Feckin gear box!!

[shready]

I've got an 1100GS and and 1150RT, they have done 83,000 and 51,000 miles respectively. Obviously the RT is newer, anyway, I'm getting a bit pissed off now.

I've had the RT just over 2 years and initially all was well. Last year I had a clutch slave cylinder fail whilst I was in the French Alps, the bike came home a fortnight later. Then yesterday afternoon, almost a year to the day of the French fiasco, the RT packed up on the M25. I accelerated and the engine just revved, as if it had dropped out of gear. I got to the hard shoulder and the engine runs fine but when in gear it just sqeals and has no drive at all.

It's with Brian Giles at the moment and he suspects that the gearbox final drive has gone and it's gonna be expensive

Anyway, my old faithfull 1100GS has never let me down at all, not in such a big and expensive way anyway. Is it down to BMW build quality or what?

As an aside, my friend also had an 1150RT and his failed exactly the same about 3 months ago on 34,000 miles. He now has a new 1200RT

 

[ktmmark]

Could be the input shaft spline's some bikes suffer from it & some don't

 

[Sergeant Pluck]

I've had the RT just over 2 years and initially all was well. Last year I had a clutch slave cylinder fail whilst I was in the French Alps, the bike came home a fortnight later. Then yesterday afternoon, almost a year to the day of the French fiasco, the RT packed up on the M25. I accelerated and the engine just revved, as if it had dropped out of gear. I got to the hard shoulder and the engine runs fine but when in gear it just sqeals and has no drive at all.

Very similar to what happened to mine a month or so ago - destroyed clutch, broken gearbox - I feel your pain.

Clutches and gearboxes seem weak on boxer BM's IMVHO - it's why I (never say never) *probably* won't get another one.

Pluck

 

[shready]

Clutches and gearboxes seem weak on boxer BM's IMVHO - it's why I (never say never) *probably* won't get another one.

Pluck

I feel the same way at the moment.

Honda maybe

 

[shready]

Well bike is back and repaired now, I had a new gear box input shaft and a new clutch. The teeth on the shaft were deformed and worn and the clutch ring was stripped!

I had the gearbox overhauled too with new seals and bearings, runs like a dream now.

Thanks to Brian Giles at BGM

 

[Womble]

Good news - just in time to get a GSA for the winter

 

[speeder]

I went through two clutches in the same way, the spline stripped out of the clutch plate, a real pisser, on the old boxers it was possible to grease the splines simply by undoing the gearbox bolts and pulling the box back a bit, it is then possible to apply grease to the splines.
I don't know if this can be done on the oil heads, I could tell when the clutch was about to go because the rattling noise at tickover was very loud due to all the play developing in the worn splines.
Some bikes suffer from this problem while others don't, come to think of it my 1100GS is starting to rattle now...........

speeder