Front snowflake bearing 1982 R100

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FMurtz
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Front snowflake bearing 1982 R100

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bit of play,going to replace bearings, any advice? which includes a breakdown pic of the shaft with all bits on it,I have a factory manual but can not find it.
barryh
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Re: Front snowflake bearing 1982 R100

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It may just need the pre-load adjusting but inspection, clean and re-grease before hand is the minimum that should be done. There is no short and quick guidance on how to do this. Take a look here: http://w6rec.com/bmw-motorcycle-wheel-b ... pun-hubs/ or here http://bmwmotorcycletech.info/section4.htm
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Wobbly
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Re: Front snowflake bearing 1982 R100

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First thing to do is to verify that you have steel bearing seats in your cast wheels. You can easily do this with a magnet. The reason is that the early, all-aluminum wheels have a MUCH different bearing replacement procedure.
After 20 years as a professional bike mechanic and 30 years as an engineer I know just enough to be dangerous !
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