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528e
Checked over the clutch R&R parts that came in yesterday.
Stopped by where it's parked to & dropped off said parts.
Put a battery charger on it because the battery was low.
Stopped by again this evening & started it up. And sighed. Soon...

735i
Removed the leaking coolant expansion tank.
Pulled the heater blower motor & lubed it.
Put on brand-spankin' new coolant expansion tank.
Changed the oil & filter with some 20W50.
R&R'd the front dogbones (with some anti-seize on the threads. Hopefully the nuts will come off a little easier next time!)
Cleaned the brake dust off of the front wheels & got a bit disgusted with the crappy clearcoat on them. Added a strip & polish job to my to-do list.
Drove it a little bit tonight, and wow, what a difference those new dogbones made! And the freshly-oiled blower fan... Look ma; no more squealing! And the engine sure likes the fresh oil change.

535 grey mouser: cut the holy hell out of the rear fender lips to finally accommodate the 17*8 et15 TSW anchors I am running till I drive the tread off the Toyo Proxes mounted on them...they just won't die.
Also installed some Saab trunk shocks for the hood, now I can do punkin chunkin with my hood when I want to.

found a M-Tech wheels at the yard today. Just put that on, cleaned up my dash and realized a small crack has turned into a big crack... F ing Pissed off! But yeah, the wheels was a great find for 11.00!

Had to replace a blown fuse on the 528e so I decided to clean and retension all the fuse holders and replace a few other iffy looking fuses.

Replaced the dogbones on the 635. Passenger side bolt/nut required several attempts with an impact gun so while I allowed the PB Blaster to work, I decided to check the condition of the center support bearing. Perfect shape other than not being preloaded (must have been the same guy that installed the differential mount backward). Took another crack at the passenger side dogbone with a butane torch, 3/4" breaker bar and 4 foot piece of pipe. Someone used red loctite on that one bolt for some reason.

Pushed it out of the garage to get to a set of wheels.

Pushed it back into the garage.

ElGuappo wrote:Also installed some Saab trunk shocks for the hood, now I can do punkin chunkin with my hood when I want to.

How about pigeons? Remember this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4_SNdsGcTA

davintosh wrote:

ElGuappo wrote:Also installed some Saab trunk shocks for the hood, now I can do punkin chunkin with my hood when I want to.

How about pigeons? Remember this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4_SNdsGcTA

YES!
Nice.

The snow is gone, so I got my M535i out of the garage for the first time since the end of October.

got it back on all fours after 2or 3 months of maintenance and wheel well repair.

let out a evil laugh and went home.

cant wait to drive it Wednesday night.

started prep work for paint on the new doors and fender. now i know why the paint lasts 26 years in the sun. bmw didn't mess around when they painted my car.

tomorrow more sanding and then primer

Sold it last Friday after two months of ownership. The car was right, just not right for me. I am not the type to hold on to something for a year just to avoid being ragged by my friends.

I sold it to an enthusiast who is a club member and europeon car repair shop onwer so I guess you could say I sent the car to someone who will treat it way better than I could.

Today I sent the g265/driveshaft sale link to the owner as this is most likey what he will do to the automatic car in the near future.

Got up at 5 a.m. Washed the wheels and windows, installed the new battery and cranked up the S38 for the first time in a month. Pulled her out of the garage for the first time this YEAR. Drove her to work before sunrise. I am looking out the window right now as she is parked next to Ldsbeaker's custom E30. We are so 80's like Airwolf and Knight Rider!

///MARINE wrote:We are so 80's like Airwolf and Knight Rider!

It doesn't get much more 80's than that, just maybe throw in the A-Team for the trifecta.

Drove the piss out of it!!

Put the 17" style 5s on the 535 since I had to take the track wheels off now that I got fuse 5 sorted.

Removed the Recaros from the 533 and replaced them with decent pearl beige manual E24 sport seats.

Then I put both cars back in the garage since I have to move one of my wheel fort installations tomorrow, so I need to use the touring instead of the planned excursion for the 535.

Changed the engine coolant temp sensor, therefore I had to do the coolant. Then started cleaning the engine bay...so ocd about this that I actually unbolted everything and started a deep clean from the right side and I made it to the block...the rest will be tomorrow. I also took off all front grill pieces as wel as the little grills on the hood and I am washing them tomorrow and reblackening them tomorrow somehow. I bought Mothers Back to Black, but some friends told me that that stuff sucks so I might just take it back and get something else.

Got new brakes on my car- after trying to put them on myself and figuring out that 2 bolts were torqued to the extreme. One of the bolts the shop got out- but the other one (a long silver bolt going into the caliper) couldn't be taken out even with a air gun.

Unhooked everything on the parts car that was attached to the motor/transmission in preparation for pulling said motor and transmission.

Would have it out tonight, but I nailed my elbow on the jackstand when the wrench slipped.

Made up my mind I'm gonna turbo the e28. Decided to purchase a B35 head when this tranny swap is done.

On another note: Tore my friends super eta motor down for just the block. Waiting on seals and bearings to reassemble. Shooting for an M20 2.7 stroker for his e30 325is.

All in all a good day, except for losing the ability to move my left arm in any useful fashion.

Got a temporary fix in for the steering box bracket. Both welds had failed, but the bracket was intact, so...
A 3/4 x 3 1/2 galvanized nipple spans the space from bottom of subframe to bottom of bracket almost perfectly. A 3/8 x 3.5 nipple fits inside the 3/4 and is a snug fit on a 7/16 x 6 bolt.
It's pretty darn stout and will hold me until I can get the mwrench fix done.
Sweet steering! Search rules!

Installed the new reverse light switch in the transmission, hooked up the new wires that go from the switch to the inside of the car via the shifter boot and Ta Da! Back-up lights that actually work.

Replaced all the newly shiny heat shields, along with the new transmission mounts, installed the drive shaft, torqued everything down

Drained the Trans lube and refilled with Redline MTL. Likewise for the Diff with Redline 75w-90.

Started touching up the Stone Guard/Seam Sealer but decided to eat dinner instead.

swatterssr wrote:I'll tell you later if it works.

It appears to have worked.

Went to the junkyard and pulled a nearly new shift boot, speedo that looks good and has non stripped odometer gears, and a bunch of dash lights and knobs. I also found a set of billy sports and pulled one of them out without hassle, then I went to pull the other one and it was visibly bent. Upon further inspection the first one was as well.

I ended up leaving with the shift boot, speedo, and misc bulbs/knobs for $8.23. I cant complain. It will also be nice to have a working speedometer rather than using the tach.

ElGuappo wrote:

///MARINE wrote:We are so 80's like Airwolf and Knight Rider!

It doesn't get much more 80's than that, just maybe throw in the A-Team for the trifecta.

How can you own an e28 without having a little MacGyver too!

I also drove the piss out of her

DXXXIIIi wrote:

ElGuappo wrote:

///MARINE wrote:We are so 80's like Airwolf and Knight Rider!

It doesn't get much more 80's than that, just maybe throw in the A-Team for the trifecta.

How can you own an e28 without having a little MacGyver too!

I also drove the piss out of her

I wanted to say: "We are so 80's like MacGyver, A-team, Airwolf, The Greatest American Hero, Spencer For Hire, Knight Rider and Hardcastle and McCormick", but I was trying to avoid the ensuing run on sentence!

Broke the pedal bracket. Shite!

Sherman and I got my 535i running!

It hadn't even so much as cranked over in at least 6 years! Now to get it ready for the road!

If anyone is interested here is my thread

http://www.mye28.com/viewtopic.php?t=70959

Put about 80 miles on it yesterday. I had some issues with turn signals not working, got those fixed, now I have working turn signals, brake lights, and side marker lights!

I took it through the car wash and forgot to turn the radio off until 1/2 way through. Yep, bent the antenna over. Bought a replacement at Autozone and got it fixed.

Yep, I'm almost there. Used my new Gloss Haus system today on the 528 and the results were great. She looks nice and glossy now. Spend most of the day working on getting the finish just right. It was worth the effort. Detailed the interior too. See my post in the general conversation forum about using Gloss Haus on those dull aluminum bumpers. What a great idea!

Ran new wires for the rear speakers and subwoofer (only for more depth in my music, not more volume), along with a fused 8 gauge power line and a 22 gauge trigger line for the amplifier.

Had the old beast move under her own power for the first time in a lllloooonnnnnggg time. Lots more power than the old yota