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Re: '96 R1100RSL



At 10:56 AM 6/15/2006 -0700, Mick wrote:
>At 01:06 PM 6/15/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>>In a message dated 6/15/06 12:23:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>>bmwmick@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>>
>><< I'm curious, how did you change "Top and bottom ball joints" ?  I
>>  only see ONE ball joint on all the Telelever bikes.
>>   >>
>>
>>
>>IIRC it was only the GSs that had one, I have a '96 RSL and there's defintely
>>two.
>>
>>Cheers
>>Paul
>>NJ
>
>Paul,
>   I'm feeling pretty stupid here, can you point out the TWO ball joints
>on this diagram?  http://tinyurl.com/muwol  I only see one ball joint
>at the telelever, #13.
>
>Now I see it, Item #2 here http://tinyurl.com/qaf86

It seems they used a bearing for a while, then an upper ball joint
and now they have eliminated the upper ball joint with a bearing.
http://tinyurl.com/qw6na
Good trivia question.  :))
Thanks for the education.

Mick

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