The E46 M3 Journal

[DrLeadFoot]

One bolt is in. I'll button the rest up soon if the rain holds off.

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[DrLeadFoot]

Is the rod joint pin closest to the trans tapered?  I have the pin 1/4 of the way in and it won't budge.  It rotates the gear selector shaft on the trans when I turn the SMG side.  

What gives?!  I've used an extension and a hammer and nothing moves.

[DrLeadFoot]

So close!

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[YoungCR]

Any progress with that joint pin?

[DrLeadFoot]

Replaced the pressure plate now I'm getting an error code "83"

Gear Position Sensor?

[wasnt m3]

DrLeadFoot said:

So close!

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To what, parting it out? Hahaha 

Hope you get this figured out soon.

[DrLeadFoot]

It did move a foot under its own power. No engine light!!

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[KaiserRolls]

Time for burnouts!!

[DrLeadFoot]

KaiserRolls said:

Time for burnouts!!

That's all it wants to do! It slams into gear uber hard.

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[DrLeadFoot]

Drove it around the block!! Doesn't shift into second.

I bled the actuator 3 or 4 times and it allowed me to ease on the gas and slowly grab 1st gear like it normally did. Maybe I'll just keep on bleeding the actuator and see what happens. At least I can drive it to a show now if needed.

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[B C]

I would rage

[KaiserRolls]

Snap said:

I would rage drift it into a curb

FTFY

[straight6pwr]

this is what happens when those BMW engineers get all redneck with stuff. they are usually pretty good about not doing that.

"hey! lets make an 'SMG' transmission. we will just attach a thinga-ma-bob that moves the lever around to the regular manual box and make is super complicated so it looks like new tech, instead of designing a new transmission."

[DrLeadFoot]

Drive it to a shop... Not a show! Lol.

I rage drifted my E30 M3 into a curb. Trying to keep this one between the lines.

Tied up with work lately but mid next week I'll run the program as many times as I can while I excavate items from my garage and try to find an E30 that I know is in there somewhere.

[DrLeadFoot]

Ran the program and couple of more times while I was cleaning out the garage.

It still "cannot find the center of the shift path."

I'm leaning towards taking it to the dealer and just get it fixed. Maybe their software is better than the Windows XP laptop I have.

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[CMart]

You did good, congrats on all of your progress.

[patsbimmer1]

No shame in taking to a shop.  Your time is worth more than the frustration of fucking with this.

[i_love_cars]

Pat is right. At some point there is enormous diminishing return on your time being sunk into this.

[DrLeadFoot]

Thanks for the support guys!

Update: The tech feels that it might have something to do with the shift pin plug in replaced. Maybe it is in there sideways.

I told him to do whatever it needs as I just want to go 150mph asap.

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[i_love_cars]

rofl @ 150mph asap.  no one was surprised when they read that