Congrats - be sure to add your pix to the proper thread!$nec wrote:After about 2 years of tossing and turning, I've finally picked the colour my e28 will be painted.
Now It'll be painted within 2 weeks and then I can upload some photos
I don't know if the US LKM does this, but with my euro LKM, only the marker lights stay on if I leave the headlights on (city lights in the smileys which used to be the bumper trim lights until the euro trim went on, front corner lights, and rear taillights). Saved my butt a few times now, since I like to have my headlights on in the rain and forget to turn them off1st 5er wrote:Wifey left the lights on. Jumped it.
Just the markers, same as the E28.cddallara wrote:I don't know if the US LKM does this, but with my euro LKM, only the marker lights stay on if I leave the headlights on (city lights in the smileys which used to be the bumper trim lights until the euro trim went on, front corner lights, and rear taillights). Saved my butt a few times now, since I like to have my headlights on in the rain and forget to turn them off1st 5er wrote:Wifey left the lights on. Jumped it.
). The Nissan's splash pans were thin plastic and held on by crappy pop rivets that seemed to work their way out by themselves. After it dropped on me once at 75mph, I started carrying extra rivets in the glove-box and checking it before and after every long trip. The Oddy's pans are held in by a combination of screws and sturdy rivets - I don't see the Honda's pan coming down by itself.
Looks like a good car in the pics! Miatas are fun little cars. I have two friends who have owned them- one still does and the other drove it year round.davintosh wrote:Didn't do much to them, other than add another to the stable; my middle son ended his hunt for a car of his own by pulling the trigger on a '92 Miata MX5. It's not a BMW, but it is right-wheel-drive, has the proper number of pedals under the dash & 5 speeds, and is a decently solid little car. I get the feeling a second car -- as a winter driver -- might be in his future though.
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Still need a key to start it?a wrote:After 3 1/2 months, the Ranger is driving again. It is a 600$ truck with at least 900$ of new parts. And waaay too much time. It is gonna have an easy life putting around town . It is far from perfect and still needs work.. How does it feel to need? It is battered little old Ford truck.. I like the 5 spd and its firm ride. Manual windows, no AC, ABS on the fritz. I have the clutch switch jumped out. with no plans to activate it. Old school. None of my previous sticks ever had one.
The rear springs are a literal PITA. Going back to 1998 - when we rebuilt the motor and did a bunch of other work - at that time the car got new springs all around. At the time, there was not a lot of parts availability for some of the old Fords. For example, a lot of time was spent in junkyards looking at old trucks to find the right exhaust manifolds for the FE-block 352 in this thing. Anyhow, the only springs we could find for the front were for a '60 full size, which were too high. So with the 'right' springs on the back, the nose was WAY high. I put some helper springs on the rear to balance it out a bit.a wrote:Yah ,its a beauty. How are the rear springs ? Old Ford s usually drive down the road with the hood emblem higher than the trunk key bezel.
I thought it was low from the last time I drove it, but it showed 3/8 on the gauge. At about mile 60 of a 70 mile round trip it started running on 5 cylinders. Hmmm, that's odd. Then 4, then 3... Crap, it still showed a quarter tank and the last I knew the light worked, and no light. So I pulled over to the side with it sort of still running, shut it off and called the wife who brought down the can of lawnmower gas. I guess it was about a gallon, took a minute to purge the lines, but it started up and ran fine. Filled up 8 or 10 miles later and it took 15.2. This is the exact same tank and sending unit and everything as an E28, but I don't know why it didn't go to empty or light the light. I may be in the market for a new sending unit/pickup. 
