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Guys I did it I did put the shaft in a vise and tried to undo the nut using a 5 feet lever I lift the work bench and the nut remains in place The workshop manual said the torque for that nut is around 200 Nm so it should be tight but man mine is tight tight. I guess I read someone let the Bevel Box in the bike and use the bevel box and brakes to hold the pice and then with a lever undo the nut. Any Ideas beside using the special tool I do not have, I can not borrow or I will not buy for sure. Talking about the tower nut I did a tool myself to undo this one As usual thanks for your help and thogths

Hi Guys This nut drive me crazy, how do you take it out #13 in the pic Thanks

20% of water help free the flavors I was told during a visit to a destilerie in Skie few years back

Denis I know you wrote this about four years ago but this Talisker bottle of yours ys faulty for sure a friend of mine bring one to home last month and it did not make the whole night, the evapotration rate was like five hours or so. Peated, salty, smoked or medium bodie I guess the scotch is like the womens to many to taste them all and every one has her own style but at the end I like them all

Congratulations Scud for the lastet adition to your stable as I always do before start to work in my V11 I check the forum for ispiration and I just finish the whole thread, impossile to find a better way to start congratulatios again. I was wodering since you already have some miles on the V11 could you enlight me about the differences between them

Thanks for the responses I did not know the main seal is directional specific, that is a reason to choose the OEM instead of the one I found.Suggestion where can I get it in USA? Thanks Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

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Hello guys a quick question about the size of the rear main oil seal of a 2001 Greeny V11 Sport here. I found locally a seal 68 53 8 (quick and cheap) but per the manual the seal size should be 68 53 10. My question is if the less taller seal will fit and what I must expect of it. Thanks in advance

Nice to hear that you and the Greeny made it with out problems, by know you have a big tale to the grand kids when times comes, Good pictures by the way I always said to my self "why you did not took more pics" because at the end they are a great memory support . Congratulation for the new addition to your stable

Congratulations swooshdave Mine does not look bad but yours looks awesome. Enjoy the ride and in any case you can ask to the forum wisdom and a solution will appear. I got my Greeny with lead in a wind that lead me to a race to bring her to the road and the forum help made it much more easy. Since that I have been enjoyed having her in my stable, yes she worries me a lot but to be fair I spent most time thinking in a possible problem than faced them. I wish to be in your position right now I planned to drive from L.A to Seattle once but could not make it but I least I drove a nothing special Honda Civic through the HW1 untill San Francisco and was a great experience I could not imagine how nice could be in the Greeny of course with good weather, I rode 120 miles yesterday under a poring rain and was not funny all the time. And if you need some advice of doing split lanes on sixth speed just PM here in Caracas Venezuela is kind national sport Good look and upload more pics of the adventure

Hi guys I have been very busy working on a few things at the same time, V11, GS, wife car and some surgical procedure to my daughter beside regular things, that is why my V11 progress is so slow. The welder could not made the job this weekend but that give me more time to prepare the piece to be weld. LowRyter you said What do you meant with bake, if I can do to mine in order to have a better result I wold like to try it and if you finally fab the reinforcement to hold the gearbox wold you share the schematics of the piece in order to be reproduce it here in Venezuela. As the time goes by and seeing the your bike disassembled I think I must speedy up mine since I relay on my memory to put her together again I will keep you updated of my progress when I have any

Hi guys I had a talk with the welder and he said it is doable and considering my situation I will try this option first, more now that I found a crack in the fork brace of my BMW GS . LowRyter I am so sorry to hear about your leak because it sound exact like mine, it is no easy to find the source because of the lot of things over the gearbox, my advice is to take the airbox and snorkels off grab a can of carburetor cleaner a give a deep clean to the area were it meet chassis look at up the pics of thread and I hope you do not find anything like my mines.

Thank guys for your comments, when I found the origin of the leak I said to me "finally I already now were the oil comes from and the complete disassembled of the bike is now justify" I was a little exited and did not realized at the moment the proportions of the damage due to the structural implications, the first time I saw the crack I thought welding was the last choice because of the need of the complete tear down and the possible warpage of the matting surfaces like the side cover, but now after read what you post I take a deeper look of the gearbox and have to admit how bad it is. I will look for a capable welder and evaluate the possibilities TIG or new case. Now the question is why this happened and how avoid to occur again vibration, over torque of the holding bolt, bad design? Thanks guys the saga continues, will back to you after my meeting with the welder and then we will see if I need a new case. Roberto

Brother thanks for the offer but the shipping will kill us but the pic of the MGcycle help a lot Thanks

Clean, deep and deburr the crack then epoxi it. I will add a spacer between the ears so the pressure applied by the holdig bolt do not crack it again

I already looked into the archives and found some threads about cracked gearboxes. My plan of attach is a deep clean and some heavy duty epoxy compound because is in the top of the gearbox crankcase. I also assume the failure become for over tight the frame bolt that hold the gearbox, in that case a spacer between the ears should help to prevent this happening again. I would like to hear yours comments. Regarding the engine oil leak behind the clutch I am pretty is not breather hose related, my next step is pulling the clutch assembly out, I am planning to fabricated a clutch tool the archives reveals that the bolt size is 12x1.5 mm but apparently some one mess with this before and I am have to rectified the crankshaft threads, I already have the bolt but could somebody help me with the diameter of the cylinder that Stein Dinse offerfor this task. Thanks in advance

I used some powder and tip the gearbox overnight and found this

A small advance in my leaking problems, since I have very limited resources at the moment I am working on my V11 as a side project slow but steady. Look what I found in my gearbox to frame attachment ears

Thanks Andy for your response I already disassembled the bike so I will manage my self to undo the nut but in the meanwhile when I start to undo the ring nut it moves until some point but not further and the pinion stop to turn also if I try to move it, Everything is clean no dirt or gunk in the ring nut threads, apparently the seal is moving out with the ring nut and get stuck with the nut. I can apply more force but better ask before broke something Thanks Roberto

Andy perfect timing for me to ask I am in the process of dealing with a few oil leaks, one of them comes from the pinion shaft (the brown one in the pic you posted). Could you tell me how do you take it out ?, the workshop manual tells to undo the ring nut then the pinion nut but I can see no way to take the ring nut with the pinion nut still in place. I should say I do not have the special tools so I have to manage myself and found an alternative way. Thanks in advance Roberto

Chuck thanks for your comments I do not have regrets about how far I went pulling the bike apart (did I said I enjoy the process), and since I already here why not took out the engine/gearbox unit by the manual and take advantage to perform some maintenance and repairs that could lead to a lot of trouble free miles ahead, if not at least i will get a more deeper knowledge of the bike I ride, anyway I have some more modest options to ride in the meanwhile . My only concern is I have problems finding the spares or how to get them due to the actual situation in Venezuela the bike could be out of service for some precious time

Thanks docc but the distributor backing plate is dry like a bone

Czakky I have pushed my bikes to their limit (that means me) and all of them have the same top speed, I do not feel comfortable at all at this range of speed but the adrenaline and testosterone cocktail sometimes push you close to the edge. But I guess the V11 is the fastest one