'88 E30
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Huge progress.
Moved the oil dry closer to the motor preparing for the inevitable.
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You can kind of see in the pic above that there is a service door. That goes into a "maintenance" room of sorts. It's maybe 8.5 x 13. (Furnace and water heater are in there) it's insulated & heated by one vent and maybe gets up to 55-60 degrees. The garage portion maybe gets up to 35-40 (not heated, but is insulated on all sides except the garage door -duh)
Had a bit of an issue. The engine hoist legs were just a tad too wide to fit through the service door..so the vehicles all went outside and work started on getting shit apart in the garage
PB blasted the bejesus out of the trans bolts. Those came off with some leverage. Trans was annoying to slide off because the lack of a load leveler on the hoist. It sucked hard using a bunch of tow straps to get stuff at the right angle
It came off except for one hitch, forgot to take off a bolt on the metal thing that goes in between the trans and the back of the engine. Once I stopped being and idiot, the trans popped off. Proceeded to remove clutch & flywheel
(I will get pics of clutch and stuff tomorrow, didn't really think of it until later)
So with the engine now pissing oil everywhere I started to feel at home.
(I grabbed the bag of floor dry from previous post and tossed that crap like it was Mardi Gras)
Took the yolk off the engine stand. Bolted it to the motor (used shitloads of washers, because shorter bolts would make too much sense)
Getting it to line up to the stand was easy enough-then came going through the door.
Long story short the stand didn't fit through because the door didn't open wide enough. So we took the door off and pushed the stand in the room.
Finished at 2:35am (mostly due to a run to Walmart @ 12:30am to buy more shit to catch the leaking shit
I'm going to tear more stuff off the motor tomorrow and start to clean it (earl should be fedexing me a half pallet of used toothbrushes) Then misplace hardware and never put it back together.
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Do work! The Mardi Gras sentence made me LOL.
@DrLeadFoot
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Pics that were promised
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Mid engine Moto-x?
Good god man, you need my flywheel!?
@DrLeadFoot
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Gonna get a different clutch/flywheel setup eventually (possibly flywheel from Drleadballs). Everything it pretty much of the engine now. No PS. No AC (just the AC bracket yet) no tensioners no intake no exhaust, etc.
I'm getting pretty familiar with the wire brush
I really hope that's the only "surprise" I find on this thing
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Mid engine Moto-x?
Good god man, you need my flywheel!?
lol - most likely, thing looks like it was used to cut concrete
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Gotta have that supermoto in at least one pic, huh?
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Gotta have that supermoto in at least one pic, huh?
Haha. Yep. It's my room mates.
It'll get torn down before the snow melts too
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Pics as of 20 minutes ago. It's crusty, but cleaning up alright
Most of the accessories are off
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Haha. Yep. It's my room mates. It'll get torn down before the snow melts too
Looks like the Triumph will need to go under the knife as well, unfortunately.
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About to go home and tear more crap apart
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Took more stuff off & worked off some of the crud.
And more junk came off
Had a metal water pump impeller. Neat
And a bmw oil filter
And some more pics
Popped off the oil filter housing
Cleaned more junks
That's about it, I still need to get the AC bracket off. But it's blocked
This is why I need four hands. Or. Friends.
Tomorrow I'll take more crap off and post more blurry pics
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Just going earl mode for now until I pick up an impact and or grow a pair and pop the head off
So far I've just been using a wire brush and some simple green. I'll hit it with some powa toolz eventually
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