Mark - Welcome ! Heartily agree you should do your own work (as much as you are able) so that you can learn the bike and head off larger issues. ...

• The real BMW gaskets are jet black on the sealing surface, and dark gray on the edge. Most of the imposter gaskets are sandy tan. • Adding more an...

Wear at the drive spline is mainly caused by lack of lubrication and water protection. A waterproof or water-resistant grease must be added to the spl...

• Stop ! There most certainly are torque specs on the 2 nuts and center stud. 14 ft-lbs (max) on the center; 4 ft-lbs on the two 6mm. If you don't fol...

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The first "special tool" you need when installing new oil seals is a tube of P80. HERE

Dan - I used strips of self-adhesive, 3/4" wide weather striping on mine and they were perfect. Weather striping is supposed to be crushed, so it wo...

Larry - Welcome ! ► Like a lot of Airheads, the bike you found may have sat for a long while. The following article contains a list of the top 80%...

I've owned 3 or 4 of these brackets (on and off bikes) and IME, after 50 years they are all sort of tweaked. You cannot lay these on a surface plate a...

One reason you should use a strobe light is to have a visual indication of exactly what's going on with the ignition timing. The "blurry" factor is no...

Are you saying that each end of the ATF balance tube was connected to one of the carbs, and it still sucked all the ATF out of the tube ?? In my min...

And you don't R&R the timing chain without installing the updated tensioner spring at the same time.

• BMW harnesses are very well made. If you have not spliced into the harness to add the kinds of accessories and "upgrades" that were popular in the 1...

1. In computer speak, the term is GIGO. Garbage in; garbage out. Expecting good things from bottom tier fuels is pure folly. You can get it in a water...

Hi Stephen - My 1979 R100 also had the "can" and it had a mechanical advance mechanism inside which was controlled by springs. When the mechanism pi...