The swing arm and rear drive are installed and you can read about how I did that here:

• 33 BMW R75/5 Install Swing Arm and Rear Drive

Next I install the rear brakes inside the rear drive, the rear brake lever and brake light switch and mount the powder coated battery box with new stainless steel Allen head bolts, wave washers and rubber bumpers into the frame.

Parts List

These are the new parts I used.
Part #                      Description                                         Qty
34 21 2 311 080      Brake shoe, Upper Rear                   (1)
34 21 2 311 081      Brake shoe, Lower Rear                   (1)
35 21 1 232 137      Wing nut brake rod, brass, polished (1)
34 21 1 230 264/5r  Brake shoes, Rear,set                      (1)
46 51 1 231 084      Battery support, rubber bumpers      (1)
007 46 R kit 007 SS*                                                         (1)
* Hucky’s Part #   Battery bracket mount kit, SS1

Rear Brake Hardware

Below are the parts that mount the rear brake shoes and the rear wheel.

At the top is the rear wheel axle (NOTE: The axle is not bent but appears so due to the angle the picture was taken at), washer and nut. The rear brake cam goes through the rear drive housing and has a felt and steel washer on the outside. The rear brake lever attaches to the splines on the end of the rear brake cam and has a steel cylinder that goes through the large holes on end of the brake lever. The rear threaded brake rod (not shown) passes through the small hole in the center of the cylinder and is secured with a brass wing nut (not shown).  The two springs are the same and attach to the shoes.

The rear brakes use different top and bottom shoes. The top shoe has angled ends (as shown by the top shoe in picture below) while the bottom shoe has one angled end (as shown on the bottom shoe in the picture below) on the side with the round cutout that goes on the fixed pivot pin in the rear drive.  The shoes I bought are from EBC so they don’t have the BMW part numbers on them.

Grease the Brake Pivot Pin and Brake Cam

I use CRC brake grease and put some on the pivot pin that is fixed in the rear drive and the removable brake cam rod and it’s cam faces.

I previously put Honda Moly-60 paste on the rear drive wheel splines when I temporarily mounted the rear wheel to help prevent the drive shaft from rotating while I tightened up the drive shaft bolts. I put a bit more on as some had transferred to the splines in the rear hub.

Install Rear Brake Cam Rod

I attached the steel washer on the inside of the brake cam rod (non-spline end) and pushed the spline end of the brake cam rod through the rear drive.

Then I put the felt ring over the spline end next to the outside of the rear brake housing.

Then I installed the brake lever with the socket head Allen bolt on the splines. I put some anti-seize on the bolt threads.

Install Brake Shoes

I installed the top brake shoe. It only goes one way due to the difference in the cut outs on the ends.

I hung the lower brake shoe by the springs from the upper shoe and positioned it so the cam rod end was on the bottom of the cam.

Then I pushed down on the bottom shoe and used a large screw driver to guide the round cutout end onto the fixed pivot. It wasn’t seated so I used a rubber mallet and tapped it until it seated on the round pin.

Then I applied brake cleaner to the pads and cleaned them in case some grease had gotten on the pads during installation.

Install Rear Brake Pedal Assembly

The next step is installing the rear brake pedal into the frame and attaching the threaded actuator rod to the rear brake lever.

The brake pedal rotates a large threaded pivot pin that is secured with a locking nut. The top of the brake pedal has a threaded hole for a bolt and nut that contact the rear brake light switch.

I put wheel bearing grease on the shaft of the pivot pin. Note the face of the pivot pin has a zerx fitting and a hole to let grease fill the housing for the pin. I filled the hole with grease and smeared some on the shaft and put some in the hole in the frame.

Here is how the hardware go on the shaft.

The bolt goes through the frame, then the large flat washer goes on the bolt shaft against the inside of the frame.

The brake pedal goes on threaded shaft, then the wave washer and finally the plastic locking nut.

The bolt and nut to actuate the rear brake light switch are screwed into the threaded hole at the top of the brake lever with the face of the bolt pointing to the rear.

Install Rear Brake Light Switch

The rear brake light switch mounts with two screws on the bracket inside the frame. There is a rubber cover for it, but I will put that on after I get the wiring harness installed and hooked up to the rear brake light switch.

I adjusted the bolt in the brake pedal until the pin in the brake light switch just fully extended when the brake pedal was up. When you push down on the brake pedal, the bolt moves forward and the pin retracts into the switch turning off the brake light. I’ll make final adjustments to it when the electrical system is installed.

Install Battery Box

I installed the powder coated battery box with some new stainless steel Allen head bolts and wave washers.  I put in new 10 new rubber bumpers into the holes in the box.

Here is the condition of the battery box at the start of the project. Significant improvement.

Final Product

Here’s the bike with the rear brakes installed and rear wheel mounted.