1992 BMW R100SGPD Need help!

Hi Everyone,

On the weekend I pulled the transmission in order to send it out to get the "C" clip installed and I'm thinking a taller 5th gear as well.

Confession time....I am an idiot. I carefully labelled everything I took off for ease of installation BUT pulling out the two engine pins that hold the motor to the frame I didn't pay attention to the orientation of the washers and spacers until they feel on the floor of the garage.

Can anyone tell me what spacers go where on the front pin, inside the frame tubes, as well as for the rear tube. I looked at the BMW manual, Haynes manual, as well as the Clymer, as well as on line Parts Fiche and I am getting conflicting information.

Also.....how the bleep do you get the kickstarter off the shaft at the back of the transmission. The manual says to "strike the pin sharply with a hammer", I tried a few taps with a small Ball Pein hammer with no luck. I am afraid to strike it harder to drive the pin out for fear of damaging/bending the splined shaft the kickstarter is connected to. Heat it?

Any help would be most appreciated. (Still thawing after working in a pretty well unheated garage in -6c weather....like I said I am an idiot.):eek1

When sitting on the bike.

Three thinner spacers on each side of the rear and one on the right front. The one thicker spacer on the left front.

MAXBMW is your friend #1 is the front pin



On the kicker. I can't help you there. If I were you I'd send it as is and let the rebuild shop figure it out. I could not get mine off either. I never use heat unless I know FOR A FACT that there is nothing that excess heat won't melt or deform.

That pin is a tapered wedge, (just like the pedals on my JC Higgins 3 speed bike!) and they get REALLY stuck. You might want to put the nut back on, screwed on enough to cover all the threads, and beat on that instead of the threaded end of the pin (or resign youself to buying a new pin!). Warming the kickstart pedal with a propane torch might help too. Many smacks with a relatively small hammer seems to work better than big smacks with a big hammer.

Dito on what Pirate said, heat is your friend!!!!! Spray with some penetrating oil. Don't have to worry about heat and the seals as your replacing them anyway.

BTW- what's the story on the kick on a GS, non-original tranny? Kick starters shouldn't be used too much as the shaft in the tranny will bend. If your kick sticks out from the side cover it's bent.

Many Thanks Adam. I have been following your excellent thread on rebuilding your GS. Once I started reading, I couldn't stop! GREAT information and documentation.

Thanks for the advice....I'll try some heat. A little heat...."stand AWAY from the plasma torch".

Nothing wrong with the kick...I just wanted to remove it so I can get the trany into a smaller box for shipping. I was just thinking that having that with that "kick" sticking out there is more chance of damage.:huh

Here's a pic of the parts in the area. http://www.maxbmwmotorcycles.com/fiche/DiagramsMain.aspx?vid=51623&rnd=03192010
I wouldn't exceed 400 degrees F on the kick pedal.
I'm also curious about your bike having a kick starter. My '82 R80GS had one, but none of the R100's I've owned have.

Looked at the fiche that was posted, is part 10 what you need to remove? Tapered pins can be a b... Now I have never removed a kick pedal retaining pin on a R 100, but have removed many tapered pins from many other assemblies. Usuallly the biggest problem you have is that the pin is not adequatly supported by a overhanging shaft. Two possible solutions, use a heavy piece of round stock or large hammer head, 4 puonds or more, placed behind the pin. Use a soft, brass, drift and strike sharply. Turning down a drift to the proper size with a hollow for the threads of the pin helps. You have to strike hard, very square, and once. This will take a second pair of hands and is least prefered. The other way is to use a two armed bearing puller, take a piece of alum. or steel and drill a blind hole in the block large enough for the pin to fit into, use a alum. round larger than the pin and turned to accept the tapered haed of the bearing puller, now hiook the arms on your block on the backside of the pin and use the puller as a press. Hope this is not to confusing, but a puller makes a great press for removing pins. In either case a lathe is a real help to fit the tooling to the job. One block goes on the side you are pressing towards, the other smaller piece of round protects the threads. Good luck, or stop by with a six of good ale or a dram of single malt and I will push it out for you.

Forgot about that one, have a couple in the back of the drawer, this kind of stuff is what hey are made for. Dead blow plastic hammers don't develop the "shock" needed to break this type of pin loose. Also if you use a puller/press a sharp strike on the puller screw once pressure is on will often break the pin loose.

Hi Raven,

I rechecked the engine mounting parts (refered to I guess as "pins") and I seem to have more spacers than the fiche you provided shows. The other piece of information is that I am the original owner and bought the bike new (so that eliminates a PO changing or substituing the shims nor has a dealer ever had cause to remove the pins for servicing)

I seem to have two of the "thick" 6mm spacers, some medium thickness washers (3), and some thin "wave washers. I have posted a pic below taken tonight in the garage.

While pulling the pins out, I seem to recall the thicker 6mm spacers being on the rear engine pin, inside the frame, on either side of the engine - BUT I might be wrong. I rechecked all my manuals (BMW, Haynes, and Clymer with no luck - the Clymer has some really poor B&W images that I can't make out, of the spacers)

If you, or any other 92 GSPD owner, could look at their machine and verify the spacer orientation I would be extremely grateful! I have found mistakes in the BMW Shop manual (a direct translation from German to English) with the exploded drawings being wrong. I am worried about getting the spacers with the wrong positioning and having a vibration. :eek1

Betcha someone was in there and thought that everything had to be symetrical...so they got another fat one to match the left front.

Could you post a picture from the side so we can tell the relative height comparison? Looks like you have a few extra washers that are wrong..

Should have 4 wave washers and the 4 (3+1) spacers.

Okay, I was just down at the garage and took the following image;

Starting left to right
6mm (x2)
2.36mm (x3)
1.18mm (x2)

Again, I am not sure if this represents all the washers/spacers as it kind of went "sproing" on the garage floor when I pulled the pins.

Can you help me out? :eek1

The 6mm are the spacers
The 1.18mm are wave washers and belong on the outside of the frame under the nut.
I still stick with going with Maxes Fisch and replace the spacers the way they are supposed to be. I had a lot of Fked up stuff on my bike....amazing what can get changed out over 25 years

Hey Adam,

First, many thanks for all your input with this. I pulled up Max's fiche on the computer and not only is there the exploded diagram BUT there is also digital images of the washers and spacers next to a rular!!! All shown have the gold anodized/or aladine finish to them. I only have the two thinner gold "washers" and not the much larger (almost 10mm) "spacer".

What had me baffled was that since I bought my bike new from the dealer (it was literally in the shipping crate and not assembled for delivery when I bought it) I made the assumption that the bike had never had the engine removed.

I never considered that when the bike was assembled at the factory they might have run out of a particular spacer and substituted stacked up washers to the appropriate thickess - after all these are spacers NOT bearing shims. Could have been the day after Oktorberfest as well.

I am going to buy the correct spacers and reassemble the engine based on the fiche. Again many thanks.

It's funny, one of the methods of pulling the trans is to actually pull the front spacer and tilt the engine. Don't know what drunk tech though of that one, but in returning the pin back I did what you did. Not having the common sense or advice to actually go and look at MAXBMW. I installed the big spacer on the oil cover side figuring that made more common sense. Not so....I didn't realize this until I put about 4K on the bike. When I went back to correct it the frame had bent and made putting the correct spacer a PITA. Gladly it's settled back where it's supposed to be now, as I pulled the engine and she slipped back in without so much as a grunt.

Holy crap. I just remembered that I had the "dealer" in Toronto do a spline lube some years back! I wonder what technique the tech used to gain access to the trans spline????

Thinking that a flat rate shop would want to do the job as fast as possable (read short cuts).... would they have pulled the engine pins, and loosened the swingarm pivots to seperate the engine/trans? If this was the case.....it could have been the dealer.:huh

Doubtful... the easiest way to pull the trans is to removed the swingarm pivots, pull it back and just lift the trans out... no need to move the engine mount bolts

Yup. But the BMW Factory repair manual at least for the R80G/S says to remove both pins and lift engine forward and tilt. It's right there

Well yeah, that's what the manual says... but in the time I worked for a BMW shop, spent time hanging at shops I have yet to see a trans pulled the way the manual says to...

And, I've had mine out at least five times only pulling the swing arm back and away!