Splitting yarns!
The torturous Teutonic twin with 160,000 hard miles on the clocks is back at its belligerent worst!
This bike just seems to be fighting me at every turn. Whilst I have fettled a number of members of the R1100 family in the past, I have never stripped one this far apart, and whilst I have worked on an R1100 RS that had been properly abused some years ago, I never had to strip it back as far as this one. That one was a case of sticking plasters on to keep it functioning; it only ever got serviced if something broke. This one has had a harsher master, but has been regularly serviced, which is the key to high mileage. The plan this month is to strip the remainder of the engine, remove the gearbox and clutch and see what state the key components are in.
I started by removing the engine oil pump cover and releasing the engine oil feed pipe banjo bolt and securing cap
