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Replaced the cabin filters and cleaned some wheels that might go on it.

Karl Grau wrote:Replaced the cabin filters and cleaned some wheels that might go on it.

Chas, you spent too much time with the P car guys, polishing the inside of the wheel? And looks like a nice E39 you stole, I thought the new one I just got was low mileage at 83K, but yours?

Mike W. wrote:Chas, you spent too much time with the P car guys, polishing the inside of the wheel?

The placed that refinished them did it for an extra paltry amount so I couldn't say no.

Mike W. wrote:And looks like a nice E39 you stole, I thought the new one I just got was low mileage at 83K, but yours?

Thanks, it was a long four days between putting the deposit down and picking it up. Some douchebag flipper/dealer showed up offering him more than the asking price but the seller wanted to go to an enthusiast (I drove the e28 ) so he told the guy to pound sand.

I bought a first aid kit a while ago that mounts to the front of the passenger seat but unfortunately it was gray. I did some searching and it seems SEM 'Sandstone' is very close to BMW Sandbeige I sprayed a test piece and now I'm painting the kit Sandstone.

It's a lot closer match than it appears in this pic.
I also programmed the Homelink garage door opener I didn't realize I had until last night.

On the Kleemann G55, Replaced Aux fan, replaced fan clutch, replaced fan belt, adjusted one of the pulleys outwards using a washerfor better fitment of the fanbelt on the pulley, and replaced hood shock.

Here's a shot of the pulley before adjusting its positioning



Still waiting on the replacement fusebox which melted due to radiator cooling fan fuses coming loose causing arc'ing and heat.... which allowed for some of the work I mentioned earlier.

I put an alternator on the e34 (thanks Todd!) and started it yesterday after shoveling my driveway.

I drove it to work today. YAY! Is nice to be back.

Fixed the X5's hazard switch (free fix, 5 minute job) and replaced a turn indicator. For the 1600-2, I replaced the casters in the crappy Chinesium tire dollies with good bearing-hub casters. Now I can roll it out of the way much more easily to work on the track car. Required cutting some pull handles off the dolly bases to clear the larger footprint of the HD casters. $100 and 90 minutes well spent.

Put the Genuine Land Rover TDi tstat on the Discovery. 70 MPH temps dropped from 235F to 195F. Something was def wrong with the year old OE one. Idle temps are down to 199F instead of 221F.....so the aux fan no longer runs all the time (cuts on at 212F).

Bled the brakes as well. Now I don't have to push the pedal 2x to get good pedal. Feels like it could be better, but def a improvement.

Much much happier.

Also swapped the plastic diff fill plugs (THX BMW) with brass ones.

Now the only fluids I really need to swap out are PS, ATF, and T-case....then we're totally baselined there.

Not today, but over the past couple of weekends. The old E39 touring, I smogged it, no problems with 250K and redid the clearcoat. A sizeable job, but not huge. It was only failed from the front doors forward so far less than the whole car. Came out good, not great, but good. A long thread here.

http://www.mye28.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=131715

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Replaced the windshield washer pump. It's conveniently located behind the fender liner so you have to remove the wheel and fender liner.

Since I already had one wheel off, I put the Style 5s on so I can refinish the Style 42s. Black centers aren't very fetching on a blue car.

Karl Grau wrote:Replaced the windshield washer pump. It's conveniently located behind the fender liner so you have to remove the wheel and fender liner.

Since I already had one wheel off, I put the Style 5s on so I can refinish the Style 42s. Black centers aren't very fetching on a blue car.

We really do need an E39 subforum. I know, we need Jeremy to get one.

Mike W. wrote:We really do need an E39 subforum.

e46 comes first.

davintosh wrote:

Mike W. wrote:We really do need an E39 subforum.

e46 comes first.

And e34 before that.

1st 5er wrote:

davintosh wrote:

Mike W. wrote:We really do need an E39 subforum.

e46 comes first.

And e34 before that.

Wait, I thought this entire site was for e34s.....?

1st 5er wrote:

davintosh wrote:

Mike W. wrote:We really do need an E39 subforum.

e46 comes first.

And e34 before that.

Our wagon’s a little scruffy but I love it. We had a 5 speed 528it (sport pkg) years ago and I've kicked myself over and over for selling it. I bought this one a couple of years ago as kind of a family truckster and for my teenagers to drive. The front bumper has always bugged me; with broken grills, a big spit on the bottom, a broken fog light, and deep scratches by both head lights. I did get an estimate to have it repaired but it was a quarter of what I paid for the car.

I decided to wait and see if I got lucky. Well, that happened a couple of weeks ago. I noticed a 540 (non-running, salvage title) on CL that the guy was either going to sell or part out. From the pictures, I could tell it had a bunch of M5 goodies and it was black. I called the guy and asked him what the paint code was (I had to tell him where to look), sure enough, it was jet black just like our wagon. The car was done mechanically and interior was horrible but the body was in great shape. I offered him 100 bucks for the bumper, he said no and that he had a guy that wanted the whole front end. I guess I’ve been watching too many ‘American Pickers’ because went for the ‘bundle’. I offered him $500 for the bumper and the 17X8 Style 5 wheels. He came back with $600 and we shook hands. I put the wheels on CL for $700 (they needed refinishing) and sold them the next day for $600. So long story, long, I got the M5 bumper (painted the exact color of our car) for free!

Not a huge fan of the amber fog lights but they are in good shape so they’re staying.

^^ That bumper looks GREAT! I love me some M5 action on a Touring!

It was a busy delivery day for the Touring. I got the diff back from Jim Blanton. It's gorgeous. I'll get pictures this weekend as we reinstall it.

I also got these from the State:

That's a cool plate (and I'm not a personalized plate kinda guy). Does New York no longer stamp the numbers/letters in the traditional way?

Very few states do anymore.

NY still stamps, but only for the non-personalized plates.

I've also never been a personalized-plate kinda guy, though I began to warm to the idea when Jen got the RETROMOM plates on the Townsman. This car I felt was worthy of something different, and it's not yet old enough for 'vintage' plates in NY. I've also got the California plates with the same text from the previous owner.

I have not done personalized plates on the other cars, though I do have 'vintage' NYS plates on the e28M5 (Liberty plate), the '71 F100 (yellow-on-blue farm plate), and I'm doing the paperwork for the '59 (black on yellow).

No one will care here, but my other BMW now is '12 135i M-sport DCT. Over the winter, I've been setting the car up for DD, autox and the occasional track day. I just sent the E-diff out to Mfactory for a limited slip install. I got an Eibach Multi Pro R1 coil over kit for free. The dampers are at Eibach now getting rebuilt. (They are really bad at returning phone calls) I already installed solid M3 subframe bushings and I picked up a set of VMR 19" wheels with a set of P-Zeros I got from tire rack on clearance. The plan is to have a dedicated set of track wheels, summer DD wheels and winter wheels.

That's a fun car, and one of the few I've seriously considered as a DD replacement for the ZHP. Sounds like you are setting it up for serious fun!

Put a camber kit on the rear of my track toy CRX

Put the summer tires back on Julie's car. Because I really want it to snow here so I can go skiing.

I washed my car for the first time in about three months.

Touring work - over the past couple of weekends I've put back together the engine (new cooling hoses, water pump, thermostat, belts, fan clutch, expansion tank, etc), cleaned up the steering lines enough to find that the 'leaking hose' was actually just a leaking gasket at the PS fluid reservoir, swapped the grommets on the brake fluid reservoir and bled the brakes, and replaced all of the diff bushings and the other rear subframe mount. Every mount or bushing other than the trailing arm bushings has been replaced in the past year or so, most of them since August. I've also replaced the TPS, CTS, ATS, throttle cables, and bunch of interior bits that were not quite right. All in all a nice bit of work.

This weekend, the rebuilt diff and new halfshafts were finally reinstalled. The old diff bore a striking resemblance to cek's boat-anchor diff. The car's got 230K on it and is not *clean* underneath, but it's not at all rusted, so finding the original diff look like this was a huge surprise. The front of the case was dry, crusty and devoid of paint. At least one output shaft seal and the rear cover seal were leaking, so the back and bottom were caked with oil-dirt. Nasty!


That diff was shipped out to Jim Blanton, who was able to source a much fresher case and rear cover. What was reinstalled Saturday was this:



As has always been the case, Jim does incredible work and always goes the extra mile. Now if only the roads would clear up so I could drive this thing......

The remaining work for this year revolve around bulbs in the dash and AC panel, and reverting back to the repaired OE head unit. I'm waiting for warmer temperatures for this work to minimize any work on cold, brittle plastic.