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Bocking's Beemer'd-up Again
Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:57 pm
by BockingBandit
Just a quick 'Thanks' to veryone from the site who have helped me to get the 1100S back on the road. MOT on Monday and the Hire-Bike can return to sender.
Oh ,.. and Paul, .. I havn't forgotten, .. I've just been a little busy with large bits of BMW internals.
Geoff
Re: Bocking's Beemer'd-up Again
Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:57 pm
by Jason M
BockingBandit wrote:Just a quick 'Thanks' to veryone from the site who have helped me to get the 1100S back on the road. MOT on Monday and the Hire-Bike can return to sender.
Oh ,.. and Paul, .. I havn't forgotten, .. I've just been a little busy with large bits of BMW internals.
Geoff
That's good to hear Geoff - glad the S is breathing again
Jason
Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:19 pm
by Boxadog 2000
Hmm
Thats why the lights dimmed, must have been when you put the paddles on to revive the heart.
Good man now go courier the beast to within an inch of somebody elses bumper.
Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 5:28 pm
by nab 301
Any ideas what caused the problem , and any photos..........?
Nigel B
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:56 am
by Harry
good news blue88.
harry.
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:00 pm
by BockingBandit
Nigel, .. no photo sorry mate. But,.. engineers say that bike was probably running hot, piston/rings 'nipped' in the barrel, broke and shot through the side of the piston.
I can say that at the time I knew i was ready to change the air filter and not sure if relavent, but after the seizure, I noticed that the right side vaccum take-off cap was mising. Bike had plenty of oil etc, changed regularly filter and oil.
I wasn't thrashing it at the time, but i have done a few trackdays on it.
Geoff
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:36 pm
by gus
Hi geoff
The missing nipple of the throttle body seems like the culprit if it is of the same side as the wrecked barrel and piston.An air leak there would cause hotspots(weak mixture)in that side of the engine.Usually the valves get burned ,but i suppose the weakest part fails first.Was there lots of backfiring before the bike expireed?
Glad your up and running again.
gus