I pull my final drive from underneath my K1100 today, and found 2 disturbing finds...
first the pivot bearing looked like this:
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clearly showing 3dents on the upper/inner ring.
Are there standard (SKF/FAG/Koyo/timken) bearing on the market to replace this pivot?
The cage (containing the rollers) also shows signs of un-roundness. but this is hard to show on camera.
The most disturbing bit was the fact that the bit in the next picture had clear up and down play (the bit hanging out was fine, the uni-joint seems ok, but the bit that is deeper in the housing (the other fork of the uni joint) could move!)
i mean this bit here just visible:
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Is there play allowed in there?