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Who's this 'we', white man? I just bought a R100GS ... maybe your Honda has automatically killfiled me? -----sharks
Onya, mate. What year? -- // Rik Steenwinkel '85 R80ST Skippy bike // Enschede, Netherlands '91 R100GS/PD The Great Unwashed // N 52.2158 E 6.88589 '90 K75C Kommutabike // "Far away is only far away '81 MZ TS250/1+LSW Badkuip // if you don't go there" '79 Honda XL250S TBD
well, there's me. I can only see where someone has replied to you. Maybe it's the german newsreader. You wouldn't be doing something silly like using a sig file with an embeded image would you? Moike
Beware the driveshaft. Take it out once a year and check for rotational play: if there's any the joint bearings are on their way out and you can expect total failure within 10.000km. Keeping the rear drive splines well greased with a good EPX grease will lower the stresses on those bearings; as they're sealed there's no immediate way to improve joint bearing life directly (but with some effort it can be done nonetheless). Taking the shaft out of the swingarm and putting it back in is a bit tedious, but with the right sequence of loosening this before taking off that, etc., it takes me about 1.5h. Loosen wheel bolts, undo front rubber boot, take out front pivot bolts. Then pull the swingarm backwards a bit, and undoing the four gearbox output flange bolts is suddenly way less fiddly. Also when reassembling: hanging the swingarm from the rear frame using a luggage strap, aligning it horizontally but two cm further back it's way easier to get those bolts back in. Check if it's got a grey coil (prolly not, for that year). Those are prone to developing cracks and hence cutting out in the rain. Generator rotor winding tends to fail at 80..100 kkm. The generator telltale light should light after turning the ignition key and before starting. If it doesn't, for whatever cause, charging won't be happening. And in the 'fluids' section of the workshop manual, cross out the '800ml' next to 'gearbox' and write in '1l'. The gearbox output shaft front bearing will thank you for it. -- // Rik Steenwinkel '85 R80ST Skippy bike // Enschede, Netherlands '91 R100GS/PD The Great Unwashed // N 52.2158 E 6.88589 '90 K75C Kommutabike // "Far away is only far away '81 MZ TS250/1+LSW Badkuip // if you don't go there" '79 Honda XL250S TBD
Yep, it's got grease nipples added and assuming I remember to actually grease it that should help. Bloody BMW, of all the things that should be set-and-forget ... Yeah, I think that's done. I'll check. Yep, recently changed along with the diode board. Cool. It's filled up to the level of the plug, do you mean lean the bike over the other way and 'overfill' it? -----sharks
[ good mods already done ] A bit; 800ml doesn't quite reach the filler hole yet when the box is level. -- // Rik Steenwinkel '85 R80ST Skippy bike // Enschede, Netherlands '91 R100GS/PD The Great Unwashed // N 52.2158 E 6.88589 '90 K75C Kommutabike // "Far away is only far away '81 MZ TS250/1+LSW Badkuip // if you don't go there" '79 Honda XL250S TBD
