Bavarian beauty stripped (longish thread)
Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:41 am
Finally get to Jason's after dodging the peace march in London and the usual SE traffic agg... (Captions at top).
Bike off trailer into garage, on blocks, dangling from engine stand, plastics off, cup of tea all in an instant....
These are likely to be the biggest hassle
Electrics unclipped, alarm wiring oh so carefully disentangled and led removed from back light. Caliper off, footrest and brake pedal off, subframe bolts off
Silencers don't want to budge - Jason removes magic hammer from break glass unit on wall - that's soon sorted. Subframe off.
Not quite as organised as our friends from over the pond...
Gus, have you considered conversion to a lowrider? Had to resist the temptation to fire it up at this point..
Start on cat bolts...
20 dremel blades and 3 drill bits later
"I'm sure thats how they did it on the pelican thread" oh maybe not then... one very firmly attached to gearbox drive shaft...
S mauled by pride of lions shocker..
Fuel tank off
Frame off
S carnage in driveway
Finally, make it to the clutch.. Airbox off, starter motor off, clutch slave cylinder out and gearbox off after more precision magic hammer wielding.
What's this then on gearbox input shaft (still no idea of correct terminology.. is this right?)
There it is, truly mullered splines... new gearbox anyone?
So there it is - how to split an S into bits. All came apart relatively easily aside from seized cat bolts which were expected... took us from about 3.30pm till 9ish including quick dash to wickes for more drill bits.
Now need to sort cat and gearbox..... will replace clutch while I'm at it and possibly paralever bearings (?)
1/2 way there, it didn't explode and all fingers and toes are intact.
Next week - Putting it all back together.
Massive thanks to Jason.
Ade
Bike off trailer into garage, on blocks, dangling from engine stand, plastics off, cup of tea all in an instant....
These are likely to be the biggest hassle
Electrics unclipped, alarm wiring oh so carefully disentangled and led removed from back light. Caliper off, footrest and brake pedal off, subframe bolts off
Silencers don't want to budge - Jason removes magic hammer from break glass unit on wall - that's soon sorted. Subframe off.
Not quite as organised as our friends from over the pond...
Gus, have you considered conversion to a lowrider? Had to resist the temptation to fire it up at this point..
Start on cat bolts...
20 dremel blades and 3 drill bits later
"I'm sure thats how they did it on the pelican thread" oh maybe not then... one very firmly attached to gearbox drive shaft...
S mauled by pride of lions shocker..
Fuel tank off
Frame off
S carnage in driveway
Finally, make it to the clutch.. Airbox off, starter motor off, clutch slave cylinder out and gearbox off after more precision magic hammer wielding.
What's this then on gearbox input shaft (still no idea of correct terminology.. is this right?)
There it is, truly mullered splines... new gearbox anyone?
So there it is - how to split an S into bits. All came apart relatively easily aside from seized cat bolts which were expected... took us from about 3.30pm till 9ish including quick dash to wickes for more drill bits.
Now need to sort cat and gearbox..... will replace clutch while I'm at it and possibly paralever bearings (?)
1/2 way there, it didn't explode and all fingers and toes are intact.
Next week - Putting it all back together.
Massive thanks to Jason.
Ade