, so I just needed a temporary solution. I decided that some gear oil might do the trick, and it is what I had laying around from my final drive oil replacement.

I proceeded to pour in drop by drop some oil in the cables where they would normall connect to the choke mechanism, and after "worrying" the cable back and forth the oil dripped out the bottom. This actually seem to work pretty easy with out homemade tools, just some paitence.

Now I will be replacing these cable this winter, and Ted Porter's online shop does not list them, but he said he stocks them for $10.00

Flasher Relay Part 2

My original post on this never fixed the issue, I was days away from ordering a new $60.00 dollar relay, that it occurred to me that this relay is two-in-one, and when troubleshooting original I remembered that when pulling out the flash indicator light the problem went away.

I must of not realized the errors of my way earlier. I decided to pull the indicator light connection off the flasher relay plug this time, and loose that function for now, result, no buzzing and working turn signals.

I will replace this part, because I like to know when I accidentally leave the flashers on, but for now I can deal with it.

Final Drive Oil, Drive Shaft Oil

Replaced Final Drive Oil today, no problems, uses Hypoid Gear oil from walmart, SupoerTech, do not know much about this oil, will be using Redline for the gears.

Went to replace the drive shaft oil, and realized the top screw is stripped.

PICTURE HERE

After sending an email to AskOak@aol.com, he recommended using a custom homemade metal wedge to remove it. I might try to see of I can pull of the final drive and send it to him or Ted Porter for repair. I guess this is a common problem when over torqued.

Newbie Mistake, Throttle Cables

Ok, I admit it, and even Ted Porter's Common Mistake website did not save me on this screw up. I need new throttle cables, so this newbie excited to see a set of 1978 R100/7 cables on ebay for $17.00 dollars, bid and won, WHOO HOO.



Problem is these cables do not work with my model, 1977 R100S. Funny thing is I ignored the advice on the wise Beemer Heads and went ahead and installed them. After wresting an hour with these new old cables, I got them installed on the throttle body, and installed them on the carbs, start it, revs to 4000 RPMS, because the cable ends near the carb are too short, thus lifting the throttle lever too high. "My Bad"

I quickly removed the new old cables, and reinstalled my original old cables, and back to normal idle, RPM's. Anybody need a set of 1977 R100/7 throttle ad speedo cables?

Installed National Cycle Deflector Screen DX

Ordered a National Cycle Deflector Screen DX from Midwest Powersports. Bot I really like how easy it was to install and adjust. I need to take some pictures so people can see it.

It does not provide all the protection of a Plexistar, but is looks much better on this model.