Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

Since the /2 doesn't have stock ports for the devices suggested previously, you'll have to go old school. And it should work for the /5. Plug shorting is where you put together an extension that screws into the top of the plug and into the end of the high tension lead. You use a long handle screwdri...

For what model bike? Plug shorting can be an acceptable approach with good results.

Very nice! Kudos on the troubleshooting steps. Weird that something like this just happens on its own.

Snowbum has a lengthy discussion of troubleshooting the alternator:

https://bmwmotorcycletech.info/trbleshootALT.htm

Do you mean #10 in this diagram?

https://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/showpa ... Id=34_0602

According to the listing, this particular lever was used on all /5 and /6 bikes.

The gas cap is a lot like the one on my /7. The tank of course is not, but could be a special tank like for police or something.

Check out this site...about 1/2 down the page:

https://anagramhq.com/es/que-hacemos/

Tommy is right as usual! I look closer at my diagram and I see that power from 56 first goes through the speedometer light then to ground. See...I can't understand these things!!

I'm looking at Ver 2.0 of the Rinckes booklet.

Use some kind of gas-friendly Loctite to hold it in place?

I did click on the image, but it's not like anything I've seen before. So I consulted something I'm more familiar with. The Knowledge Base Library has a number of owners manuals for the /2 series. My diagrams show a very specific ground point connected to terminal 56 in the headlight. I don't see th...

I can't make out the image very well, but I think terminal 56 on the main headlight board should be ground. Confirm that with your meter. Then follow that wire to your headlight switch. From the diagram I'm looking at, there should be a terminal 56 on the switch so that's ground. That seems to make ...