blouw
Nov 7th, 2006, 11:44 am
and not leaking any vital fluids.
For those of you that have been following the saga of my bike, it is now back on the road.
Last Saturday I officially gave up, took the gearbox to Lonestar and said, "Help!".
This was after I found that the weep hole that I drilled was not the cause of the leak. Tipped the gearbox on its side before re-installing and oil poured out of the ouside of the seal, not the shaft side. It's the seal that goes in that same housing - output side of input shaft. Turns out it is real touchy about position and I had it too far in. Lonestar drove a new one in with their BMW special tool and only charged me for the seal - $13!! The Clymer manual makes note of this, but the BMW service manual just says use the special tool.
So I now have an LT that is running better than ever. New clutch, new rear main seal, new gearbox seals and while it was under I installed HID low beam as well (Wow, as everybody says) and did canisterectomy.
Thanks to all for the support and all I can say is - drill that weep hole and save yourself a heap of problems down the road if you intend keeping it beyond the waranty.
Weather looks good for this week, so time to ride
:yeah: :yeah:
For those of you that have been following the saga of my bike, it is now back on the road.
Last Saturday I officially gave up, took the gearbox to Lonestar and said, "Help!".
This was after I found that the weep hole that I drilled was not the cause of the leak. Tipped the gearbox on its side before re-installing and oil poured out of the ouside of the seal, not the shaft side. It's the seal that goes in that same housing - output side of input shaft. Turns out it is real touchy about position and I had it too far in. Lonestar drove a new one in with their BMW special tool and only charged me for the seal - $13!! The Clymer manual makes note of this, but the BMW service manual just says use the special tool.
So I now have an LT that is running better than ever. New clutch, new rear main seal, new gearbox seals and while it was under I installed HID low beam as well (Wow, as everybody says) and did canisterectomy.
Thanks to all for the support and all I can say is - drill that weep hole and save yourself a heap of problems down the road if you intend keeping it beyond the waranty.
Weather looks good for this week, so time to ride
:yeah: :yeah: