So in the time that the car is in Mexico, I am going to clean and polish all the parts that are going back onto the car. The biggest things are the bumpers. I got them fairly cheap used. The rear having a few dings … Continue readingBumper polishing Pt. 1 Rear Bumper
Day 2. The car is in process now and it’s only day 2 of about 28 days. I have a busy work schedule which helps but it’s still like a kid waiting for Christmas knowing there’s a shiny BMX bike next to the tree. TORTURE! … Continue readingWaiting Game…Day 2
Hopefully this will put to rest my clutch pedal saga. I have replaced the clutch pedal return spring and now I have found a leak in the clutch master cylinder. Because of this I have had to adjust the pedal so I get more pressure … Continue readingClutch Master Cylinder Replacement
Barrett Jackson auctioned off a 74 BMW 2002 over the weekend and it went for…$125,000! The proceed went to charity but still that’s a huge number! It wasn’t a Turbo. It wasn’t a Tii. It wasn’t some rare European model from the factory. It was … Continue reading$125,000?!?!?!
Ok so the car has been disappointing lately. Engine wasn’t running great because of the tune. I personally wasn’t great at tuning it but I was determined to understand it. Then the rear end. The differential grinding and when that got replaced the scraping noise … Continue readingToday was the dawn of a new day!!!
The car has had a leaky differential for a while and now it seems like its on its last legs so its time to replace it. I was going to go with a 3.91 LSD but after a lot of research it seems like the … Continue readingBack on the road!!! New Differential!
Well this is a first. I have parked the 2002 for the time being. I thought my load grinding and groaning mouse was coming from the rear wheel bearings. I dropped it off at Black Forest BMW repair to have the wheel bearings changed … Continue readingParked….?
I came outside from work and there was a large puddle of coolant under the car. Hmmm….whats this??? I had been filling it and watching things over the past week. Now it has developed a dripping leak. The source seemed to be the water pump, … Continue readingPuddle of coolant….Water pump replacement!
Now that I have the 123/Tune distributor installed and working flawlessly I have gone back and started adjusting and dialing the car in. A few things that bothered me up to now was the choke operation, a stumble at high rpm shifts and the lumpy … Continue readingTuning….some success!
The car has been stumbling under hard acceleration at high rpms recently and I was trying to tune that out so when I installed the 123Tune distributor I was comparing it to a good running system. I think mods and so called upgrades nowadays are … Continue reading123 Tune Bluetooth distributor install!