Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

I want to put a different headlight lens on my 1952 R67/2, I found the correct year. How do I seperate the current attached headlight lens from the headlight reflector? Is there a trick I need to know before trying?

Thanks, Tom

hmm....Jeff's 1954 R51/3 picture shows it with km and not miles? So did they base miles vs km on the country the bike was shipped to?

Roland Slabon wrote a book entiled How to Restore Your Bmw Motorcycle Twins 1950-1969 . In there it talks about the correct speedo by year. I don't have the book right now but I remember that it was a Veigel throught 1953, then it went to a VDO speedo. Or maybe it switched after 1954, my memory isn'...

Bruce,

Very Nice Picture! Wins 1st place in my book!

Cheers, Tom

Thanks Darryl, I was able to get it apart with these directions. Now on to taking the transmission out and then shipping them both to Vech.

Cheers, Tom

Thanks Darryl, I was stuck at your bullet number 6 and I think the alignment of the yokes of the U-joint was what I was missing to free the drive shaft. I'll try it tonight when I get home from work. In your last bullet did you mean to say "seperate the driveshaft from the final drive"? Ch...

Thanks Darryl. Correction, I should have said - I have only removed the rear wheel drive from the rear "shock" tower. The rear wheel drive and the drive shaft are still together as a unit. I thought I could remove these while together from the hardy disk and then the hardy disk from the ou...

Picking up my "new" bike in Colorado and bringing it to Florida. Nice rock scenery around the seller's house.

I need some help guys. I have a drive shaft/gear box problem and I want to take them both out and ship them to Vech for repair. I started by taking the driveshaft out first by disassembling the rear shock - no problems there. The drive shaft is now free from the shock - but how do I remove it from t...

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