Thanks! Poor Lindsay's dad didn't watch the instructional video I sent him on how to replace the top, and had no idea it would be a 3 day project. He thought "Oh yeah, that'll be what? 3 hours?"
Needless to say, I bought him a bottle of some good Colorado Whiskey as a thank you for the top install, and the marriage :)
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Keepin' the ol'girl fresh Levy.
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The driver side grille was broken on the outside of the low beam, so I went ahead and ordered a new one.
Here's the new part
And all installed! I got it all installed with the BMWCCA badge on it, and it's looking good as new!
Also, my right license plate light is out, and a new bulb didn't fix it, so I figured what harm would it be to spend $11 on a new bulb housing, just in case.
And shit. Looks like I have a gremlin on my hands.
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I was messing with my fog lights, and realized I had a spot of rust on my front bumper (for lack of a better name for the piece the lip mounts to). There was a little spot of rust on the top corner, and a spot in the middle as well.
I busted out my handy dandy Dremel, grinded away the rust and hit it with my touch up brush. Right as rain!
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I needed to replace a license plate light, so logically I also ordered LED headlights! They're 12,000 lumen bright SOBs, and it was literally just plug n' play.
These ones are the Zdatt 12,000 lumen headlights listed for $30 on Amazon. I got the 9005s for the high beams and 9006s for the low beams, so it was $60 total for them. They come with little glass sleeves to go over the diodes themselves to change the color of the light. There's a 3000 Kelvin sleeve for yellow, 6000 Kelvin sleeve for bright white, and 8000 Kelvin for blue. I opted to go blue on the low beams and white on the highs. I like that I can just try other colors if I want though.
You can see in the second picture how the LED has no dim spots like the halogen (LED right, Halogen left). I haven't driven with them at night yet, but I'll see how good they are after I get off work.
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I finally got around to fixing my odometer, or rather, my trip meter that turned at about 1/2 rate, maybe slower. The trip meter seems trivial, unless your fuel level sender doesn't work!
Here's the whole thing all taken out, with the new Garagistic gears to show.
The subject of today's autopsy.
Hmm...those gears don't appear to be worn out.
And the yellow gasket makes me think that someone's already given Ruby the Garagistic gears. OH WELL! I have my brand new ones, and a trip meter that doesn't work. In they go!
Aaaand here's the new gears in. I think the innermost gear might have wiggled loose, allowing the green gear that turns the trip meter to make incosistent contact to spin the tripmeter. Good news, it work! I got gas and reset the trip meter, and watched it consistently turn the .1 mile number all the way around. Before, it would turn .1-.3, stop for a bit, then continue on to count the mile.
Now if only I could find that stupid thumb screw for the trim piece under the gauge cluster. One of them. magically disappeared today. Gotta have a project for another day, right?Last edited by Levy3Poop; 10-03-2017, 09:21 PM.Leave a comment:
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I tightened up the E brake today since it was horribly loose. All you do is get it on jack stands, raise the handle 5 clicks, and tighten these 2 nuts under the hand brake until you can't turn the wheels by hand. I've been needing to do this for such a long time, and it only took 30 minutes to do, including time to get my jack and stands out and to get the car up.
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Lindsay and I got married on the 16th, and of course the car was a part of the wedding. We had a painting made of us and our cats riding in the car for everyone to sign, and of course we had a top-down departure from the wedding.
The guy I bought the car from, and who helped out with the engine swap, made it out to the wedding with his lady friend. As a wedding gift, they gave me a new roundel for the hood, and a BMW CCA badge for the grille. I got them installed today, and it looks good! Now I just need to look into actually joining BMW CCA lol. Thanks, kevin!
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Nope check it out. Cable was in fair condition when I had it. And I had the throttle stick maybe twice. Just didn't stick at redline thankfully. Never knew this was an issue till then.
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Maintenance day!
I intended to do another oil change at 2,000 after my last since I used too thin of an oil last time, and I JUST missed 2,000 miles by 2 lol. So on today's schedule was an oil change, new throttle cable, and installing the Garagistic aluminum bushing for the throttle cable.
First, time to show off. My birthday was on August 30th, in the middle of the top install, and my loving mom gave me a Dremel for my birthday. I took the chance to engrave Ruby's name on the oil drain plug since I got a magnetic plug when I ordered the throttle cable.
And here's the oil. Same as last time, but 10w40 since . I found an M42 service manual online with a bunch of preferred oil weights, and 10w40 was in that list.
I change the oil filter as well, but no pics of that. Here's the engraved plug installed. I think it looks nice :)
Okay, here's the crappy old throttle cable. Notice how the hose-ey part is broken from the hex part? Yeahhhh that means the cable has a chance to pop out and get stuck as positioned in the picture, and that means this can happen:
The throttle cable stuck because that's a common problem with the M42s. Anyways, here's the old cable with old bushing:
This little bastard clip on the firewall did NOT want to come out. I was hammering at it with my big screw driver for over an hour.
It FINALLY popped out. I absolutely hate working under the dashboard.
In case anyone is wondering what the clip looks like, here you go. Maybe this can give someone an idea how to pinch it instead of bashing it with a hammer for an hour. Tags for Google to help poor bastards out: bmw e30 m42 throttle cable clip
Mine also had this little bracket to keep the cable going in a good direction. The YT video I watched on removing the cable didn't have this, so I I figured I'd include a picture. It's held on with the 10mm nut under the cable.
After much time swearing and screaming internally, I finally got the snap ring on without owning a pair of snap ring pliers. The cable was super easy to poke through the firewall, and adjusting the tension on the cable was easy enough...but man, I suggest snap ring pliers in case anyone wants to use anything with snap rings.
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