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Offline Kookaburra

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Running in new piston rings
« on: September 29, 2014, 02:42:50 AM »
Back from the Scrap Heap Adventure (95 bikes including 3 R65's and all up we raised $70,000+ in sponsorships for down syndrome.) Did 1700 Km round trip  but now time to do some maintenance.

I have cleaned up the cylinders and put in pushrod seals and new piston rings. Its a 1985 bike with Nikasil barrels. So the question gurus is what sort of running in of the new rings do I need to do if any?


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Running in new piston rings
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2014, 10:12:54 PM »
[movedhere] BMW Technical Q&A, Primarily R65 [move by] Bob_Roller.
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