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I plugged my nose and pretended I didn't smell oil burning
I'm down almost a quart for two months. I think it may just be the valve cover gasket leaking onto the manifold (crosses fingers).

Took the style 61s off the M5, put a set of style 5s on. Got a set of snow tires for the e23.

I picked up a new-to-me set of style 5s at 11pm last night and put them on this morning.

Drained the rear diff fluid to correct "level", as it was slightly overfilled just before it was mounted back on the car, hence the input seal weepage.......(I hope that's the reason!)

Replaced all the parking/turn bulbs with 'MisterFixIt' upgraded bulbs......noticeably brighter!

Replaced the front foglight glass lenses with nearly new (uncracked) ones.

Shot DeOxit into all electrical connections and finished it off with Bulb (Dielectric) Grease......freebie from Autozone.

Drove it. Hard. To 112 MPH. Then went home

Busy, busy couple of days.

Yesterday, I had the M5 brackets welded onto the frame rails and he found a pair of the plates leftover from an E36 kit that also used the Energy Suspension bushings, so that's all done. Then, welded the LR bumper bracket back together, so I could reinstall the rear bumper. Also put in new UCAs with urethane bushings (UBER MEGA AWESOME).

Then, I decided to see what was up with my drivers seat. The inner thigh bolster popped away from the frame, so I figured I'd need to have that welded. Unfortunately, there was a lot of flexing if I had the rear of the seat at any height other than the lowest, so I pulled the seat out and started disassembling it. Within 45 minutes I had it completely disassembled without leather, foam, etc and saw that the base cracked down the middle on each side. So, I took it in this morning to have it repaired and reinforced. Got it back around noon and started reassembly at around 5pm. By 6:30, I was happily motoring again and everything works perfectly.

Next up: Brake pads.

Drove it for the first time in a month! Love it!

Drove it easier than normal due to rain to my chemo. Then to an eye exam and then a 6a at the Ming. Pretty soon it will need exhaust work to pass inspection and the UCA bushings are getting bad too. BB Shiftless needs SF bushings bime by.

replaced water pump, hoses/hose clamps, and belts on the 535is. No more leakaroos!

Also found out during the process that it's time for a new wire set and related parts. Maybe next weekend.

Ripped off a coolant overflow bottle from my eta donor.

Replaced a faulty diff mount on the turbo car and re-tuned it with the new fuel pump installed.

Got new tires on my Borbet H's and put them on the new ETA, then used the ETA to jump start an airplane.

Installed the new-to-me foglight guards.

drove the piss out of it......made it from Statesville to Huntersville in 15 minutes for my birthday dinner

Happy Birthday.

I fit both in the garage again.

Washed it and then hot glued all of the felt trim on door opening seals. Looks almost new again. Installed new a-pillar trim on drivers side. I still have to fix heater valve, but so far so good with extra tight clamp job...

i washed it and cleaned the inside really good.
then i fixed a few issues i had with my side lights.

At somepoint this week I'll be plasti-dipping the hood vents and wiper arms and hopefully putting a touchup coat on my bumpers.

But as for today I just drove it, twas fun

Swapped out the 19lb injectors which were running way too rich and replaced originals. Car runs better than ever.

Waiting for Brody to send chip for 19lb injectors and will try them again when I finally install the Miller MAF.

Began troubleshooting sudden flakiness in tach. Cleaned and retightened valve cover ground strap, checked other grounds, rolled fuses. The search continues....

Let it sit....need to get the rear strut off the parts car, stuck.

Meanwhile, broke the windshield on the e46.....uggh!

added a new hood roundel this weekend and took some pictures

Just drove 300 miles to a Lemons race to watch it and a fellow Mye28 member participate. Not that 300 is any sort of record, just another tank of gas, but all in one day.

Just replaced all the shift bushings last night. The shifter's tight as hell now, I'd almost forgotten what it felt like

Had my son drive it to the inlaws' house about an hour away. Told him to keep it under 100; he said he did, but he got there a lot quicker than I did in the 735!

Xenocide wrote:Just replaced all the shift bushings last night. The shifter's tight as hell now, I'd almost forgotten what it felt like

That is a great fix, isn't it. I did the same a while back; it's great to be able to shift without the lever hitting the console!

Over the course of Fri/Sat/Sun:

-Replaced stock injectors (196K) with Cruzin rebuilt set
-Replaced CSV with new one (son of a f@cking bitch job!)
-Replaced FPR with new one
-Replaced all rubber fuel lines in engine bay
-Replaced valve cover gasket with new dealer one
-Adjusted wiper track 'north' on the AFM
-Cleaned/lubricated ICV and TB
-Readjusted throttle plate clearance and TPS
-Sprayed DeOxit into all above electrical connections

My cold start is still crappy, my idle is still lumpy, but I'm happy to report that the engine is smoother than ever, has more pep and is much more tractable, i.e. the overall drivability has greatly improved.

Next on the agenda: Fuel pressure testing (cold start problem) and propane gas sleuthing (idle problem, aside from fixing my known 'farting' leak at the manifold-to-downpipe gasket).

I love to tinker with these older, simpler machines. Proper perspective is needed, as mentioned recently in the M5/M535i forum, because you dont want to be overwhelmed with the 'what the hell is wrong with it now' syndrome. It is a learning experience, from which your DIY skills will only improve.

Great website.......thanks to all contributors!


Ed

Looked at it as I installed a birthday gift on the e12.

Rear sub frame bushings. Not sure how long it took, bloody mary's helped greatly. Satisfied that I never have to do this again, I'd beat the engineer that came up with this crap.
G'Day!

Spent yesterday polishing nuts and bolts for a head gasket replacement. Drank too much beer.

Learned a lot about the build of a 3.77L dinan stroker.

Put together a long parts list.

Thanks to Derrith, Don and Dan.

Saturday on the $500 Beat Her:
- pulled the godawful sunroof wind deflector (that thing was giving me shingles just thinking about it)
- properly secured rear center console piece (now I can pull the e-brake without the console moving with it)
- put in a new plastic cage so that I have a cig lighter for my radar detector
- tried to put in a radio, got it powered up, it ate my Eminem CD, but refused to play or eject it. Thought I wired it correctly...
- and found almost a dollar's worth of spare change. (right to the ash tray!)

slow and steady...
a ROLLING project. a ROLLING project... etc.

Limped it home after it started to run like shit.
Got out the e36 and headed to find e28 parts.

last few days: bled the air out of the cooling system, mounted my yakima bike rack, continued to trace down and maybe found the cause of the wacky tach.

- Bought a cheapo radio and wired it up.
- Installed my radar detector (not like I'm going anywhere quickly in THIS car)