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Time to come clean: I'm officially a Beemer owner


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no alpha-n, no carbon fibre, no wilwoods, not GC...taking all the willpower i have to not "upgrade"....

 

ok, back of bike came apart today.  need to lube the splines on both ends of the drive shaft and the tranny input shaft.

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rear brake system off

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diff off

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yep, driveshaft splines need some help

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then up on the lift so that the center stand can come off for the tranny pull

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tranny before

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tranny after

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clutch looks ok.

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shop with pieces everywhere

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tranny and driveshaft back together

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a little work while the snow is falling.

 

got the injectors back from RC Engineering.

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a little oil on the new orings and stuff them in the fuel rail

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back on the bike

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on to the rear brake

pistons retracted all the way.  easily done by hand

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new pads installed

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using the little tool speigler provides for twisting the hose end fitting to match the stock ones

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caliper back on bike.  had to reshim the abs sensor to the correct gap to the index ring.

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all bolted back up with peg plate.

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if the power doesn't go out in this blizzard, will make more progress tomorrow...after clearing a few driveways...

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wow, that is a nice fairing and bike!

 

i couldn't even get to the shop in the backyard to work on the bike today.  2 ft of snow.  spent 5 hours clearing 13 driveways to help out the neighbors.  that is the "blessing" of being the only one on the street with a decent snowblower... :)

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just finished cutting a path to the shop...in the dark.

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Well - it's on there.  The red paint doesn't match as well as I'd like, but it will have to do until I decide to pull it all off and re-paint.

 

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Also, I need to straighten it some more, but haven't had time to make the fine adjustments.

 

I do like the tinted windscreen vs. clear.

 

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Wow - it looks worse in the pics than in real life.

 

maybe I'll pull it completely off again and paint it flat black.

 

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after two days of 6 hrs a day snow blowing neighbors driveways, got back to the bike refresh.

 

installed rear liner.

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took the coils off, cleaned them up, cleaned all the connectors, and replaced

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replaced the wheel,  put the left side case bracket and exhaust back on.  

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DC is closed again tomorrow for snow removal...may get more done on the bike... 

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more progress today.

rear brakes bled. i use ATE Type200 brake fluid.

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right side case bracket and intake snorkel back on.

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bonus pic...this is the choke/fast idle switch connector in harness

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60/40 distilled water/coolant mix to fill the cooling system

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started installing the Skene front led lights. dug around in fairing for the parking light wiring for a trigger and found this.

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look like a PO modded the front turn signals with dual filament bulbs triggered off the parking lights.

 

this is the recommended location for the Skene lights.  offset bracket from the  brake caliper bolt.  They are just temporarily dangling off the brackets.

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thinking about alternate location with a custom bracket under headlight.  downside is that they are close to headlight and may not be as visible.

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looking more like a  brick again....

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good progress in between clearing snow from driveways...

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went for the under fairing location.  took some .5 x.5 in aluminum angle, cut 6in piece, drilled holes for the center mounting screw, light bar mounting studs and the wires.  painted with a couple coats of satin chassis black rattle can paint i had in stock.

 

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mounted lights to bar, then attached to fairing using the center fairing screw on bottom.  no drilling of fairing.

 

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wired module to take power off the parking light bulb plugs and lit it up.  yeow are they bright!  with the characteristic Skene flicker.

 

here is an off center shot

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and here is directly ahead.  noticeable difference in brightness.

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going to tidy up the wiring and velcro the LED control module to the inside of the fairing.

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Unreal.

 

Tried to get the bike out in order to straighten the fairing, and the front tire is flat.  Won't take air at all.  I'm sure the tube is toast.

 

New tube and tire ordered.

 

Sux.

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