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My experience is from a bad seal as mentioned above. The oil seen through the glass level indicator was muddy brown/chocolate. I was 1500 miles from home so I drained the corrupted oil and coolant and ...

JMHO but I don't bother with dielectric grease because it's messy and just attracts/retains dust. Unless the bike is in an extremely hostile corrosive environment I see no need for it.

Thanks again ...

Its not easy, but at some point you might want to check your injectors. Clean the area with air, at least, so as not to introduce filth into the engine.

Remove the injectors from the block leaving ...

Even if this isn't' the root cause of your problem, you should still read the last post on this thread for 93 K1100s:
http://www.k11og.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12951

Thanks FD. Actually, I did re ...

I've learned a lot here trying to fix engine miss problem. I ended up chasing electronic "gremlins that get in these bikes" as they age. To me the bike acted like it had a little water in th ...

I stand corrected, Duck.

Thanks Scott. Got em out. Just had to pull hard. Now, I'll send them off to Mr. Injector for cleaning. The engine was misfiring and I think its because I take a lot of short trips which I understan ...

Following procedure from Clymer manual one should supposedly just pull the fuel pipe (rail) straight away from the bike. With the electrical connectors unplugged I pulled pretty hard but it doesn't c ...

Overseas speedometer repaired my electrical problem via soldered jumper to bypass a faulty printed circuit. He also tweaked the calibration of my speedometer. I've not done a full test but everythin ...

superbrightleds.com wrote me that to identify which LEDs would work in my bike I'd need to send them a picture and/or a number off the bulb(s).

My green backlight bulbs are unnumbered but look exac ...

Jim,

I might be. Right now the unit is with Overseas Speedometer. He says he'll work on it this Friday/Saturday.

As for comparability with the K75 unit I doubt it too. In the ebay picture you ...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1993-BMW-k75s-gauges-speedometer-instrument-panel-speedo-tach-k100-k1100-r-k75-/262141739426?hash=item3d08dd81a2:g:aOEAAOSw4UtWRSNh&vxp=mtr

Would anyone be able to tell ...

Shared from another forum. This was as of June 2014 and the website is still active today. Austin Tx.

Rick Borth of www.speedometer.com is still repairing Kbike instrument clusters. He only repair ...

I can tell you that the +12v comes in on terminal 24 for all 5 back-lights.
However the grounds are spit, 3 lamps(including the one behind the clock) are connected to ground on pin 18, the other 2 ar ...

My replacement backlight bulbs went out so I thought to upgrade to LED. Upon disassembly I discovered the bulb filaments were intact. Further tests on the bench had the lights illuminated. All of m ...

yes. I'm concerned because of the change of behaviour of the gauge. These gauges. fail but I don't know how to test them. Does anyone know which VDO gauge will fit?

I like to work on these bikes but since I don't do it often I tend to make expensive mistakes. Therefore, I took the bike in for service, Lone Star BMW, Austin, Texas where I've had good results.

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Thank you hokyshifter, Jim, Scott, and Flying Duck.

hockeyshifter, So, headgasket leaks are not so uncommon. I should have thought to narrow my search to that. Further info: The same thing happe ...

On K11 radiator thread from 2009 regarding Hayden thermo switch I noted this in comment by dryheat:

"You are going to adjust the switch to turn the fan on according to the temp gauge on the bi ...

Phil, Really? I had heard you had to buy the whole assembly, about $500.

Saltcreek, Thanks. I'll try the JB Weld. Don't mind spending $50, but It's more fun to make do with a repair.