After a year of searching, an Alpineweiß story

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rm european order and redline cv2 grease from amazon
Axle boots by ALEXANDER RENGIFO, on Flickr


Axle boots by ALEXANDER RENGIFO, on Flickr
axle greased up

Redline cv 2 grease by ALEXANDER RENGIFO, on Flickr


i borrowed a tool from my shop neighbor.
it pinches down to clamp the boots on the axles

Axles and trailing arms by ALEXANDER RENGIFO, on Flickr



the clamps provided with the boots came excessively long

Axles and trailing arms by ALEXANDER RENGIFO, on Flickr


i tried to cut the clamps with a pair of sheet metal tin snips but that didnt work
i ended up using a cut off wheel
Axles and trailing arms by ALEXANDER RENGIFO, on Flickr


clamps cut to size
Axles and trailing arms by ALEXANDER RENGIFO, on Flickr


yay!!!

Axles and trailing arms by ALEXANDER RENGIFO, on Flickr


axles done!
Axles and trailing arms by ALEXANDER RENGIFO, on Flickr

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axle boot tore on the driver side inner joint

really impressed with my brushless dewalt impact gun
it broke the axle nut free even with the lock ring still on
Untitled by ALEXANDER RENGIFO, on Flickr

pushing out the passenger side axle
driver side came out easy
Untitled by ALEXANDER RENGIFO, on Flickr



Axles by ALEXANDER RENGIFO, on Flickr


axles on the work bench ready to tear them apart
Axles by ALEXANDER RENGIFO, on Flickr


after tearing them down i discovered you can not disassemble the outer joint closest to the wheel bearing.
so i removed as much grease as possible then soaked it in paint thinner.
Axles by ALEXANDER RENGIFO, on Flickr


axles dissembled and cleaned. waiting for redline cv2 axle grease to rebuild them.


i bought rubber boots inner and outer,
axle nuts
axle locking plates
all from rm European it was delivered in one business day.


Axles by ALEXANDER RENGIFO, on Flickr

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Update

Went to the garagistic open house


Untitled by iwantoffroad, on Flickr

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Update. E30 is up and running.
Got a new led light bar from Garagistic

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great car, great project thread.

painting file cabinets to match your tool drawers? get out of my head!

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so i got a side cabinet for Christmas from my wife


here is the before shot


these holes had to be enlarged to get the side cabinet to fit nice and flush with the big tool box



i took the drawers out of the cabinet so i could load it on and off by myself



done

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After discussing with a few friends. Made the decision to upgrade the brake pads to hawk hp+ front and rear with Ate blank rotors front and rear and motul rbf 660 brake fluid

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Cliff notes

Fumoto oil drain valve f109 N works on the m20 oil pan WITHOUT needing the ADP 109 adapter. I have called fumoto and discussed this with them via email so they can update there website.

The drain valve sits above my e30 Motorwerks HIK fabrication skid plate

New parts
I have been wanting a fumoto oil drain valve for a while. Once i checked out there website I found out it needed an adapter to screw into the oil pan first so that the valve could clear the oil pan. This would cause it to sit to low and be vulnerable to shearing off.

I recently bought the valve and the adapter to see what how I could do it.

Turns out you can use a extra crush washer to space the valve out and get the included fiber washer to sit nice and flat.

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Awesome thanks for forwarding these

Next probject.
Replacing a burnt out ballast in the fog lights

[2mAn]

Gilles hooked me up with the pics he took.

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Thanks Simon

Meeting up in la


Really sick Sabelt seat

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Hard parked



I also got some rolling shots I got of your car!

[TeXJ]

My friend Tyler recommend this one.

https://www.amazon.com/Spyderco-Tena...enacious+combo

looks like that should be a good one.

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Which pocket knife?

My friend Tyler recommend this one.

https://www.amazon.com/Spyderco-Tena...enacious+combo

[TeXJ]

Which pocket knife?