Joe G's 1977 E24 Daily build.

**LuckyHenriksen** · 01-29-2012, 08:53 PM

Needs to lose altitude quickly ;)

Looks good. Hope I can help with some of the parts supply

**TopOfTheLine89** · 01-29-2012, 08:55 PM

Nice. Put a csi wing on it! and 16" alpina turbines while your at it!

**Joe G** · 01-29-2012, 09:03 PM

Originally posted by LuckyHenriksen

Needs to lose altitude quickly ;)

Looks good. Hope I can help with some of the parts supply

Headliner, passenger door weather stripping/window seal are needed ASAP. pm me.

**kronus** · 01-29-2012, 09:21 PM

Nice! Yours looks like it came with real paint. The 630s are a bit notorious for poor body construction, because the bodies were built by Karmann, not BMW. Get under it and check if anything's terribly rusty.

Also, sign up at www.bigcoupe.com and post up a thread, it's the e24 hub. My project's there, and you have me beat on car age by a year but I have more milliliters than you :D

Originally posted by Joe G

1)Unclog the sunroof drains/gutters

Yours has a sunroof!?! Is it a dealer unit or a proper BMW sliding one? The early e24s came with either a sunroof or AC.

Originally posted by Joe G

4)Replace the passenger side window seal

Prepare to pay out the ass for this. They're messed up on every e24. Pelican sells some shit called Gummi Pflege which reconditions rubber and comes recommended. Some people have taken to injecting foam or silicon into the seal to puff it up so that it seals against the window.

Originally posted by Joe G

5)Figure out why rear windows arent working

The motors are probably seized due to disuse, or the window switches are toast, or both. The switches are easy to take apart and clean, but the copper contacts may have degraded internally in which case you need replacement switches. The motors can be freed up with some grease, manual actuation, and hitting.

Some other things to know - you have an E12-based E24, all the suspension is super old-school, very similar to E12 and E23. E28 suspension things don't fit, they're all the wrong lengths, and almost nobody sells E12 stuff anymore. You can use swaybars from an E23, they're large. Springs are much tougher to find... Suspension Techniques sometimes sells a set, but I've heard mixed things about it. After several months of searching I ended up getting GC coilover adjusters and Konis, which should be installed soon.

Your interior stuff is unique to the E12-based six, and I think it's nicer than the E28-based stuff. If your seats are completely done for and you don't want to upgrade, I should have a set soon that needs to be softened and dyed but is otherwise intact.

If you have any other questions, big coupe guys are pretty knowledgeable, and I've been reading up on them for some time as well. glhf, I'm jealous of how much paint your car has.

**Joe G** · 01-29-2012, 09:32 PM

Originally posted by kronus

Nice! Yours looks like it came with real paint. The 630s are a bit notorious for poor body construction, because the bodies were built by Karmann, not BMW. Get under it and check if anything's terribly rusty.

Also, sign up at www.bigcoupe.com and post up a thread, it's the e24 hub. My project's there, and you have me beat on car age by a year but I have more milliliters than you :D

Yours has a sunroof!?! Is it a dealer unit or a proper BMW sliding one? The early e24s came with either a sunroof or AC.

Prepare to pay out the ass for this. They're messed up on every e24. Pelican sells some shit called Gummi Pflege which reconditions rubber and comes recommended. Some people have taken to injecting foam or silicon into the seal to puff it up so that it seals against the window.

The motors are probably seized due to disuse, or the window switches are toast, or both. The switches are easy to take apart and clean, but the copper contacts may have degraded internally in which case you need replacement switches. The motors can be freed up with some grease, manual actuation, and hitting.

Some other things to know - you have an E12-based E24, all the suspension is super old-school, very similar to E12 and E23. E28 suspension things don't fit, they're all the wrong lengths, and almost nobody sells E12 stuff anymore. You can use swaybars from an E23, they're large. Springs are much tougher to find... Suspension Techniques sometimes sells a set, but I've heard mixed things about it. After several months of searching I ended up getting GC coilover adjusters and Konis, which should be installed soon.

Your interior stuff is unique to the E12-based six, and I think it's nicer than the E28-based stuff. If your seats are completely done for and you don't want to upgrade, I should have a set soon that needs to be softened and dyed but is otherwise intact.

If you have any other questions, big coupe guys are pretty knowledgeable, and I've been reading up on them for some time as well. glhf, I'm jealous of how much paint your car has.

Thanks for all the info. My car has a proper BMW sunroof and AC. Rare? The seats are in OK shape, drivers side has a small tear and some of the piping is chewed up, but thats the worst of it. Under-body is clean, no rust. Just a little surface, the worst of which is under the rear window. Also, how much of a PITA is accessing the blower motor? It gets squeaky once in a while. I signed up on bigcoupe, but have yet to be 'activated'. I emailed the admin earlier tonight, so hopefully ill be active there soon.

**kronus** · 01-30-2012, 10:56 AM

Originally posted by Joe G

Thanks for all the info. My car has a proper BMW sunroof and AC. Rare? The seats are in OK shape, drivers side has a small tear and some of the piping is chewed up, but thats the worst of it. Under-body is clean, no rust. Just a little surface, the worst of which is under the rear window. Also, how much of a PITA is accessing the blower motor? It gets squeaky once in a while. I signed up on bigcoupe, but have yet to be 'activated'. I emailed the admin earlier tonight, so hopefully ill be active there soon.

Never heard of a car having both from the factory, but the 77s are weird.

Blower motor is easy to access, there's a panel under the hood that comes off and boom! blower motor.

**Joe G** · 01-30-2012, 11:24 AM

nice. Yup, mine has both. Ill sell it you ya for.................................... $1 million dollars

**kronus** · 01-30-2012, 05:30 PM

nah i already have one without a sunroon and soon, without AC.

**FunfGan** · 01-30-2012, 05:33 PM

Looks great! Congrats on the pickup :o

**Joe G** · 01-31-2012, 04:34 PM

Got the sunroof gutters unclogged, all it took was some patience and a plumbers snake. You would be disgusted if you saw the shit (literally looked like shit) that came out of all 4 of them. Now i need to figure out why my sunroof struggles so much to go all the way back and to close. Any thoughts? I lubed everything up pretty well today and it helped a lot, but it still struggles.

**rustybullet** · 02-03-2012, 02:24 PM

Looks solid man. Get that thing a front and rear spoiler, lower it and some nice wheels and bam. There is another e24 in town that looks down right sexy. He is on mye28 and bimmer forums, user name is cleeves.

**Joe G** · 02-18-2012, 04:25 PM

Made some more ground today.

Started off with a good wash and then i got into it a little more:

Took out the blower motor, cleaned and lubed it up. No more squeaky fan! wohooo!

Also installed some window trim and other interior pieces that were in the trunk.

Cleaned and installed all of the trunk lining pieces.

Cleaned up the engine bay.

She is coming along nicely, need to order some new hood shocks, source a head liner, get a nice wood steering wheel, and figure out my sticky fuel level sensor and she will be 100%

Joe G's 1977 E24 Daily build.

Joe G's 1977 E24 Daily build.

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