What did you do to your other car(s) today?

[SPF2006]

[Grande Royal]

Knocked some chrome off my '14 Tundra CrewMax Limited by installing a TRD PRO color matched grill and hood bulge (my wife surprised me with it for my birthday, she's a keeper). Not a big fan of chrome!

[foamy]

removed that engine today i think it might be savable needs a new head and probably an oil pump new timing pulleys and belt and i think it will live again.

[Mike W.]

towed it to my uncles house after the engine committed suicide tomorrow engines coming out.

I can obviously see the angle, but not being a M20 guy what happened? Was it the sinstered or pressed or cast pulley or whatever or what?

[MicahO]

Front EDC suspension is all rebuilt on the M5 Touring. One of the shocks appeared to be original, I have a receipt for replacement of the other in 2011. These are NLA and probably never coming back, though there is a shop in Poland that does a great job of rebuilding them. I bought a spare set somewhere along the way and they came out super-pretty.

And great news! Now that the front end is not bounding like a gazelle over every ripple of pavement, I can see that the rear shocks are okay and do not require a rebuild! So the winter plan for this car will be exhaust and heavy cleaning underneath, but not a complete rear suspension refresh.

The front bearings are also NLA for the e34M5/M540i. I found one leftover Beck/Arnley unit on the interwebs, though both of these came out and reinstalled cleanly, so I'll keep the new one on the shelf.

Shiny shocks rebuilt inside and out by Nagengast:


Before - blech!


After!


Always love new wheelwel liners and hardware...

[foamy]

towed it to my uncles house after the engine committed suicide tomorrow engines coming out.

I can obviously see the angle, but not being a M20 guy what happened? Was it the sinstered or pressed or cast pulley or whatever or what?

its a subaru ej22 engine i suspect the reason it broke was due to the cogged idler pulley seizing as it was seizing up it was putting extra stress on that cam to make that pulley turn and then when the pulley seized it yanked the cam over snapping it. its the only thing i can think of to cause it.

[Karl Grau]

Front EDC suspension is all rebuilt on the M5 Touring.

Very pretty. It's good to know about the place in Poland and I'm surprised that the bearings are NLA.

[jca]

Refurbed a e28 coin tray that I found on ebay. It came a scuffed up camel color; I smoothed it up and sprayed it with black Dupli Color bumper and trim. They mount using sticky tape. I like the way it looks in the car and it's handy, too.

[jca]

Compounded my 98 318ti. Paint (Moreagrun) still looks good. I recommend this model if you are looking for a sporty handling BMW that is easy to work on and won't break the bank.

[offroadkarter]

Did some winter prep work on the Marauder yesterday, signs of prior owner neglect are strong. The passenger side rocker needs complete replacement, I was able to pick a hole through the rust.



Por15 and 2 coats of fluid film, should be good for this season.



Also replaced the rear airbags, at 160k miles they've seen better days. Still worked though!



I was doing all of this in Queens as well, I had to drive an hour and a half back to NJ in a snow storm, car did great on the WS80's.

[OcCoupe]

I washed the coupe then took her for a drive!

[John in VA]

Got a check engine light & concomitant stumble/misfire/hesitation in the 2002 325xi that I am prepping to sell. Code indicated misfire on 1/3/5 cyl bank, so switched out bad coils 1 & 5 and threw some new NGK plugs in. Running smooth again!

[a]

Defrosted the Fridge. What else do call a big white appliance?

[Mike W.]

Did some winter prep work on the Marauder yesterday, signs of prior owner neglect are strong. The passenger side rocker needs complete replacement, I was able to pick a hole through the rust.

Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing? Is it actually a full frame car, not a unibody? I did not know that. Not surprised it did ok in the snow, I drove a few very full size cars of a much earlier vintage and they always did well. Although having half the HP of yours probably helped too.

[Kyle in NO]

The Panther platform has been full frame since the 1970s.

[Mike W.]

The Panther platform has been full frame since the 1970s.

Shows what I know. I thought I remembered a Car and Driver article from long, long ago, talking about how they did away with body on frame in the '65 redesign. Guess not.

[SPF2006]

Changed the oil on the X3 while it was still in the low 40s outside, will be in 20s/30s later in the week onward so had to get it done. All good until the container with the used oil spilled rounding the final corner to the local Pep Boys to drop it off, making a nice mess. Cracked cap it turns out.

[Karl Grau]

Changed the oil on the X3 while it was still in the low 40s outside, will be in 20s/30s later in the week onward so had to get it done.

You're lucky. I want to have a fire in the fireplace but I can't.

[offroadkarter]

Did some winter prep work on the Marauder yesterday, signs of prior owner neglect are strong. The passenger side rocker needs complete replacement, I was able to pick a hole through the rust.

Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing? Is it actually a full frame car, not a unibody? I did not know that. Not surprised it did ok in the snow, I drove a few very full size cars of a much earlier vintage and they always did well. Although having half the HP of yours probably helped too.

The panther platform was actually a scaled down variant of the full size ford's from the 70's (some suspension parts from the 98 - 02 cars will fit cars back to the 60's. My friends brother is running 98 - 02 cop car springs on his 71 lincoln mark III). The panther platform was the last body on frame sedan (GM's B body ended in 96) and ran from model years 1979 to 2012.

This thing is pretty much built like a 1/2 ton 2wd pickup truck with a car body, hydro-formed frame rails up front with a fully boxed frame, aluminum front crossmember, forged upper control arms with aluminum lower control arms.

[a]

Help my truck won't start! Just goes klick! Trouble shot the wrassenfrassen Rat in bone chilling 30F temps. This was complicated by a serviceable bodge I made to the + cable. Suspecting a loose connection , I had to unwrap my Gorilla taped insulation. No joy. Jumping the relay on the fender. No joy. Repeated soft pats with the end of a 1x3 applied to the Chinese clone starter, still no joy. Possibly a loose connection at the starter? Frozen/ ice? Gave up and plugged the inflater into the Fridge to blow up a tire to make the Borman6 a roller. While it inflated, I harvested the fuel pump. 30 yrs old and 350Kmiles , idiots delight, but I'm curious to see if it will work.

Part2 Far as I can tell,the trouble is loose connection at the starter. The plastic jacket of the cable is stiff as a board. I am gonna attempt to use an E 28 positive cable as a replacement. I also bought some external toothed washers for the 2 wires. 44 cents worth. With the starter on the radiator and everything hanging, the circuit passed an end to end circuit test. Startah works pissah with no load. 'Course that isn't a real test. Lying on a strip of commercial carpet, wearing 2 prs of wool sox, I'm comfy and the mosquitos flew south for the winter. I don't mind the cold so much. Once again , it the humidity, the easterly and NE wind off the watta ,raw to the bone. I can put the starter in and try it in a few minutes in daylight. Mean time, cables are bundled in some loom and along with the starter are on a warm air outlet. Hmmn, I can go get the wrenches and bring them inside to warm up too. I used E 28 axle bolts to mount the starter. The top one was about 8mm long so I cut it off and dressed the end until a 10mm nut worked smoothly. The socket heads add a touch of class. The Rat needs all the class it can get. I'm thinking of doing some badge engineering. Sticking the 528e on the tail gate. Get rid of the fogged head lights and graft in the 5 1/4 quads with H4s. Cable tie the kidneys and grill and slap a rondel on the hood.

Turns out there was a leak in the armature of the 38$ clone. Something got hot and some smoke leaked out. Death was instantaneous. No grind,or growl, just nothing. That isn't a starter failure mode familiar to me. The starters are virtually identical. Being hand assembled, they are idiot proofed. By the time I had taken apart 2 of them and assembled another, I was trained. Ford starter worked, but the starter drive and bushings were shot. I used its armature and solenoid to fix the clone. Franken-starter works pissa and I re-spotted the dead 528e s to neaten the yard up for company.

[SPF2006]

Battery on the X3 was dead as a doornail so I had to replace it. Had I checked earlier in the year I would have realized this was a 2010 battery and was way overdue...but I didn't. Doing this curbside in 25-degree weather and snow is almost as much as fun as trying to get the hatch open with zero power.

[bkbimmer]

I finished parting out my e12 build, feels great to move on.

[tig]

I finished parting out my e12 build, feels great to move on.

What happened to the chassis?

[Das_Prachtstrasse]

Not today but sometime last week the e34 covered the equivalent distance from the earth to the moon at apogee. It took it 28 years to do it. Not a bad effort for the old girl.

[bkbimmer]

I finished parting out my e12 build, feels great to move on.

What happened to the chassis?

It's being reincarnated.