"Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!" (eurylokhos)
10/09/2018 at 21:02 • Filed to: Wrenching, BMW
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"Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!" (eurylokhos)
10/09/2018 at 21:02 • Filed to: Wrenching, BMW | 2
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Uneventful day of wrenching. Pretty much cleared out the whole to-do list under the hood of the E46. Valve cover gasket done, the one in there was in good shape still but whoever did it last left off a few washers so the baskets on those bolts had no pressure and were leaking like a sieve.
Oil and oil level sender changed as well. Pretty much all that’s left under the hood is the cabin air filter. It was naaaaasty. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if I was told it was original to the car from 2002.
Had to go out for parts twice during the job, used the 996 as my parts hauler. The guys at the parts store must have thought I looked funny getting out of a Porsche wearing camo pants and a Monty Python shirt buying parts.
functionoverfashion
> Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
10/09/2018 at 21:46 |
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I’m just now catching up to the fact that you bought the theoretical child of my last car and current car. Both 325xi E46 manual wagons. My old one was black, gray interior. Current one is blue, that same tan interior you have. My black one was a bit of a basket case, but I learned a ton. These aren’t bad to work on. My blue one has been much better.
I love them, and will be very sad when the day comes to get rid of mine. It’s a daily driver, kid hauler, ski car, trash hauler, fun enough to make me smile (but not get into trouble) and tons of fun in the snow. See here:
https://oppositelock.kinja.com/as-promised-days-later-1822945986
I’ve also had them both up at Team O’Neil for some fun times. Totally unmodified, running snow tires, that’s it. Fuse... 56 I think? Is the one you can pull to completely disable all traction control and ABS. I’d know if I looked at the panel.
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functionoverfashion
> Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
10/09/2018 at 21:48 |
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I’ve got an extra Final Stage Resistor if you need one. It’s the part you replace when the blower motor starts doing weird stuff. For some reason I have two new ones in their boxes, so even if I need one, I can’t possibly use them both.
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Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
> functionoverfashion
10/11/2018 at 17:06 |
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Nice! Just saw this comment. It’s been fun to work on, that’s for sure. Monday a glass company comes out to pull the windshield and I’ ll fix the rust on the frame before they put the new one in, then I should just be fixing the parking brake away from passing inspection. Have to register it first, though, I only retitled it since I wasn’t sure how long it would take me to get it fixed up. Aiming for the first week of November to have it on the road with a sticker.