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john stirling
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what gas should I use for my 1970 R75/5 ?

I use what ever boiled boar urine is cheapest in mine. I find Alcohol has zero effect other than decreasing power and mileage. The engine is modified ...

4 years ago
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Egg on Your Face Situations

I've had the lost carb bowl to a boot eyelet adventure. It was easy to find, smashed flat 20 feet behind me. That was in the early days before I had...

4 years ago
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'74 R90/6: left cylinder after or back firing above 3k rpm

if that side is back firing that would be soot. it also means the backfire is happening during valve overlap resulting in the soot so far up in the in...

4 years ago
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'83 R100RT: Front oil seal

it depends on which oil seal is leaking. There are only two seals: a large lip seal on the crankshaft and the beancan o-ring for the the cam shaft. Th...

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1973 R75/5: New to airheads, new to the forum

I sourced a /5 crank. Should I proceed? Need some way to contact you. edit: found another one:

4 years ago
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‘83 R100CS weird clunking noise while coasting

You do not disconnect the driveshaft from the transmission to lube the transmission input splines unless the plan is to remove the transmission. For a...

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1973 R75/5: New to airheads, new to the forum

You can go with many engines. 90/6 engines are routinely put in /2 frames. Just needs a driveshaft adapter. Any /6 and /7 motor will bolt up. But I wo...

4 years ago
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‘83 R100CS weird clunking noise while coasting

I have this strange issue when i am coasting in 1st or 2nd gear, i will feel, NOT HEAR, clunking on my feet. It happens only while coasting. Its hard ...

4 years ago
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Good airhead mechanic in Hudson Valley, NY (Rhinebeck, Red Hook region)

Ask Randy Long in PA or Tom Cutter at rubber chicken racing. Both north east guys..

4 years ago
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'78 R80/7 Front Brake (or lack thereof)

The ATE brake sucks, not to put too fine a point on it. BMW abandoned them in favor of the Brembo, then still had trouble getting the MC/caliper pisto...

4 years ago
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'77 R75/7 Enrichening Jet Plugged

i wrote my post poorly. When I said "check the other side" I meant look for a brass jet on that side which might indicate that there was one on the t...

4 years ago
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'77 R75/7 Enrichening Jet Plugged

Reflecting on this a bit more it occurs to me it might have been a bowl with a screwed in brass jet. Check the other side. Then someone tried to unscr...

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'81 R100RT: Tail light blinking instead of rear signal lights

the LED panel in the tail light is quite sensitive, very little current will light it up. If power from the blinker circuit was getting into the power...

4 years ago
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'91 R100RT: Quit Running

The years, weeks, hours, minutes and seconds of your life are the most precious things you have. They are limited, they will run out and you don't kno...

4 years ago
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'77 R75/7 Enrichening Jet Plugged

For long time all I saw was screwed in brass 'jets'. Then someone told me they had a drilled hole and I immediately felt inadequate. The hole is t...

4 years ago
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