The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2

General Category => General Announcements => Topic started by: GDeane on May 28, 2011, 12:55:44 PM

Title: Now I get it!
Post by: GDeane on May 28, 2011, 12:55:44 PM

I picked up my 82 R65 a few months back from a 72 year old gent.  Beautiful bike, little over 9,000 miles on it, but the bike had not been ridden much.  Compression at 70psi, timing off and basically ran poorly.  I put a little over 400 miles on it in an effort to seat the rings.  Finally gave up and had the piston rings replaced.  Just came back from a 125 mile break in run.  Wow, now that is why I began riding motorcycles.  I can't stop grinning.  I feel like a kid on Christmas morning.

Title: Re: Now I get it!
Post by: Dizerens5 on May 31, 2011, 03:20:51 PM

As  we used to say -- ace to the max!

Title: Re: Now I get it!
Post by: Justin B. on May 31, 2011, 04:12:00 PM

I wonder if '82 was a bad year for rings.  I had to replace the rings on the "Dawg" when I was bringing it back to life.  It was the first BMW engine I've ever had to re-ring!

Title: Re: Now I get it!
Post by: nhmaf on May 31, 2011, 11:42:37 PM

Hey, don't say that!   Still running my original rings in my 82 and it is doing great (hope I didn't just jinx myself!!)

Title: Re: Now I get it!
Post by: Janacek on June 09, 2011, 03:54:27 AM

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Hey, don't say that!   Still running my original rings in my 82 and it is doing great (hope I didn't just jinx myself!!)

Title: Re: Now I get it!
Post by: Justin B. on June 14, 2011, 06:21:55 PM

I had pretty fair compression but after running for about 2 minutes it killed every skeeter on the block!  The oil rings had about .025" end-gap...