1977 r100s restoration

[steve]

Hi guys, have only just joined, here`s a bit about myself, I live in Mandurah, I am restoring a 1977 R100S a bit of a story behind this restoration project, it all started when I was asked if I could help this guy called Pete to do a clean up of his yard and shed with a few of my mates, Pete and his wife are both disabled in wheel chairs, Pete hit a cow up north on his bike, and his wife has cereb - apalsy, by the way Pete is a collector of junk except one thing the BMW that he had in the shed, guess what! he gave it to me, but I must say it was in a terrible state,I didnt know what I was going to do with it wreck it or restore it, after some considerable thought and some good advice I decided to restore it to it`s former glory. I had never owned a BM in my life and had no intention to owning one up to now, so here I am with a machine that I am, well how can I put it, a very well engineered piece of machinery, very impressed. buy the way one thing I have left out till now is that I have got four CB 750 Honda Four`s ranging from my 1969 K model to my 1977 K7, if you know their history they were the super bikes in their time,in summing up the BM is a great bike, I am looking forward to getting it back on the road and enjoying going on club runs etc. P.S. I am looking for someone who knows the wiring on this bike any help will be greatly appreciated, regards Steve.

[Bry]

Sounds like fun, figure patience would be the key element in doing this!
If no one else comes up with some ideas, I hunted the net for the hell of it and found some links..

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/BMW-R100 ... 1287r28421

Guy above sells the schems..

http://doswheels.com/MaintenanceSchedule.htm -< some info from a guy who owns one.

http://www.whitehorsepress.com/product_ ... ts_id=2196 <- service manual and Haynes do one as well..

Lotsa info on the BMW riders page and IBMWR pages as well....

Internets fun for poking around to see what going!

O and if you find somewhere to buy patience, grab a couple of kilo's for me too! Be interesting to see how it turns out.

[steve]

Thanks for the info all comes in handy, I have finally taken all of the Jap crap off it, and found and replaced the Jap parts with the original parts, took a lot of hunting.The wiring harness was like a chopped up bowl of spaghet (spaghetti) I have two harnesses one is off a R1007 the other is off a R100 hopefully one will fit,if any one out there knows someone who knows how to get either one of these wiring looms operational on my bike I will be very appreciated. The frame will been sandblasted and painted as soon as this wet weather passes. Then up on the bench and away I go. regards Steve.

[Sterob]

Steve,
I'd recommend that if your wiring harnesses are tatty and old, to just bite the bullet and buy a new one. They are 30 years old after all and I don't think they are that expensive. A new one will make your life alot easier in the long run. If you do have a electrical problem, you will never be sure that its not the loom...:0)
I have restored 2 beemers and have bought new looms for both of them, straight up( the one for the R60/2 was rather expensive!) I have an electrical background and know how much a of a pain dodgy wiring is to fault find. Its also not too hard to install a new loom. Everythings colour coded and there is plenty ofhelp on the Net......
Sterob

[Bry]

Here's a fantastic page... select enter, follow the prompt through to your model and it pulls up the part numbers! really handy and it covers the '77 R100S!

http://www.realoem.com/bmw/

eg, harness page.. *yes, there are a lot of them!

http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do ... g=61&fg=05

fun page... to get part numbers and breakdowns of the sections...

Bry