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According to RealOEM, those springs were only listed for the later models, say 1980-on. Bings manual suggests that same thing, for later version carbs.

Kurt

Blocked air filter? Torn diaphragms in the carbs?

Kurt

Did the first year /6 come with the older speedo pod? Originally that light you mention is supposed to be the oil pressure light...it should come on when ignition is engaged and engine not running. The other bulbs in the speedo unit are - @ 30 is the high beam indicator, @ 20 is the neutral light, a...

Here's a website with that part:

https://www.boxxerparts.de/product_info ... anguage=en

Kurt

Actually that is called a denial of service. I posted about that in this thread. The Vintage BMW forum has also had this issue but they have brought on board a Cloudflare feature which blocks all of those attacks.

viewtopic.php?p=137067#p137067

Kurt

I'm sure those "others" are bots, spiders, etc., that crawl the net looking for content to bring back to their search engines. It's annoying, but it's a good way for the info from this forum gets out there. The difference can be something like 10-20 to one for each actual member.

Kurt

A bit about rocker arms:

https://largiader.com/tech/rockers/

Kurt

Motobins has something on their website.

Kurt

I thought you mentioned that they were at least 10 years old. The seals are supposed to be squeezed against the engine. If they've lost their elasticity, they'll crack and you're back where you started. Maybe the cost of the seals is prohibitive??

Kurt

Exactly where does the leak come from? Hopefully it's not the oil pressure switch. From what I can tell, the collars on the tubes that push on the seals are brazed to the tube... (say post 1981). Using anything to push the collar tighter like begins to pull the tube out of the head...could create an...