My Dirty 4 Door - Daily Driver content

[Alpina]

Nice,,,,,,,,,,,,

E34 525 M50 manual is one of the best DD available

great upgrade btw

[Jean]

Picked up the trailing arms with new bushings pressed in earlier this week. Just finished working on the car 10 hours straight.

Completed the following:
- installed trailing arms in the subframe
- installed diff in the subframe
- installed axles
- removed drive-shaft, replaced guibo
- removed shifter console and all parts
- installed new shifter components and e60 shifter
- installed subframe with trailing arms and diff on the car
- installed e-brakes, rotors, calipers, lines
- installed drive-shaft
- installed exhaust, new gaskets, and a new stud (one broke).

Tomorrow I just need to bleed the brakes and take it for a spin with ALL new bushings now. I just forgot to replace the rear sway bar links, but they seem to be okay, not cracked so they'll do for a month or so and I'll then replace them and maybe get new sway-bars.

I'll probably end up replaced the steering box next, as I still have a little bit of shake even with all new lemf/meyle hd front parts (every single part replaced including rotors/pads, sway bar links).

Took some photos today -

e60 shifter and shifter parts


new trailing arms bushings installed


new subframe bushings installed


new diff bushings






trailing arms installed, getting ready to install the diff






new guibo



old shifter vs new





installed



installed axles



lining it up for install





making some progress











10 hours later :)



e60 shifter

[Jean]

Well, epic fail today. Not a single bushing would come out, 12ton press ended up being useless lol.

[Jean]

Press from Harbor Freight.

[Jean]

Couple more from today.

[Jean]

Couple weeks ago I installed another new front end, to replace the cheesy FCP branded parts.

Went with Lemf/Meyle HD on all parts.

Today I lowered the rear subframe to do all 10 bushings (did the 2 dog-bones/rsm's already). Picked up a 12ton shop press to help with the job tomorrow.

[Wh33lhop]

That interior is retarded clean. Jean, this car makes me want an E34 over an E39 for a daily.

[Jean]

Picked up an e32 rear console for the back seat.

[Jean]

Thanks man! It's becoming more and more enjoyable so far as a daily. I can't wait to refresh the rear-end and install an e60 shifter and all new hardware. Come spring time I'll need to get the old rear tint removed and re-tint the car.

[B83M533W]

I normally don't like e34's but yours was definitely a head turner. Very nice.

[Jean]

I am in that area from time to time, possible.

[B83M533W]

Do you have yellow fogs? If so I think I saw you driving in Rancho Cordova on Zinfandel.

[Roysneon]

Perhaps it's just me but that front end looks like a lot to go wrong/wear out.

[Dj Buttchug]

i want e34 so bad. nice progress!!

[Jean]

Wheels / tires rebalanced, problem didn't go away.

Today I replaced the front rotors and pads and no more shaking/vibration so far.

Also replaced 4 tranny mounts while I am there, rears were toast.