Progress on my 5-speed swap

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

I would just like to let everybody know that I suck.

I was 85% complete yesterday. but I made a few mistakes.

So now I'm back to 60% complete.

I spent 14 hours today, fixing mistakes I made yesterday and earlier in the morning.

[88325isboy]

Great work you will be happy when done!

[rede30]

hehe no fun, thats a big backtrack.

[benDASHDASH]

AT least you're not 59% complete... now that would suck.

[Digitalwave]

What did you do wrong?

How long has it been, 3 weeks now? :)

[RobertK]

Atleast you didn't put the wrong clutch kit in and didn't realize it until you had bolted everything up.

What made it even worse for me was that the pilot bearing got stuck on the end of the input shaft.. and when I say stuck I mean seized to the nose. I eventually had to cut a hole in the bellhousing of my transmission to remove the pressure plate bolts to drop the transmission. In the end I had to cut the pilot bearing off with my Dremel. Worst weekend ever!

[aschmidt]

Even I beat you to getting a 5-speed Jonathan. :D Good luck with it!

[CleanAzzE30z]

Better than being 100% finished and then driving the car and then in the matter of an instant being 0% working. :) Keep up the good work. Its ok if you correct mistakes and catch them. I would know. :)

Mariano

[wastedincome]

So what did you do wrong???

[Jordan]

Damn. I converted a automatic e34 535i to 5spd with no previous experience working on these cars in 2.5days. (20hrs)

What are you getting hung up on then eh? I've converted quite a few cars, questions?

[GaryE30]

Gosh man, what is the world coming to when you can't be as efficient as Jordan?

[Jordan]

I think the worst part of the conversion is threading the clutch slave hardline onto the end of the clutch master cylinder.

On a e30 is pretty bad. A e34 makes a e30 look like a walk on the beach.

[MR 325]

Gosh man, what is the world coming to when you can't be as efficient as Jordan?

Jordan's reply was actually quite respectful. A shock, I know ;)

[grapedrink]

Jordan's reply was actually quite respectful. A shock, I know ;)

01-30-2006 Mark it on the shitty e30 calindar ;)

[MR 325]

01-30-2006 Mark it on the shitty e30 calindar ;)

ah hahahahaha