E30 M52
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Hello turd.
Last night I replaced the clutch hardline that had rounded hardware, scrubbed the engine bay, and cut off the intercooler mounts I had welded on.
Tonight: more scrubbing and paint touchup in the engine bay. Nothing worth taking pictures of, but all necessary tasks to make me feel some level of satisfaction with my efforts.
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"You'll never get the crank bolt without the locking pin or at least the engine in the car"
"Nobody ever gets the jesus bolt loose at home, its red-loctited from the factory"
"Harbor freight tools are garbage"
"Electric impact guns are inferior to a traditional air impact"
Rubbish.
This is the 4th BMW crank bolt I have removed with this 6 year old HF electric impact gun.
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And that same impact got my rear axle nuts loose on my trailing arms after they were already off the car. *thumbs up*
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Why not just get an OBD1 timing cover and avoid the JB welding massacre that will be installing the coolant pipe.
Unless that won't work
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Re-RTV that shiz
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Black rtv on anything that touches oil, gray rtv on anything that touches coolant, copper rtv on anything that touches exhaust. Always and forever
JB weld on everything remaining?
1976 530i e12
1990 325ix e30
1992 325i e36
1995 740il e38
2001 330xi e46
^More to come
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If anybody in my area has experience with 24V cam removal/install/timing I invite you to join me on a magical cam replacement adventure this weekend.
This is your invitation.
You have no date posted for said event...
1976 530i e12
1990 325ix e30
1992 325i e36
1995 740il e38
2001 330xi e46
^More to come -
Also, I actually don't have any experience with 24v things, but I'll be happy to tell you what you've done wrong after something breaks.
I can vouch for his qualifications in this area.Â
10/10 would recommend -
I spent all my cam install time today scrubbing my garage floor with some concrete cleaner. Lets just say yesterday I earned an Oil-Dri sponsorship for my accurate scale depiction of the BP Gulf oil spill.
I also discovered the E36 oil pan on this engine (which i'm not using) is cracked so that saves me from having to try selling it.
My vamos rebuild starts with a gross negligence towards following instructions and a blatant disregard for left handed threads so I snapped the torx screw inside the deep bore of the helical gear. Unrepairable.
This is the helical gear
I didnt want to curse my vamos by getting my Dora gloves all dirty but unfortunately oil on precision machined aluminum is very slippery and the vamos piston got away from me.
I couldnt quite get a good grip so I used some vise-grips, but the handles were oily so I dropped it again.
So the broken screw really happened but luckily i had a spare vamos assembly to pick parts from so no usable vamos parts were harmed in this rebuild.
I installed the Beisan. Its spelled Beisan, not BeSian, Beisan, like Nissan. Just like how its a Giubo and not a Guibo, and a vamos instead of a vanos, wait, dammit!
The Beisan anti rattle ring was installed and the piston seals were replaced. Its nice and tight now. Just hope it all works.
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Get a new cam sensor oring. I forgot to replace mine. Healthy dose of rtv and way-too-small oring for the "fix"
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