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Well i thought i had a single question but i now have two:
Firstly how do you spell cir clip??? It looks soooo wrong.
Secondly, I know that the first of the mono lever airheads did not have the cir clip but did the later ones ie 1992?

Thanks!

Pete

If you mean the trans circlip, I think they did not come back till the end in 1995.

Edit: If you mean the one on the timming chain...... look in the oil pan.

Circlip is spelled correctly, even if Spellcheck doesn't know it. (Spellcheck is not a word, either.)

Timming also gives us a red underline. It is spelled 'Timing'.
But 'tinning' is O.K. So is 'trimming'. But if a girl were to be making love to Timo in Hawaii, I suppose you could say she is 'Timming'.

Which reminds me MS, what is the proper use of single quotes?


And I have no idea about the date ranges of the circlip in the gear box. Sorry for my diversion Rob Frankham.


Largiader says: "At some point around 1985, BMW dropped the circlip on the front end of the output shaft. It was reinstated around 1994, but the gearboxes produced in that time frame are at risk for excessive bearing wear."
http://www.largiader.com/tech/airtrans/ (scroll down 1/3rd)

justoneoftheguys wrote:But if a girl were to be making love to Timo in Hawaii, I suppose you could say she is 'Timming'.

Which reminds me MS, what is the proper use of single quotes?

I think that would be "Timoing," but it's just my opinion.

There is no proper use of "single quotes" in academic writing. In informal writing you can do all sorts of things that are not acceptable under more formal requirements. For instance, I often start sentences here with "Course," when I mean "Of course," and that's completely improper in formal writing (actually, even the use of "of course" is frowned upon in formal writing). Course, no one here has ever busted me on it. I'm surprised Scot never did. He's nailed me a few times on finer grammar details; he's quite well trained in such things. Ken's probably noticed, but he's more forgiving.

I understand that single quotes are more accepted by the Brits, but maybe Beem or someone can enlighten us about that.

I'm with Major Softie: there is no 'right' use of single or double quotes. It seems to be regional but even then there is no consensus. If you need to put a quote within a quote it is usual to use one form to open and close the main quote and the other form for the included quote.

Back to circlips. Snowbum's site has masses of information on models with and without here: http://bmwmotorcycletech.info/transmission.htm

But what you're after may be a 'snap ring', not a circlip. Or you need both. A 'snap ring' is round in section and looks very much like a bit of bent wire. A circlip is flat and has holes on either end. The snap ring sits in a groove in the shaft inside the radius of the inner race of the bearing and stops the bearing moving along the shaft. It does not necessarily need a circlip. Lots of info here: http://www.circlips.com.au/clip.htm

And just as a matter of interest - James Joyce called quotation marks "perverted commas".

A circlip doesn't necessarily have holes on the ends. The /7 transmission (probably others) uses a circlip to hold the pivot pin for the back-of-tranny clutch arm. It's an external circlip (maybe an e-clip?) that fits in a groove in the pin.

Kurt in S.A.

I can't be quite sure about this but perhaps and 'e-clip' is actually called an e-clip as distinct from a circlip. They are two different beasts. But I was quite proud of my use of 'single quotes'.

"E-clips" are offten reffered to as "Jesus-clips" as a ressult of whatt is saidd whhen they dissappear whilst Juan is trying too innstall themm.

Major Softie wrote:

justoneoftheguys wrote:But if a girl were to be making love to Timo in Hawaii, I suppose you could say she is 'Timming'. I think that would be "Timoing," but it's just my opinion.

I like to call it "the most exciting 30 seconds of her life", but that's just me...

Major Softie wrote:

justoneoftheguys wrote:But if a girl were to be making love to Timo in Hawaii, I suppose you could say she is 'Timming'.

Which reminds me MS, what is the proper use of single quotes?

I think that would be "Timoing," but it's just my opinion.

There is no proper use of "single quotes" in academic writing. In informal writing you can do all sorts of things that are not acceptable under more formal requirements. For instance, I often start sentences here with "Course," when I mean "Of course," and that's completely improper in formal writing (actually, even the use of "of course" is frowned upon in formal writing). Course, no one here has ever busted me on it. I'm surprised Scot never did. He's nailed me a few times on finer grammar details; he's quite well trained in such things. Ken's probably noticed, but he's more forgiving.

I understand that single quotes are more accepted by the Brits, but maybe Beem or someone can enlighten us about that.

I took a quick look at my Elements of Style book, by Strunk & White, and they do not discuss single quotation marks in the quotation section. I was rather disappointed. But, hey--C'est la vie.