Evening folks,
Thought I’d share my progress with my R1100GS. I bought it in January and have thoroughly enjoyed owning it so far. I believe it was a previous forum members on here (@ronnie69 ?). Ace bike with an extensive history.
So far I’ve treated it to a full service, and fitted new brake pads.
I’ve had a couple of challenges along the way, firstly when fitting new pads I was torquing the caliper bolts (to 40 Nm) when one of them sheared. On further inspection it appeared to be hollow / drilled out… not too sure why this would have been done?
Subsequently, when fitting new plugs I noted that they appeared as if it’s running a bit rich, evidence on the numberplate would suggest the same thing. I did a bit of reading on the forum and ended up with a better understanding of cat code plugs so went looking. The bike had a beige 30 - 87a plug resting on top of the socket but not plugged in so I’ve added it back in and will see if this improves the rich running.
I’ll upload some photos when I figure out how to do that…
Cheers,
Cammy
Thought I’d share my progress with my R1100GS. I bought it in January and have thoroughly enjoyed owning it so far. I believe it was a previous forum members on here (@ronnie69 ?). Ace bike with an extensive history.
So far I’ve treated it to a full service, and fitted new brake pads.
I’ve had a couple of challenges along the way, firstly when fitting new pads I was torquing the caliper bolts (to 40 Nm) when one of them sheared. On further inspection it appeared to be hollow / drilled out… not too sure why this would have been done?
Subsequently, when fitting new plugs I noted that they appeared as if it’s running a bit rich, evidence on the numberplate would suggest the same thing. I did a bit of reading on the forum and ended up with a better understanding of cat code plugs so went looking. The bike had a beige 30 - 87a plug resting on top of the socket but not plugged in so I’ve added it back in and will see if this improves the rich running.
I’ll upload some photos when I figure out how to do that…
Cheers,
Cammy