e34 Touring
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wiring done. labeled it for anyone else who is thinking of doing this. because the e34 has the light check system, the wiring adapter you need is the kind that takes its power from the car's battery, and the splice wires to the lights only give the adapter the signal for which lights to turn on. that way the voltage drop/raise is so low the system doesn't throw a check light.
mounted it inside the passenger side panel since I don't really use this side for storage.
factory sound insulation fits right over the top of it so i can still put stuff in here if i want to with damaging anything.
don't mind the brown burned-looking crap on the ground wire. there was mystery goo on the bottom of the insulation that i didnt notice till it was too late.
Dan
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Looks great! I've been considering adding a hitch to my e46 wagon.
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Thanks!
did some touring things with the touring today. i custom built the tandem rack by re purposing a set of two regular bike holders. new tandem racks cost $300-400, I did this one for $15 in hardware (i found the racks on the side of the road)
Dan
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Amazing!!
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Ride a tandem bike by yourself from the rear seat
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Use the front pedals tho
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Looks awesome. Love the Alpinas?
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Looks awesome. Love the Alpinas?
BMW Style 32's, Alpina's have more spokes.
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BMW Style 32's, Alpina's have more spokes.
yup. 90% of the style for 25% of the cost = 100% worth it.
Dan
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welp, sold the tandem bought a kayak, so now the e34 has a kayak rack and hood loops.
Dan
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getting off topic? maybe, but who cares, this is what my 'car' is up to these days!
rolled with my 'jenky' clutch master on an 800 mile trip this week. she survived! visited friends, kayak fished, and camped in the back of the touring.
You can fit a full 'twin' length camp mattress in the back! i also built screens for the side doors to keep the hoards of mosquitoes out. (you can barely see them here)
car left at the boat launch
Don't know if anyone here fishes, but it was a great week for fishing. Picture below was a 40" muskie, best of the week. Also boated a 36" and a 24" muskie, and a personal record 22" 6lb largemouth!
Dan
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Awesome! Pulling muskies from a kayak has got to be a riot! The largest i've pulled into a kayak was a 24" northern and that was exciting! That's a pretty nice set up you got going on in the back of the touring.
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I love wagon camping. I camped in my e39 touring once this summer so far, and I've done it with previous Volvo wagons.
Good to see the touring being used as it should!
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Did you camp alone or was the wife there too?
Makes me think of the Top Gear Africa Special
sadly, rolling solo these days.
I loved that episode because of the e39. the part where he used a log (and proceeded to put it through the rear window) to help with hill starts because the throttle-by-wire was dying was freakin hilarious!
Awesome! Pulling muskies from a kayak has got to be a riot! The largest i've pulled into a kayak was a 24" northern and that was exciting! That's a pretty nice set up you got going on in the back of the touring.
yeah it was awesome, caught it on light gear (fishing for smallies) so it was 3x as fun! it was pulling me all over the place.
I love wagon camping. I camped in my e39 touring once this summer so far, and I've done it with previous Volvo wagons.
Good to see the touring being used as it should!
good form. its really got some advantages over a tent. 100% dry, guaranteed. quiet, if you are at a noisy campground. warmer and less damp on those chilled summer mornings. yeah, it would be nice to be able to sit up, but its just for sleeping anyhow.
Dan
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got some maintenance/upgrades done this weekend.
purty purts:
installed REVSHIFT 80A poly engine mounts. existing drivers side was shot and the poly will be needed if I ever go 4.0 swap. driver's side is a bitch on the v8 cars, but is really not that hard once you know whats going on. found lots of suggestion online, but this DIY is spot on, everything suggested worked http://www.e34addicts.com/Motor_Mounts
next was the oil pan gasket. three things lead me to changing the oil pan gasket. 1 - leak. 2 - needed an oil change. 3 - some oil pump nuts had removed themselves from the engine, i could hear them rattling in there. it is a common problem with m60s. I found 5 free bolts and a couple of very loose ones. reinstalled with loctite. disaster avoided.
pretty clean in there for 140k
1994's gasket was a jerk to remove, so this is the victory picture
new, updated gasket and some new bolts to replace the few that had fallen out of the motor lol
next was a new clutch master and return spring. wasnt as bad to change as I've heard. I was able to pull the master through the firewall with the line still connected and then remove it inside the car, which was very helpful. just had to disconnect the end at the slave cylinder to give it more freedom. that nice new braided line in the first picture was in case that was not possible, so I did not use it. anyone want it? m10x1.0 bubble flare ends, male one side, female the other, 26" long.
boom.
with the master cylinder out there is good room to install a new return spring, but even with the pedal pulled up all the way, the assembly is too long to get the bolt in.....damn german engineering. well, a pliers and some zipties helped with that. popped right in after that. i suppose this is how RC car hobbyists lower their cars?
last was the idler arm, but thats pretty boring so no pictures.
but WAIT, theres more..."the mystery of the POS clutch master" (which died after only 15k miles.)
these e34 ones are pretty well built, and generally last a really long time. they are all metal, externally and internally. i had to find out why my wallet was unexpected $100 lighter, so I took apart the old one.
the brand new looking old part. FEBI brand, duly noted.
dust boot and snap ring removed.
and here's all the internals. from left:cylinder with seals / washer and snap ring for connecting the pushrod / washer and snap ring for retaining all the internals / push rod.
and here is the sucking $0.10 washer which looks to have deformed, allowing for slack in the ball joint where the pushrod connects to the cylinder. no clue how this ended up happening, the washer just must have been a bad part.
Dan
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