TehRaydarlover's AWD lover
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Bit of an update, I noticed that both of my drivers side front cv boots were torn so I decided it was time to swap in the axles I rebuild a while ago. One thing kinda led to another and I ended up replacing a lot of parts.
Got every thing pulled apart. Out with the old and in with the new
Took me two long days to get everything disassembled... break time, off to Europe
5 days in Paris, France
4 day in Luzern, Switzerland
Saw my first touring and it was an ix :') thing was unbelievable must have just been restored. You could perform surgery on the underside of this thing. I tried knocking on the door but no one was home
3 days in Salzburg, Austria
Then finally 3 days in Munich, Germany
Picked up some euro goodies at a junkyard in Munich
THEN THE BMW WELT AND MUSEUM!!!
Another 325ix touring!!
neat
Cleanest m20 ever
Z1
2002
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The ///M division, I was the first person in the museum because I had to catch my plane to go home, not sure if you are suppose to go up on the platform the cars are on but no one was around so I did haha.
Flying over Greenland
Enough fun back to Minnesota
Cleaning my smileys
Got everything ready to be put back together when I noticed a bit of a problem. Broken subframe bolt
Funny I didn't even notice it broke until I came back from vacation and was ready to put it all back together. The bolt stayed in the subframe when it came down.
I bought an extractor and tried to get the broken subframe bolt out but nothing would work. Soaked it in penetrating oil for 3 days, tried heating it with a torch, nothing... ended up drilling it out and retapping the hole. Put the subframe back on and the new bolt fit perfectly! Thank God! Such a relief seeing I had to drill it out with a hand drill.
Got the new smileys installed and the city lights all wired up after dealing with finding a break in the passengers side wiring.
Got the new front driveshaft all welded and painted
So after all the work I now have rebuilt front axles, new control arms with m3 offset bushings, motor mounts, power steering rack, pump, and reservoir, upper strut mounts, all new belts, euro smileys, German check panel, and new fluids in the front/rear diffs transmission, and transfer case. I also tracked down the broken wire for my oil level sensor so now I have no lights on the dash or check panel! yay
As a reward for all the work I went to a car show and found a 1957 Isetta! So cool!
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I think I might order a revshift poly subframe, diff, and trailing arm bushing kit this weekend, 80a hardness... thoughts? I wonder if they could make me a transfer case bushing...
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Power washed my engine bay and fried some relays
been having some weird random rough idle and no start issues. Swapped in some spare e28 relays and it fixed the no start but I still get the occasional rough idle when I first start the car... -
Damn! Good call! Went out and started it and when it started to stumble, I unplugged the TPS and it immediately shot back up to 900rmp. Can the TPS be adjusted or does it just need to be replaced? I do have a spare if needed.
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Pulled the tb off but one of the mounting screws for the tps is stripped. Kinda annoying.
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Installed the spare TPS and it still doesn't want to idle correctly.
when I unplug the TPS the rpms jump up to 900 where it should be. With it plugged in they are at around 6-700... makes me sad. -
Forgot about the idle issue, it went away I think it just took some time for something to get dried out.. power washing engine bay - never again
Also someone at a car show I went to took this with a real camera.. I like!
Also thanks Andy for the new fog light! got it in just in time for the show
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http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/pts/4639481413.html
Saw this add on craigslist and immediately jumped in the car. Let me know how I did, here's my haul:
s52 complete bottom end, exhaust manifolds w/o2 sensors, and valve cover- $250
i intake manifold - $20
hid kit - $10
m20 i head - $40
4 Dunlop Direzza Sport Z1 Star Spec - $60
Total investment - $380
By the time I got there the dash, race springs, e engine, 1 i engine and the seats were sold to people who paid him through paypal. lol cheaters I was the first one there :[
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maybe I already have a s52 crank for that haha, I kinda want to take the rods out of it but the BMW gods may forsaken me for disassembling a perfectly good bottom end just for the rods lol
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