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Welcome ! Some tips to get you started... • It would be better to simply drain and refill the engine oil until you fully understand about the "whi...

• On the older models with the aluminum air box, both halves of the air box must be removed. • On the newer models with the plastic air box, the ent...

Next to never are the bearings or carb parts ever "bad". That is to say unusable. The Airhead is not from the age of the "disposable culture". Most of...

Mark - Welcome ! Heartily agree you should do your own work (as much as you are able) so that you can learn the bike and head off larger issues. ...

• The real BMW gaskets are jet black on the sealing surface, and dark gray on the edge. Most of the imposter gaskets are sandy tan. • Adding more an...

Wear at the drive spline is mainly caused by lack of lubrication and water protection. A waterproof or water-resistant grease must be added to the spl...

• Stop ! There most certainly are torque specs on the 2 nuts and center stud. 14 ft-lbs (max) on the center; 4 ft-lbs on the two 6mm. If you don't fol...

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The first "special tool" you need when installing new oil seals is a tube of P80. HERE

Dan - I used strips of self-adhesive, 3/4" wide weather striping on mine and they were perfect. Weather striping is supposed to be crushed, so it wo...

Larry - Welcome ! ► Like a lot of Airheads, the bike you found may have sat for a long while. The following article contains a list of the top 80%...

I've owned 3 or 4 of these brackets (on and off bikes) and IME, after 50 years they are all sort of tweaked. You cannot lay these on a surface plate a...

One reason you should use a strobe light is to have a visual indication of exactly what's going on with the ignition timing. The "blurry" factor is no...