hadabadachada
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The guy who I make do my chores ran away, I’m screwed…
2004 R1100S 67,000 miles
Replaced my original clutch slave at 50 some thousand miles, after I checked fluid and it seemed major brown. Figured I’d get ahead of a failure and replace with an EME part. Price is right, but ehhhhhh.
At pretty much 2000 miles on it, riding home on the highway, engagement started feeling weird, no clutch. Managed to get home with no issues, thank goodness it was later at night.
Complained that that seems major early to fail, we swapped for a new one. But not after a little back and forth. Put the old stock magura back in. The bearing turned nice and smooth on it, in comparison to the failed, obviously. Kept the EME no name part for back up.
Well today’s the day I need it. Riding to the bar after work, noticed the engagement point change and knew immediately. Praise the lord I was able to turn around on the highway and head back home, 50 miles, without having to stop, with no clutch. Amazing. Couple close ones.
So I’m taking everything apart now, bearing and everything is just trashed looks horrible.
Now the background is done, my current issues,
The EME replacement’s bearing is not smooth. There’s some roughness in there. Pretty rough compared to the stock magura bearing I mentioned above, after 50,000+ miles. So I’m expecting this one to fail quickly too. Im going to get some grease to pack in there tomorrow, maybe someone can help with what grease would be best? Hoping that will take some of the roughness out, doubt it.
So I’m going to order up an ol’ expensive OEM magura part from BMW to have when this one goes.
Can anyone chime in with any kind of wisdom in this situation? Im just curious what the people who actually know something have to say, because I don’t know much.
I do know that I have horrible luck with EME parts. These no name slave bearings seem like trash, and I wish there was some way I could replace them.
I’ve sent back two fuel pumps to them because they were INSANELY loud, both of them. Almost going to order some 50 dollar one off eBay to see if it’s any better, quieter.
So I’m probably looking to get OEM anything I need at this point after these issues. Thankfully they are great people and they’ve taken care of me with replacements and/or refunds.
Done rant, need to try and clean out the hole the slave cylinder goes in, can’t reach in for crap and there’s a lot of debris in there. Hopefully the fluid didn’t get on the clutch. Didn’t seem to slip riding home. And looked like most of the fluid wept out the missing cm of gasket I cut incase it leaked like I read somewhere.
2004 R1100S 67,000 miles
Replaced my original clutch slave at 50 some thousand miles, after I checked fluid and it seemed major brown. Figured I’d get ahead of a failure and replace with an EME part. Price is right, but ehhhhhh.
At pretty much 2000 miles on it, riding home on the highway, engagement started feeling weird, no clutch. Managed to get home with no issues, thank goodness it was later at night.
Complained that that seems major early to fail, we swapped for a new one. But not after a little back and forth. Put the old stock magura back in. The bearing turned nice and smooth on it, in comparison to the failed, obviously. Kept the EME no name part for back up.
Well today’s the day I need it. Riding to the bar after work, noticed the engagement point change and knew immediately. Praise the lord I was able to turn around on the highway and head back home, 50 miles, without having to stop, with no clutch. Amazing. Couple close ones.
So I’m taking everything apart now, bearing and everything is just trashed looks horrible.
Now the background is done, my current issues,
The EME replacement’s bearing is not smooth. There’s some roughness in there. Pretty rough compared to the stock magura bearing I mentioned above, after 50,000+ miles. So I’m expecting this one to fail quickly too. Im going to get some grease to pack in there tomorrow, maybe someone can help with what grease would be best? Hoping that will take some of the roughness out, doubt it.
So I’m going to order up an ol’ expensive OEM magura part from BMW to have when this one goes.
Can anyone chime in with any kind of wisdom in this situation? Im just curious what the people who actually know something have to say, because I don’t know much.
I do know that I have horrible luck with EME parts. These no name slave bearings seem like trash, and I wish there was some way I could replace them.
I’ve sent back two fuel pumps to them because they were INSANELY loud, both of them. Almost going to order some 50 dollar one off eBay to see if it’s any better, quieter.
So I’m probably looking to get OEM anything I need at this point after these issues. Thankfully they are great people and they’ve taken care of me with replacements and/or refunds.
Done rant, need to try and clean out the hole the slave cylinder goes in, can’t reach in for crap and there’s a lot of debris in there. Hopefully the fluid didn’t get on the clutch. Didn’t seem to slip riding home. And looked like most of the fluid wept out the missing cm of gasket I cut incase it leaked like I read somewhere.
