Andrew's 1989 325i Project

[5Toes]

Pressure washed the engine bay today, cleaned up great! I think I took a little bit of paint off in one part.. oopsies. Dropped the head off too $58 with tax for resurface and cleaning, and they are going to clean up all the studs for me too!



Get on my level?

[5Toes]

Headbolts arrived, and picked my head up today. I have everything to get this done.. except for damn co-operative weather

[5Toes]

Oil pan gasket done, and the block is clean

I made sure the inside of that engine and the pan were spick and span

[5Toes]

Oh my god that pilot bearing is a bitch. I shoved it with paper, (dry though), then some bread, then I gave up and wailed on it with a fat philips screwdriver. I broke the inner race, and the bearing all fell out... then I put the auto zone puller on the out race.

I need $30 more to rent the slidehammer and then I am done with that damn thing. Most annoying thing ever... we spent all day yesterday on it until we broke it and made a little progress

On the bright side I deleted my power steering! lol

[TimKninja]

Pack a Bunch of wet paper in, hammer it all in the center of the bearing til it pushes it out... Worked for me. Took a bit tho

[85e325]

Updates??

[freeride53]

chill....

[5Toes]

Yes actually

Got eveyrthing in and the starter is pushing on the dust cover spacer thing. Thus it grinds on the flywheel

I can now pull a starter in 15 minutes though.. ha that includes putting new one in

So gotta pull the starter one last time and then see where the plate is scraping and fix it.

Everything else is good to go!

[5Toes]

Well I made the starter issue better, placed a washer on each bolt to space it out, it cranks fine now but still grinds a little bit.

Car has fuel, but not spark. So time to figure this out today. I am going to try a known good coil and go from there

[85e325]

Well I made the starter issue better, placed a washer on each bolt to space it out, it cranks fine now but still grinds a little bit.

Car has fuel, but not spark. So time to figure this out today. I am going to try a known good coil and go from there

If you can get it started i'll give ya 300 clams for it !!!

[george graves]

$325

[5Toes]

Dropping the trans this week

I put the flywheel in wrong and never listened to anybody here like a stupid ass teenager

[5Toes]

So trans is toast. Dropped that sucker out alone in a little over 2 hours

Engine still runs good though

[ttrousdell]

So trans is toast. Dropped that sucker out alone in a little over 2 hours

Engine still runs good though

5 speed swap time. ditch the autotragic

[Farbin Kaiber]

^You must be new. His parents won't let him have a manual.