My /5 rebuild intro.
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:40 pm
Hi everyone. I have been making progress on my /5 and thought I would gather a few pictures and tell you the story about it. Kind of a long story. I don't know if anybody cares to read it or not.
I have a 1973 R75/5 LWB. I inherited the bike from my brother, it hasn't seen the road since 1985. My brother bought the bike when he was in college and rode it a couple years until 85' when he decided to restore it.
The motor was sent to San Jose BMW for a complete engine overhaul. From top to bottom it looks like just about every piece was replaced (I have all the invoices from them and it goes on for pages). Also the heads were converted to dual plugs, flywheel lightened,Rockers changed to needle bearings, and everything was balanced. He had them rebuild the transmission and clutch, the Final drive was rebuilt and resplined, and a new drive spline was installed on the rear hub.
At this time he also had them brace the swing arm. Lots of other parts were purchesed from them at this time, emblems, gaskets, lenses, Dyna III ignition system, wiring harnesses, ignition and electrical parts etc.. He had the frame powder coated, the tank and fenders beautifully painted and pin stripped, and the seat redone. He bought new fork tubes, springs and seals. He had the spoke rims restored. A Keihan exhaust system was purchased. He really spared no expense in the work and components he purchased. Everything else was torn down to it's smallest component.
Now the sad part is that my brother was getting sick and this was as far as he got. The bike than sat in his garage in this state for 16 years. He passed in 2001 and that was when I inherited the pile of parts. I wasn't sure if I had a whole bike at this point. The bike parts had been scattered from one end to the other of his garage/shop over the years. Intermingled with tons of other mechanical stuff. I carefully judged what came out of the shop trying to determine what was a part that belonged to the bike and what wasn't along with what tools were specail BMW tools and what wasn't. In the end this is what I ended up with.
Now I had all these parts boxed up and carefully wrapped up. I than put them up in my rafters. I wasn't ready to start a project like this. Thats where they sayed for about 4 years. In 2005 I decided I wanted to finish the project that my brother began. He really liked this bike and so it meant something to me to work on it. He had all the BMW parts nad repair manuals. So I carefully looked at each piece,bracket, bolt etc.. and matched it with the parts book. Than I compared what was in the parts book to what I had and determined what I was missing. Nothing large but a lot of small items along with some things that had not been resored or were to far gone to restore. So there, I was ready to start a journey. I had always been into hot rod cars but had never put together a bike like this from a pile of parts.
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I have a 1973 R75/5 LWB. I inherited the bike from my brother, it hasn't seen the road since 1985. My brother bought the bike when he was in college and rode it a couple years until 85' when he decided to restore it.
The motor was sent to San Jose BMW for a complete engine overhaul. From top to bottom it looks like just about every piece was replaced (I have all the invoices from them and it goes on for pages). Also the heads were converted to dual plugs, flywheel lightened,Rockers changed to needle bearings, and everything was balanced. He had them rebuild the transmission and clutch, the Final drive was rebuilt and resplined, and a new drive spline was installed on the rear hub.
At this time he also had them brace the swing arm. Lots of other parts were purchesed from them at this time, emblems, gaskets, lenses, Dyna III ignition system, wiring harnesses, ignition and electrical parts etc.. He had the frame powder coated, the tank and fenders beautifully painted and pin stripped, and the seat redone. He bought new fork tubes, springs and seals. He had the spoke rims restored. A Keihan exhaust system was purchased. He really spared no expense in the work and components he purchased. Everything else was torn down to it's smallest component.
Now the sad part is that my brother was getting sick and this was as far as he got. The bike than sat in his garage in this state for 16 years. He passed in 2001 and that was when I inherited the pile of parts. I wasn't sure if I had a whole bike at this point. The bike parts had been scattered from one end to the other of his garage/shop over the years. Intermingled with tons of other mechanical stuff. I carefully judged what came out of the shop trying to determine what was a part that belonged to the bike and what wasn't along with what tools were specail BMW tools and what wasn't. In the end this is what I ended up with.
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