sykospain
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celeb0001 had a recent thread on here describing his marvellously simple and ingenious solution to the premature spline failure problems that afflict these bikes, due to the manufacturer's design fault whereby the clutch friction plate hub does not engage onto the entire length of the gearbox input-shaft splines.
I'm sort of re-starting that thread by showing my grandson's just-devised and fabricated kit of 5 lumps of metal - well, four plus a bolt - for correctly and firmly re-rivetting the plate's hub back on, after the spacer has been interposed.
Robin is willing to do the job for those owners of all R1100S and the entire series of R1150 hydraulic clutch bikes who want to guarantee extended spline life and avoid the sudden, unannounced and often catastrophic loss of forward motion when the transmission splines ( not incidentally the final-drive splines which seem very robust ) finally give up in a loud grinding or screaming sound, yet who don't want to - or simply can't - tackle the reassembly of the spacer onto the clutch plate themselves. Robin has access to a massive hydraulic press.
See our little U-Toob video in which my friction plate and hub is already re-rivetted, but showing how the compression of all 8 rivets would take place in precise alignment.
http://youtu.be/fKNw4uFLq-8
AL in s.e. Spain - Robin is in Sheffield UK
I'm sort of re-starting that thread by showing my grandson's just-devised and fabricated kit of 5 lumps of metal - well, four plus a bolt - for correctly and firmly re-rivetting the plate's hub back on, after the spacer has been interposed.
Robin is willing to do the job for those owners of all R1100S and the entire series of R1150 hydraulic clutch bikes who want to guarantee extended spline life and avoid the sudden, unannounced and often catastrophic loss of forward motion when the transmission splines ( not incidentally the final-drive splines which seem very robust ) finally give up in a loud grinding or screaming sound, yet who don't want to - or simply can't - tackle the reassembly of the spacer onto the clutch plate themselves. Robin has access to a massive hydraulic press.
See our little U-Toob video in which my friction plate and hub is already re-rivetted, but showing how the compression of all 8 rivets would take place in precise alignment.
http://youtu.be/fKNw4uFLq-8
AL in s.e. Spain - Robin is in Sheffield UK
