Almost done, but a couple problems: gear grind & brakes locked

[kylebes1]

Did you cut 7 cm off the 320i booster rod? The side that is inside the car that connects to your brake pedal. You would have to grind down the shaft making is shorter and smaller in diameter and rethread it for the adjuster.

Sounds like rede30 is right, you may have the brakes engadged and not know it.

[rede30]

you need to adjust the booster fork, probably?

[Bmjpv]

Some Little Problems ?

Sorry about that, If you upgraded to the stainless lines you mite have a collapsed line to that corner,that would move fluid on the master side under pressure but can't flow back towards master when pressure is released. But if it's both rears
than you have to look at the possable preload of the master cyl. On the second gear,If it goes into reverse ok then maybe second gear really is bad, again just a quess, sounds like your close. joe

[grib]

Well, I am closing in on being finished with my s52 swap. I took the car out for a drive today, and after about 5-10 minutes of driving I noticed that the car was hardly coasting (if I put the clutch it, it would stop almost immediately). I fought it into a parking lot - and even with the transmission in neutral and e-brake down the car wouldn't roll an inch.

I tried pumping the brake and clutch pedals with the car off and on. Nothing. I even disconnected the vacuum line to the booster to see if that was it. Finally I grabbed the 8mm wrench from the trunk and opened the bleeder screw on one of the back calipers. Some fluid jetted out and the car rolled back. I was able to get home - but does anyone have any idea what's going on? E21 booster (remanufactured) and my 325i MC. SS brake lines with stock calipers. The brake pedal is extremely firm.

The transmission also grinds going into second gear - and only second gear. It's a ZF320 from a '97 M3. All other gears work fine, but it fights me all the way trying to get into second gear. At first I thought it was the shifter rubbing the guibo, but there is almost an inch of clearance after bending the shift rod. I really hope this is an easy fix - but more than likely there is something seriously wrong with my transmission.

Other than these, the car runs really nicely! Love the power! :up:

Thanks,
Matt