It's like the Same but Different: My 528e build
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I just bought myself an e28 parts car going to pick her up tomorrow I have all the stuff to do the 5 speed swap to mine and ill have leather and the better steering wheel... ODB will ride again and Im using the parts car to do the Frankenstein 240sx coilover e30ix setup but gonna cut the stock springs for now
1984 BMW 528e - SETA and manual swapped! M50 to come!!!
1988 BMW 528e - Need parts?
1991 Chevy C1500 (mighty 350 with TBI and Wisconsin weight reduction package)
1996 Mazda Miata (SOLD!!!)
1996 BMW 325i (Donor car)
1998 Chevrolet Corvette (BEAST)
2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee (BROKEN)
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I just bought myself an e28 parts car going to pick her up tomorrow I have all the stuff to do the 5 speed swap to mine and ill have leather and the better steering wheel... ODB will ride again and Im using the parts car to do the Frankenstein 240sx coilover e30ix setup but gonna cut the stock springs for now
Do tell me about this coilover setup, I've eard of the IX struts/springs in the fronts, but nothing of 240 struts/springs in the rear.
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Do tell me about this coilover setup, I've eard of the IX struts/springs in the fronts, but nothing of 240 struts/springs in the rear.
1984 BMW 528e - SETA and manual swapped! M50 to come!!!
1988 BMW 528e - Need parts?
1991 Chevy C1500 (mighty 350 with TBI and Wisconsin weight reduction package)
1996 Mazda Miata (SOLD!!!)
1996 BMW 325i (Donor car)
1998 Chevrolet Corvette (BEAST)
2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee (BROKEN)
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Small Update
Progress hasn't been going as fast as I wanted it to, but it never works out that way! I've been mainly spending my time parting out the old car so I can just get it out of the garage. Last week I did load some interior parts up into the truck and took them over to work to store in the car. I did a little clean up and got all the carpet installed in the trunk. I also cleaned up the rear shelf and speaker pods. That's the extent of my work so far on the new body
.During Clean Up
After, Carpet will need to be dyed.
Towing her back out after the first wash.
Tonight I was working in the garage trying to get the transmission off of the old motor and one of the bolts stripped.
#$%9^#!!!! I was out of cut off discs for my dremel so I will need to get some more to finish cutting off the bolt head tomorrow night. Hopefully that will be relatively easy and I can finally get the transmission in the new car. It's kind of a slim chance at this point I'll have the car running for the meet Sunday but I can still try 
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updates!
nice!
also, I spy rampelsausage.
If you need someone to stand around and make wild accusations about random things. lemme know. I'm in.
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This dude made mincemeat out of the stripped inverted torx bellhousing bolt on my trans. It was the top bolt so i had to pull the engine + trans from the car to get to it but if its in your parts car you could sawzall an access panel through the driveshaft tunnel (or maybe from the shift lever area) and work at it from the comfort of your drivers seat.
Simply find the best fit, smack it on with a hammer, remove it with ease with a ratchet. Took a whole 30 seconds vs. 10000 seconds of being angry without it.
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This dude made mincemeat out of the stripped inverted torx bellhousing bolt on my trans. It was the top bolt so i had to pull the engine + trans from the car to get to it but if its in your parts car you could sawzall an access panel through the driveshaft tunnel (or maybe from the shift lever area) and work at it from the comfort of your drivers seat.
Simply find the best fit, smack it on with a hammer, remove it with ease with a ratchet. Took a whole 30 seconds vs. 10000 seconds of being angry without it.
I second that, I have a set of these and they have made quick work of some very round bolts
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This dude made mincemeat out of the stripped inverted torx bellhousing bolt on my trans. It was the top bolt so i had to pull the engine + trans from the car to get to it but if its in your parts car you could sawzall an access panel through the driveshaft tunnel (or maybe from the shift lever area) and work at it from the comfort of your drivers seat.
Simply find the best fit, smack it on with a hammer, remove it with ease with a ratchet. Took a whole 30 seconds vs. 10000 seconds of being angry without it.
I'll see if they have a smaller sized set or if I could borrow one from work. Its the 8mm 6 point star bolt on the bottom of the bell housing. Since the engine/trans is out of the car I already started cutting through the bolt head though.
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Got the transmission off!! Feels good to finally wrestle that baby out of the garage. I also got all the clutch parts except one hard line I'll have to grab tomorrow night but for the most part the 5spd "re-swap" will be completed tomorrow night.
Its about time!
Ghetto ring gear holder, did the job!
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yay! there better be an admin,
in a bmw (not a suburban)
at the meet this weekend!!
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Parts I wanted to get on the car tonight.
My nice southern trans tunnel
Cleaned up the back of the block
Starter guide? Whatever its called is on. This is what I forgot last night
Dominic540i and I both doing pre 5er meet work
Flywheel and clutch mounted. This was before aligning the clutch plate
We weren't exactly sure which clutch pilot tool to use (we have a zillion at the dealer), but I used one that fit the best but something was still wrong as we couldn't get the input shaft to go into the pilot bearing. Neither Dominic or I have installed a trans before and after 45min of trying we still had no luck so I'm gonna bribe one of the techs to help me with this tomorrow. Hopefully my pilot bearing is serviceable.
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We were able to get the splines to mesh alright, just couldn't get the input shaft of the tranny into the pilot bearing on the crank.
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We were able to get the splines to mesh alright, just couldn't get the input shaft of the tranny into the pilot bearing on the crank.
Apparently the trick is to do it by feel without the transmission jack, just good 'ole muscle! So me and a lucky helper will give that a go.
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I clocked out early for work cause things were super slow and was able to get some help from the techs getting my trans in. We did end up realigning the clutch disc with a homemade tool that one of the techs had around. It was actually a cut off input shaft so the fit was perfect! Thanks again for the help Dominic
For those of you that haven't mated a transmission to an engine before, I guess it comes down to "the feel" when getting the input shaft into the pilot bearing. Even though we were using a heavy duty transmission jack, when it comes to that point its just there for support and you will need to wrestle the transmission around until everything slides together. We were able to get the trans pretty close but I did need to pull it tight with the bolts. Otherwise its a fairly simple procedure.
Here is a pic after we got the engine/trans mated. I only have 3 bolts in so I had to leave the jack underneath overnight. Tomorrow will be a busy day!
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So this happened sometime between now and Saturday night
. We are thinking that it might have been backed into by a tow truck but who knows. Dominic pointed it out to me as I was leaving work, so he was the first to notice. I hadn't been on that side of the lot so I haven't seen the car since I parked it Saturday night. This sucks cause now I'm back to square one basically although I'm still better off then the old car. Ughh! -
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
doesn't a classy joint like concours have security cameras?
Trans didn't get in tonight cause I forgot a gasket at home 
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