P r e s s R e l e a s e www.vintagebmw.org Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners * 5 Alexander Road * Billerica, MA 01821-5032 USA Wednesday June 1st 2005 The Board of...
Some time ago, someone on the list sent me a link for Vintage cloth wire. It was a guy located here in the USA and had a very small web site.Does anyone...
I think it was the CIA guy ooops, the Kradrider guy in Moscow that mentioned the wire guy, and I think that the wire guy was somewhere in Mass. Hello Bruce,...
Good Morning from the 'Eastern Front', Rhode Island Wire is the supplier (Google on it) that I mentioned. There are some others, but I have that info on my...
My buddy has just called me in a pickle, the mechanic working on his KS750 here in the UK has managed to lose 3 of the needle rollers out of his crank roller...
Dave, There's a fellow in Germany who sells replacement needles for those rods. I'll try to dig up the information. Also, try Motorrad Stemler. He sells a lot...
In a message dated 6/6/05 4:03:37 PM Central Standard Time, daveydachs@... writes: << My buddy has just called me in a pickle, the mechanic working on his ...
Bill, Maybe not in the US, but there are plenty of KS750's out there running happily on shell bearings. It seems the only real weakness in the KS750 was the...
In a message dated 07/06/2005 08:14:22 GMT Daylight Time, Graphiker1@... writes: Thank you David. Do these conversions to shell bearings and different...
hi Dave, i went with Glenn to Harvey's place and we obtained the correct size rollers from him.Just to let you know the engine is in an original state i.e....
Andy, Just doing my gearbox and engine output oilseals this past weekend, also fitted a new Knecht type oil filter (Harvey actually) and resprayed it. David ...
Hi All A quick question on oils & fluids if you please ? I think I may have asked this question before but a change of job and therefore computer means I can't...
Ian, Fill the gearbox and rear drive until the oil reaches the bottom of the threads. If your engine is broken in, I can see nothing wrong with using Mobil 1 ...
Hi Andy, Would you please post a few pics of the engine rebuild.. never seen the inside of this one before. Regards Nigel ... few pictures as we go . Hopefully...
Just remember that the original oils used did not have detergents in them, therefore if there are still any hard deposits in the engine then a modern oil will...
... Good point. My result of discussions with an oiling-engineer of Mercedes and Ulli, the BMW vintage man at Frankfurt: - modern "synthetic" oils serve a...
I just bought one of Hommes' KS600 oil pumps, and its a nice piece of engineering. It uses larger-than-stock gears to pump more oil to the bearings. Apparently...
Hi Nigel.We intended to take a cart load of pictures but got carried away with the task in hand .As we had all the parts and gaskets we needed we just ploughed...
Hi David sounds like you've been busy.we asembled Glenn's block yesterday with only one or two problems which we quickly overcame and need to get the clutch...
Hey any of you kids have an extra flywheel you can pawn off? Fransisco said that he will sell me his. But he won't be back in Italy for a while and I would...
Did you use any specific torque values for the various nuts and bolts? I have a torque wrench, but no information on what torque values to apply to the nuts...
... Have a look in the "Files" section of this site, under"General Technical Information". There's a pair of tables of standard torque figures against bolt ...
