‘91 E30

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m42b32 said:

Scary! I'm glad nobody got hurt. Did the car roll back or did it spit the jack out the front??

I have the same skid plate (HIKfab) and I've been putting a hockey puck between the jack and the skid plate (the original rubber pad on the jack is gone). It deforms a bit as the car is lifted and seems to 'stick' a little better once it gets some angle between the two. 
 

Didn’t roll back, handbrake was set. Jack I was using had a rubber pad

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Rekpoint said:

I think my brothers e30 is running the same skid plate. Did it weld onto the frame rails? 

Yes

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straight6pwr said:

glad you're OK!

my guess it was the combination of a very smooth floor allowing the jack to roll easily (possibly a bit of oil residue or dampness?) and maybe going a little higher than normal.

when you jack under the plate from the front, you'll lose most of the contact between the jack plate and skid plate after only a few degrees of lift, per my half-assed diagram.  also the plate is a smooth surface, so there is nothing for the 'teeth' of the jack plate to catch on.

Yes - same way I have jacked it up a billion times before, this time it wasn’t having it. Usually I use a long use low pro gray jack. This time I was using the blue jack below. 

After it kicked out the blue one, I swapped to the gray and it lifted no issue. 

I have since started using a 2x6 inbetween the jack and the skid plate (orientated front to rear inbetween the two channels on the hikfab) to distribute the load and give the jack something to bite into.

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Finally fixed the valve cover leak, replaced the gasket and all the grommets. One of the studs was twisted apart so I had to rob from the red car. Brooke has been taking it to work all this week

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KaiserRolls said:

Finally fixed the valve cover leak, replaced the gasket and all the grommets. One of the studs was twisted apart so I had to rob from the red car. Brooke has been taking it to work all this week

When you going to let me take this beautiful beast to class?

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Rekpoint said:

When you going to let me take this beautiful beast to class?

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KaiserRolls said:

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Still leaks PS fluid, but most of everything else is buttoned up

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KaiserRolls said:

Still leaks PS fluid, but most of everything else is buttoned up

It is a BMW so if it didn't it must be empty.

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Sold the corbeaus, need to ditch the tan(?) carpet. Sounds like Dan has a good solution for the carpet part

pic of vomit colored carpet 

new seats should be here wednesday

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Looking forward to seeing this!

[SteelBlue]

Did you say that you were going to dye it? Forget what you said in the FB chat.

I think it took like 4 cans of the duplicolor stuff to do mine. Like others have said, black floor mats will cover the wear parts. I just bought these ones.

I rented one of the carpet steamers from Home Depot before hand, worked really well, makes a huge difference.

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SteelBlue said:

Did you say that you were going to dye it? Forget what you said in the FB chat.

I think it took like 4 cans of the duplicolor stuff to do mine. Like others have said, black floor mats will cover the wear parts. I just bought these ones.

I rented one of the carpet steamers from Home Depot before hand, worked really well, makes a huge difference.

thanks for info on the mats 
@straight6pwr has offered up his old carpet which looks to be gray/anthracite or whatever. Think I’ll just try cleaning that one up really well. If it doesn’t clean up all that well I’ll try the dye route

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KaiserRolls said:

thanks for info on the mats 
@straight6pwr has offered up his old carpet which looks to be gray/anthracite or whatever. Think I’ll just try cleaning that one up really well. If it doesn’t clean up all that well I’ll try the dye route 

I had the gray carpet in my car and used a couple cans of black SEM carpet dye and it worked very well - turned out much better than I anticipated it turning out.

[Jdesign]

I assume the SEM stuff is better, but has anyone had experience with using this:

You can buy it just about anywhere is and is super cheap. I have used red over white in the past and it worked well for the purpose, and it seems there are quite a few guys online that have used it with good results.

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I believe RIT dye requires full submerging of the carpet. Which probably won’t work with the foam backIng the e30 has

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KaiserRolls said:

I believe RIT dye requires full submerging of the carpet. Which probably won’t work with the foam backIng the e30 has 

You could always just put it in a bucket and stand on it

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Jdesign said:

You could always just put it in a bucket and stand on it

Foam will probably get ruined was my point

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Plans:

Clean/dye current carpet (if I can’t get dans)

purchase brackets/side mounts for different seats

install MS3/wire up wbo2 

I still have a bolt-in 4pt sitting in storage, idk what to do with. Sell/install

cleanup/install trunk carpets 

fix firewall steering shaft boot 

fix Slow PS leak

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I bought floor mats 

I’ll be back in a month with another insignificant update