Hi all,
Bought a K75T a few months ago, been slowly getting it roadworthy again. I bought it liking the look but not really knowing what I was getting myself into, i.e. what shaft splines were or any of the other quirks of these bikes to look at when buying used.
The bike I bought has 35000 miles on the odometer, but the odometer doesn't work. Front end had a little pulsing under braking but it shifted smooth on my test drive at the buyers house. The headlight fairing was cracked, held together with piece of cardboard. Most egregiously the coolant reservoir tank was missing! :mbird The return hose was routed through the frame to the ground. I'm ashamed to say I didn't notice that until I got it home...
Once home I ordered the Clymer manual and got to work. I read up on the shaft spline job and started pulling pieces off. Luckily the splines weren't too shot. They were covered in the red BMW lube at some point.
Next was a valve check because there was some hesitation when opening the throttle. The exhaust was super tight, measured 0.215 mm. Now I'm just waiting on the new shims to arrive and it should be road ready again. I stripped the crappy black spray job off the tank and I'm in the process of painting the other plastics graphite gray. Think I'm going to leave the tank bare for now, I like the burnished aluminum look.
This winter I want to strip it down to the frame and get it blasted and coated, couple spots of rust in places. Don't know what to do about the wheels and fork sliders, they're all heavily oxidized. I'd love to hear peoples opinions about painting the wheels, the rear is a drummy.
See my build thread here:
http://www.motobrick.com/index.php/topic,8732.0.html
