Help..It just went..Snap!

[DJ Down Under]

I've just posted this on the old RR site...maybe someone here can help.

Has anyone replaced a broken indicator stalk before... :?:

Daily for almost five years I've backed my bike out of the single size door to my workshop without a problem doing the wiggle to squeeze through.

Yesterday while rushing through the doorway I clipped my rear indicator on the edge of the doorway and it went snap!....bugger!.bugger!.bugger!... :cry:

At first I thought about trying to glue it to fix it..but I ended up buying the new stalk..about $18 Aussie ( about $12 US).

Well I'll be buggered if I can work out how to get to the bolts that holds them..I'm hoping that someone here has been through it before..and can help.

Thanks.

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I even tryed turning this little thingamajig hoping it might help but it did nothing..and now I can't get it back...what's it for..anyone know?

DJ

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[Promethean]

There are some very limited instructions for a GS. I can only hope that they will work for an RR.

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21861

[Acacia]

I have not had a chance to look at how they go together mechanically and am now at work.

There is an adhesive that would work on the plastic if you could get a hold of some. One brand here in the US is Loctite H3000 - it is usually an industrial adhesive not found in hardware stores - a two part methacrylate ester and methacylic acid in part A and aldehyde-amine condensate in part B. Any brand of adhesive in this chemical family would work.

[fganger]

DJ,
I've replaced mine a couple of times, first when I put on the Jessie bags, and then when I took off the Jessie bags.

I'm getting ready to go to the zoo I call work. If you have not been able to figure it out or find the instructions by the time I get back home, I'll take a look at them again. My stinking memory is just so bad these days. Just add a message that you still need assistence.

"These days?" chimes in my Bonnie.:058:

Frank

[Deano]

I even tryed turning this little thingamajig hoping it might help but it did nothing..and now I can't get it back...what's it for..anyone know?

DJ

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I think that little thingamajig is part of a doohickie that holds the wiring bundle under the tail light cavity. I could not get mine back in either. I would not worry too much about it, unless your turn signal fix requires accessing that cavity. Then it should be easy to re-attach. Or not?

[DJ Down Under]

Waaa-Hooo!

It took most of the morning but it's all done now..here's those nuts that I couldn't get to..to replace the stalk.

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Here's the other end of the stalk...the bit that brakes off.

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Thanks to BMW most of the screws are the same size...no thanks to BMW there was about 50 screws and nuts and bolts that I had to take off...sheesh!

At least I could give all those hard to get to areas a good clean.

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I even got that thingamajig back in.. :003: ..and no bits left over. :110:

DJ

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[AZBMWRIDER]

DJ, what is that can of Mr. Sheen for...? Is it any good...? :104:


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[DJ Down Under]

DJ, what is that can of Mr. Sheen for...? Is it any good...?

You're kidding...right?...if not...Mr Sheen is the best thing since sliced bread.

I have kept my bike looking like new by using it...it's sooooooo special..:eusa_clap:

DJ

[AZBMWRIDER]

You're kidding...right?...if not...Mr Sheen is the best thing since sliced bread.

I have kept my bike looking like new by using it...it's sooooooo special..:eusa_clap:

DJ


Do you know if they sell it in the States..?

[Promethean]

Apparently only in the Oz, United Kingdom, Jamaica, and Kenya.


Do you know if they sell it in the States..?

[DJ Down Under]

Yes it's a real shame that you guys can't get the little man in a can.

DJ