I'm sure alot of these can be found with searching, but my main concern is sometimes when cranking, it seems like the starter doesn't want to grab, sometimes it sounds like something rattling around in the bell housing other times and most of the time it cranks fine. I haven't checked these engines out throughly, but the guy i just bought the car from said to check the flywheel sensor.
Story behind this is i just bought an '85 325e for $100, body is straight, freshly primered, great interior, just doesn't run, shut off while he was driving down the highway. Fuel pump relay clicked in my head, turned the car to on, no fuel pump turned on, jumped the relay, fuel pump kicked on. Tried cranking, no start, wreaked of turpentine, checked spark, no spark.
Car is still at his house, plan draining the gas, putting new in and trying this flywheel sensor dealie. Anything else obvious to check would be great to have a list of before working on it tomorrow.
Story behind this is i just bought an '85 325e for $100, body is straight, freshly primered, great interior, just doesn't run, shut off while he was driving down the highway. Fuel pump relay clicked in my head, turned the car to on, no fuel pump turned on, jumped the relay, fuel pump kicked on. Tried cranking, no start, wreaked of turpentine, checked spark, no spark.
Car is still at his house, plan draining the gas, putting new in and trying this flywheel sensor dealie. Anything else obvious to check would be great to have a list of before working on it tomorrow.