[Shop-talk] Retaining ring pliers?

[Doug Braun]

$2900 for a short block without cylinders or pistons?
Yow!

Doug

--- On Mon,
1/4/10, Jim Franklin <jamesf at groupwbench.org> wrote:

> From: Jim Franklin
<jamesf at groupwbench.org>
> Subject: [Shop-talk] Retaining ring pliers?
> To:
"Shop Talk" <shop-talk at autox.team.net>
> Date: Monday, January 4, 2010, 5:37
PM
> I'm helping a friend fix a BMW
> starter. The starter gear slides along a
shaft and is
> stopped by a collar held in by a retaining ring. The ring is
>
a round section type like these:
> 
>
http://www.rotorclip.com/cat_pdfs/rhc.pdf
> 
> and it simultaneously fits in a
groove in the shaft, and in
> a groove in the collar. Here's the fiche from
the bike, and
> "Starter Single Parts" will open the diagram:
> 
>
http://www.maxbmw.com/fiche/DiagramsMain.aspx?model=R1100Sb=011997-092004