BanjoBoy
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Dunno if that's "rust" kinda looks like oily spooge to me? Really don't matter if'n it's rust, final drive, or u-joint, it shows lame ass engineering!The only way this happened when he was sitting still was for him to have basically dropped the clutch.Holy crap - that happened while he was sittng still?!2009 BMW RT with 60k miles on it. Owner Emelio Vazquez reported it broke in half while sitting at a stop light.
Oopsy.
I put nearly 90K on my 1150GS and beat the living **** out of it off road quite a bit. There were a lot of flat, wide open, 100 mph afternoons trying to keep up with KTM950's.... thank god they used to build them stronger
This IS NOT a final drive failure. It's a failure of the rear U-Joint. The rust colored dust indicates the drive shaft splines were dry and probably stopped sliding back and forth. That puts additional stress on the U-Joint and MAY have been the cause of the failure. The silver mark seen on the inner broken part indicate the U-Joint broke and contacted the housing front the inside. I've seen this before on other bikes.
However, as much fun as it is to simply call this a final drive failure, that is not what it is, nor is the photo in post #35.
How NHTSA has let this go on fer decades is unbelievable.
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