Engine is still intact on the bike, but with the belt pully cover removed and the sump guard sieve thingie accessed.
I'm past bothering with the dealer. I'll just go to guildford from now on.
Oil's all gone!
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Engine is still intact on the bike, but with the belt pully cover removed and the sump guard sieve thingie accessed.
I'm past bothering with the dealer. I'll just go to guildford from now on.
New engine works perfectly!
There's a few bits and pieces that I need to sort out:
1) Need to figure out where the three bolts I had left over actually go, and if anything fall off.
2) Headstock bearings still need replacing.
3) The belt pinion on the working engine is an older design to the one that broke. Originanlly BMW shipped the F800s with a rigid belt pinion, but that gives a fairly lumpy ride at slow speeds. They changed it later to a damped version which improves things. Somehow need to get the pinion off the old engine and refit it to the new one.
Other than that, it's great! You can tell it's a lower mileage engine, things feel a touch less rattly and a touch tighter, the gearbox especially. The idle clutch chatter is a fair bit louder though, but that's part of the older engines "character".
I must say that after embarking on this, no job looks too big now. I knew I needed the headstock bearings doing before, and was dreading it slightly. Now I know it's a fairly simple thing
There's a few bits and pieces that I need to sort out:
1) Need to figure out where the three bolts I had left over actually go, and if anything fall off.
2) Headstock bearings still need replacing.
3) The belt pinion on the working engine is an older design to the one that broke. Originanlly BMW shipped the F800s with a rigid belt pinion, but that gives a fairly lumpy ride at slow speeds. They changed it later to a damped version which improves things. Somehow need to get the pinion off the old engine and refit it to the new one.
Other than that, it's great! You can tell it's a lower mileage engine, things feel a touch less rattly and a touch tighter, the gearbox especially. The idle clutch chatter is a fair bit louder though, but that's part of the older engines "character".
I must say that after embarking on this, no job looks too big now. I knew I needed the headstock bearings doing before, and was dreading it slightly. Now I know it's a fairly simple thing
