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A little touch up cleaning in the engine bay, then washed the M&Ms.

MMMMM... Love that engine bay. Between the 60 year old house and the horses out back mine is always dusty. Maybe you'll inspire me...

Worked on my MK1 ...dropped it a bit more and took her for a ride on her new shoes.

Saturday, replaced the cracked intake boot on the X5; another PITA job on that car. Is it really necessary to have the throttle body underneath the intake manifold? And couldn't anybody think of a better way to connect the idle control valve to the intake than that funky nipple that comes off the boot, and requires messing with yet another hose clamp that's tucked away up out of sight? Sheesh. What should have been a ten minute job took an hour & a half, what with taking off the all the other parts of the intake in front of that boot.


/rant

Then yesterday I picked up a nice set of five 16" e39 Style 33 wheels with good Continental tires for the e32. Ordered up some metal hubcentric rings for them; bye-bye ratty old Kuhmos! Maybe I'll finally get around to refinishing those BBSs.

geordi wrote:A little touch up cleaning in the engine bay, then washed the M&Ms.

What is that big yellow thing in the engine compartment?

Duke wrote:

geordi wrote:A little touch up cleaning in the engine bay, then washed the M&Ms.

What is that big yellow thing in the engine compartment?

Expansion tank for cooling system. What is it with the Germans and their ever yellowing plastic?

Paid for a new key (special order $195.00), paying for a rental car (3 to 4 days @$65.00 per day), time to sell Rhonda's E430 for an SL.

Over the weekend I picked up a set of 16" Style 33 wheels with nearly new Continental tires on them. The set of metal hub-centric rings to fit them to the e32 arrived yesterday, so I mounted up the new shoes to the old girl last night, and took her for a drive. Dang, what a difference in ride from the wide BBSs and ratty old Kuhmos!



While I had the rear wheels off, I took some time to inspect the driveline to see if the vibration I was getting was the driveshaft u-joint alone, or if there might be some other culprit. Sure enough, found that the bolts on the inside of the left half-shaft were really loose. Tightened them up, and about 90% of the vibration was gone. I still get some under power in the lower gears, but it doesn't feel like anything is going to fly apart any more.

Cleaned the TB's and the ICV.


and put the wife's GTI up for sale


More pics here:. http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/cto/3965835861.html

Changed 5 front wheel studs on my wife's Sienna.

Don't know how, but 2 broke due to being over tightened/cross threaded when I went to pull the lug nuts off, and the other three were pretty bad.
Had a little company:



Cleaned the makeup stain off the e30 seat, looks tons better!

davintosh wrote:Over the weekend I picked up a set of 16" Style 33 wheels with nearly new Continental tires on them.

Those look really sharp.

The front left brake on the e32 has been dragging a bit, so I got a set of remanufactured calipers and new brake hoses for it, and went to town on the job this morning. Didn't get very far into the job before I figured out that I should've picked up new pads too; the right side had lots of life left, but the left side was nearly spent (should've expected that. ) And while I was at it decided to roll with some new rotors as well.

It's sure nice putting things together with brand new parts.



Especially when the parts come with markings like this.



Luck of the draw I guess; I just asked for remanny-ed calipers for a 735i. They were only $55 each. Pretty much a no-brainer considering the rebuild kit was $25. The time I would take rebuilding one and the wounds I would get along the way are worth more than $30.

davintosh wrote: Especially when the parts come with markings like this.



Luck of the draw I guess; I just asked for remanny-ed calipers for a 735i.

This inquiring mind would like to know what remanned company you getting those parts from Dave.

Nice job... you have been busy lately.
geo

geordi wrote:This inquiring mind would like to know what remanned company you getting those parts from Dave.

Just picked them up at Advance Auto; it was even their cheaper option. Unfortunately the package didn't have a shop name on it, nor did the installation guide.

geordi wrote:Nice job... you have been busy lately.
geo

Hoping to drive the e32 to Pagosa Springs next week. It's a loooooonnngggg drive, and this is the first real road trip I've had in this car. Makes me a tad nervous.

Changed out the headlights to some smoked Hellas. Also touched up the bottom lip of the bumper and shelved the Dublin plate for now.

geordi wrote:

davintosh wrote: Especially when the parts come with markings like this.



Luck of the draw I guess; I just asked for remanny-ed calipers for a 735i.

This inquiring mind would like to know what remanned company you getting those parts from Dave.

Nice job... you have been busy lately.
geo

Did both front calipers have the markings? Those are E36 M3 calipers, which are the same (though the right is the left and vice versa) except for the markings.

Re-shoe on the E430 Sport with GoodYear Eagle F1.

Much softer, less noise over the road and big water drains, think I'll like them.

I am shadow painting the grill to knock offf some of the bright, replacing the head lights with smoked reflector projector units and the rear tail light assy with smoked pieces as well.

wkohler wrote:Did both front calipers have the markings? Those are E36 M3 calipers, which are the same (though the right is the left and vice versa) except for the markings.

Yup; matching markings on both. I was wondering what car they came from; thanks for the info!

CJ & I detailed my daughter's A3 which she is taking to TCU in FW for her sophomore year. Used it as an excuse to play with our new foam lance.

Found two cracks in the windshield and repaired those.

Washed the Alfa 145, picked up our new VW T5 transporter, washed the new (to us) BMW Alpina B3 3.2 Switch-Tronic, tried to figure out what wheels I can fit to the VW van, Cleaned the Bentley alloys so I can paint them before I fit them to one of the W210's ( the C180 Sport).

Oh...I washed the E28 as well. Though I fear I may be getting anal....it gets washed or wiped down every day.

I also lost my bunch of keys all day. Ended up bolting the barns (there's 40 odd cars in there, incl 4 E28's, 4 E24's, 1 2002, one Alpina B3, ) shut with a huge torx bolt in case someone stole or picked the keys up.

Then found the keys where my wife had dropped her massive handbag on top of them after swearing she had not seen them either.

Installed a new strut bearing system on the Volvo 245, only to discover that although the old setup had bearing play, the true source of noises was the strut gland nut being loose. Removed spring again in order to access the nut, now it's good, the silence is golden.

lance1a wrote:Oh...I washed the E28 as well. Though I fear I may be getting anal....it gets washed or wiped down every day.

I also lost my bunch of keys all day. Ended up bolting the barns (there's 40 odd cars in there, incl 4 E28's, 4 E24's, 1 2002, one Alpina B3, ) shut with a huge torx bolt in case someone stole or picked the keys up.

Then found the keys where my wife had dropped her massive handbag on top of them after swearing she had not seen them either.

This is the Internet, you know how it works...

Pics or it didn't happen.

Took the e32 for a ~750 mile drive today. It did really well, with one exception: The ABS light has been popping up randomly since last weekend, and I haven't had much time to try & figure out what's going on. Of course, when the ABS light comes on, the cruise control won't work. I really like cruise control, and hate when it's not there. Oh, also, the backlight for the odometer/tripmeter display decided to go out somewhere in Nebraska.

Other than that, it rode and drove great, and the OBC said I was getting ~24 mpg.

Puked a head gasket in my little truck.

Wagon back on work truck status until we either fix the head or put a reman 22re in it.



Put the reprogrammed Becker back in the wagon, tuner works great. Now the CD player is broken

E30 is getting oil change and fuel leak fixed. Next week is smileys and cd43.

Truck threw a P0101. Cleared code and it hasn't returned yet. Sounds like it's a wiring issue more than the sensor itself and I did see evidence of past problems. (electrical tape under the harness wrap right at the connector)

Ordered MAF just to have one handy. Who knows, maybe we can get the mileage up over 11.

This kinda sucks. I recently did the brakes on the Tundra, and during the job I found a lot of wear on the backing plate that wraps around the P-Brake drum on the rear rotor. I was thinking it was a corrosion/expansion thing. But no, apparently it's a bearing thing.

http://www.tundraheadquarters.com/blog/ ... noise-tsb/

I'm under the driveline warranty (60K) but past the basic warranty. Bearings are supposed to be covered under the driveline warranty. We'll see.

Replaced the "gun sight" hood star for a flush fit ML version badge. Much better not "chasing the star" down the highway.

Next move translucent black chrome grill & rear badging. Maybe the wheels, need to see how it looks on and extra wheel set.

The Touring is no longer on ramps and jackstands.

1st 5er wrote:The Touring is no longer on ramps and jackstands.

That's IT?!?

I just got a new timing belt in the mail. Was getting myself all psyched up to do the job, then checked the date stamp on the one I had. 2011. It probably would have been fine, but I wanted to remove all doubt. I shouldn't have to do another timing belt until after I retire.