New Specialty Tools for the New Owner

[Rob]

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[kmisterk]

Exhaust Nut Wrench.

https://i.imgur.com/jbwiv29.jpg

[Seth]

I agree with the exhaust tool, but use this one.
Works well and doesn’t take up much room.
A good 1/2” breaker bar provides plenty of torque and it locks into the fins very well, both the older larger fins and the newer small ones.

https://www.cycleworks.net/index.php?ma ... cts_id=346

[Rob Frankham]

The cast one is easier to use but takes up more space. I've had both... they both work. One or the other is essential.

Rob

[kmisterk]

The cast one is easier to use but takes up more space. I've had both... they both work. One or the other is essential.

Rob

I ended up choosing the larger one as I have no intentions or inherent needs as of yet to remove the exhaust away from where the tool is stored.

Might not be a bad addition to any given toolkit for mobile emergency repairs, although I’m hard1pressed to think of an emergency repair that needs the muffler off. May just be my inexperience.

[Rob]

This was a beautiful spanner that I once owned. I'm afraid I let it go with my tool roll when I parted out. It was great for the rear wheel nut on the twin-shocks.
It used to be part of the Supplementary Tool Kit. 71 11 1 237 848
Now, it seems, BMW has removed them from the catalog. I can't even find a reference to Heyco manufacturing them or selling them. Too bad. Felt good in the hand.
If you see one for sale - snatch it up!

2nd from the bottom.

[kmisterk]

This was a beautiful spanner that I once owned. I'm afraid I let it go with my tool roll when I parted out. It was great for the rear wheel nut on the twin-shocks.
It used to be part of the Supplementary Tool Kit. 71 11 1 237 848
Now, it seems, BMW has removed them from the catalog. I can't even find a reference to Heyco manufacturing them or selling them. Too bad. Felt good in the hand.
If you see one for sale - snatch it up!

2nd from the bottom.

oooh, those look really nice, too! Wonder if we can find something similar somewhere?

[Rob]

oooh, those look really nice, too! Wonder if we can find something similar somewhere?

You DO realize that the other tools are part of the stock tool roll? A coveted item. Still available new and used. Be careful of bid wars. They will happily out-bid new prices.

Here is my original tool kit, for the 1979 R65:

[kmisterk]

oooh, those look really nice, too! Wonder if we can find something similar somewhere?

You DO realize that the other tools are part of the stock tool roll? A coveted item. Still available new and used. Be careful of bid wars. They will happily out-bid new prices.

Here is my original tool kit, for the 1979 R65:

Haha, yes, I have most of my bike's original tool roll, but I was specifically referring to the Heyco wrenches, as you said they are no longer made and those specific sets aren't referenced anyway.

[Kurt in S.A.]

I bought an aftermarket tool kit for my /2 from Vech at Bench Mark Works. For my single cylinder BMW, I decided to just get the pouch and went around to a number of pawn shops, especially those that specialized in tools, and found the wrenches I could use. For a motorcycle you need wrenches with different sizes on the ends in order to cut your total tool load in half. I think I ended up buying some unusual stuff, like the 22mm wrench at Northern Tools.

Kurt in S.A.