Hello. My name is Dan, and today I doomsday prepped

[Jdesign]

Melt my heart with that bunny 

[m42b32]

Looks fantastic as usual! Love the sepia photos

[B C]

I had a bunny hole in my front yard with about 6 of them. I found this out as I was mowing the lawn and the ground suddenly gave birth to some furry little creatures. Fortunately I didnt mow over them, unfortunately a predatory bird knew this was coming and quick grabbed one as a snack. My wife was also watching as this happened and gave me the Lee Trevino Happy Gilmore look of shock and disbelief that I had somehow caused this travesty.

Love the photos! Excellent use of sepia, I normally am not a sucker for sepia but you have succeeded with it here

[P_Roloff]

Amazing pics, I dig the new sig too!

[Earl]

I have a z3 style mast from my compact that I won't be using=)

[straight6pwr]

thanks guys! wasnt sure about the sepia thing either

Earl said:

I have a z3 style mast from my compact that I won't be using=)

stubby version? sold!

[Earl]

I don't have a short antenna for it but I believe it's in good working order.

[straight6pwr]

Earl said:

I don't have a short antenna for it but I believe it's in good working order.

cool. shoot me a pic and a price and we'll get this rollin. i was annoyed to be out of milwaukee and have no radio reception this weekend...

[Earl]

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1897823023861101

$25?

[straight6pwr]

ill take it! paypal/willing to ship? i could also come pick it up.

[Earl]

straight6pwr said:

ill take it! paypal/willing to ship? i could also come pick it up.

Whatever would work best for you=) Let me quick find it in the garage tonight so I can be sure it didn't get legs and walk off

[straight6pwr]

aaaaand the parts go clunky clunk. my CSB sounds like its dead again. assuming my driveshaft is bad, causing the repeated issue from last year.  link for my reference

https://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?1834781-Failed-CSB-Bad-u-joint

at least its easy to replace, and I bought it from FCP so ill get a new one for free.

[straight6pwr]

woot woot, stubby antenna, thanks to earl giving me a great deal on the ti base. also got the long antenna, which I will keep in the trunk for rides into the boonies where reception goes to hell.  (to install just buy the match grommet. everything else is plug and play)

also finally had the opportunity to remove the trunk ballast. for those not familiar with e30s, there is a large amount of this super heavy, tar like weight ballast in the trunk of 6-cyl e30s for weight balance/sound deadening. it is not needed. to remove, wait for a hot day and leave your trunk open in the sun and it just pries right off with a hammer claw/screw driver. 

this stuff is heavier than it looks!

also swapped CSBs. although the driveshaft's u-joints spin freely, the front one has some play which i assume is the main cause of the CSB wearing quickly. i've got my eye out for a used e36 m3 driveshaft. the csb pulls off easily in two parts with a 3-jaw puller. to install the new one, I used a length of PVC (1-1/4, i believe) with the correct inner diameter and tapped it on.

[m42b32]

Wow, I had no idea that trunk tar stuff weighed so much! 

Stubby antenna looks great too!

[straight6pwr]

small updates.  a nice roaring/vibration sound started last weekend suddenly, when shifting the cars weight to the left side. pretty easy to diagnose as a wheel bearing. 

old vs. new 

the old hub pulled off by hand (bonus!) 

securing nut replaced, as well. torque to 210ft lbs. (or approximate if your torque wrench only goes to 100ftlbs.)

 

decided to pull apart the old bearing to see what wore out. "well there's your problem" 

also, i got a little more sound transmission than i liked through the car after removing the rear trunk tar, so i put a couple lbs of dynamat xtreme back in. solved. 

replaced a worn tie rod and had the car aligned. 

first autox is Sunday!!!!!! stayed tuned for video.

[straight6pwr]

been slacking on videos/photos from the summer. mostly because gopro changed their studio software and made it 100% useless, and the learning curve on free video software is steep enough to annoy me from finishing. anyways, snapped a photo I liked this weekend on a fishing expedition:

[SteelBlue]

Is this one of the few running E30s on here?

[jc43089]

Looks good!

[straight6pwr]

been collecting some photos of my car in its natural habitat from other photographers at autox days

[Jdesign]