1972 BMW R75/5 - Valve Push Rod

[b25bsaboy]

Good evening to you all,

Pulled the heads and cylinder barrels off the 72 BMW R75/5 and to my surprise I discover that the value push rods are not all the same and one in particular had no holes on each end for the oil gallery. I thought this odd, as all the R75 & R 100 were the same with these small holes.

Is this something to be concerned about, as I am thinking of replacing all of them.

 

[PGlaves]

Yes

 

[james.a]

Unless you buy a bike from the original owner with low miles, you are likely to find all sorts of deviate goings on.
You can replace them all if you wish, but I would point out that the motor was running that way at some place in time. Push rods are, essentially, long spacers, nothing more. My understanding of the oiling system does not indicate an oil gallery anywhere near the push rods.

 

[dennisdarrow]

Had that problem with my 52 flathead V8 Ford... ….Change em out for sure...…...

 

[b25bsaboy]

Good evening to you all,

Pulled the heads and cylinder barrels off the 72 BMW R75/5 and to my surprise I discover that the value push rods are not all the same and one in particular had no holes on each end for the oil gallery. I thought this odd, as all the R75 & R 100 were the same with these small holes.

Is this something to be concerned about, as I am thinking of replacing all of them.

Thank you for the response to my question for the valve push rod question. Late last night I contacted a re-seller and wanted to buy some value push rods from him that he had for sale that looked correct and they were 10.75" long. He came back to me this morning and advised that I needed part # 11 32 1 259 607 push rod they changed in 09/75 they are 27.5mm or inches? long. Now I am confused, as I think that there is a mis print on his email response

 

[dennisdarrow]

open your thumb and forefinger......Make the "C" that is about 28mm...….The wrench size for your swing arm locknut is 27mm...…….Perhaps you are the fella means centimeters.

Measure ALL OF YOUR EXISTING devices, 4, and I bet that is the size you need. Probably need to have metric.....

 

[20774]

I thought I had seen an image of different pushrods laid out beside each other...can't seem to find that now. It does appear that the length changed after 9/75. My Haynes and this site:

https://w6rec.com/bmw-motorcycle-engines-specs-for-the-5-and-later-models/

show that the post 75 bikes have 275mm pushrods but the length for anything else is not available...that's probably the misprint as in 275 and 27.5mm.