Piece of advice for all you m50'ers....

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  • joshh
    R3V OG
    • Aug 2004
    • 6195
    #1

    Piece of advice for all you m50'ers....

    Save every bolt, clip, retainer and anything you can from your donner car.
    I made the mistake of removing everything without taking pictures even though I told myself to. Now I'm missing stupid shit for the swap and have to go buy things like banjo bolts, and miscilanious bolts and holders and such.
    I'm one of the rare swaps that was stripped down to replace every seal in the motor, now I'm scrapping for pictures of certain areas.
    Anyways, take pictures and save EVERYTHING!
    Thank god (not really) to Realoem....
    Last edited by joshh; 12-15-2006, 01:32 PM.
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    • Rocla
      E30 Modder
      • Aug 2006
      • 922
      #2
      What you said goes with any swap or repair.

      If you are doing things first time, it's not stupid to take pictures, write down thing or even draw.

      Imagine situation that you have 2 bolts, other is like 5mm longer than other and you put storage them in same place... putting 5mm short bolt to somewhere is no big deal, but lets imagine that you put 5mm too long bolt to say e.g. brake caliper nad your wheel will not spin.

      I personaly have put tierod end nuts to motor mount with ait tools, as you can imagine, mount will be ruined, and guess how you will feel when you discover that there is not suitable tierod nut anywhere...
      Current:

      BMW 320i 2d 2.0 m20 -88
      BMW 325i Cabriolet 2.5 m50 -88
      BMW 316i touring 1.6 m40 -90
      BMW 320i 4d 2,2 m54 -01

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        • 325Projectz
          E30 Mastermind
          • Jan 2005
          • 1956
          #3
          Haha, I can relate. Now I have paint cans full of different types of nuts and bolts.
          91 m3

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            • ptownTSI
              E30 Fanatic
              • Jun 2005
              • 1265
              #4
              first motor project I did on a Jeep I took everything off, labeled it, put it in bags, and took pictures.

              when i did the timing belt on the e30 i just rocked out with my cock out in a few hours. didnt label chit. if i was pulling the motor I definitely would have labeled stuff but just the timing belt was easy to put back together.

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                • joshh
                  R3V OG
                  • Aug 2004
                  • 6195
                  #5
                  That doesn't make me feel better.:finger:


                  ;)
                  Your signature picture has been removed since it contained the Photobucket "upgrade your account" image.

                  "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the [federal] government." ~ James Madison

                  ‎"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen" Barack Obama

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                    • xLibelle
                      R3VLimited
                      • Aug 2004
                      • 2673
                      #6
                      i saved everything on my rebuild but when it was time to assemble that certain component, i started running out of bolts. then after buying new bolts and finishing... i started finding extra shit everywhere.

                      my advice from that was stay organized and label/pictures if the project is going to take some time

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