Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

Hey guys,

I just wanted to share a heads up about something I just encountered. While prepping the headlight ears from my 1959 R60 for paint I noticed they were both cracked in the same place: There's a stress riser right at that point of transition where the folded-over bit ends. I figured I can't be the only one to have cracking there and thought you guys might all want to take a peek and see if yours are cracking too.

The good news is it's really easy to fix. Ten minutes per ear to weld up the crack and a little dremel grinding to ease the radius on that transition. I don't know that I totally eliminated the stress riser, but I figure I can just reweld the thing every sixty years whether it needs it or not

-Jon

Very common problem, sadly. I have a pile of cracked ones

Nice fix!

-Chris

Yeah, I figured it was likely a known issue. But a quick search for "cracked headlight ears" didn't come up with anything, so I thought I'd mention it.

Hey Chris, I have an idea! Why don't you send me your pile of cracked ones, I'll weld them up, then we can sell them and split the profits

-Jon

pretty sure we'd likely make more money off the shipping and handling fees... :p

-Chris