Daily Fail

[arthb7]

So I figured out why the coolent was that soup color. It had some kind of a leak stop stuff mixed. When I did the water pump I flushed the whole system out and put new coolent in. Two days later my radiator was leaking a little bit of coolent. I fixed the problem with replacing with a spare radiator that I had. Problem fixed



Here is the new one doesnt look new but only has 5k miles on it






By the way Car is forsale :( if anyone is interested

[arthb7]

Update
Had some problems with the fuel pumps because of my brother lifting my car on the fuel tank.
Long story short Never buy replacement fuel pumps from OREILLY or you might take the fuel tank out for no reason
Replaced the inline pump with a Bosch unit and replaced the intank unit with BMW oem and the car works perfect!


I decided to change my timing belt, water pump, thermostat, tensioner, and coolent. Idk why I didn't do this when the engine was out.






The thermostat was bad and after replacing it the car finally heats up to normal temp
Now I have two more electrical things to work out. The OP did an terrible job wiring the CD player so I decided to fix it.





I figured out that the window circuit breaker was plugged into the stereo wiring and it would short circuit fuse 12 which is my speedometer.
I didn't know which wires were for the stereo but figured out by finding C302 plug under the dash and tracing the stereo wires.



I'm almost done rewiring the CD player and still working with finding where my actual window circuit breaker wires have gone but thanks to all the wiring
diagrams online this shouldn't take too long.



Lastly once I'm finished with the wiring problems I will have to sell the car because I'm between jobs right now and really need the money.

[arthb7]

What are the specs on the reps, and what size tire did you end up going with? I was thinking about picking up a set.

I don't remember exactly but I believe they are 16X8 20 offset. Tires are 16/215/45. I have 5mm spacers with hubcentric rings.

[Bglad]

What are the specs on the reps, and what size tire did you end up going with? I was thinking about picking up a set.

[arthb7]

Sub'd. I'm over in Normandy Park / Des Moines area if you ever need another hand!

Thanks I will keep that in mind. Most of the heavy lifting has been dealt with. Now just playing with the little things.

[TheNorthBest]

Sub'd. I'm over in Normandy Park / Des Moines area if you ever need another hand!

[D-rock]

Nice keep it up!

-Derek

[Nick_S]

Doing some nice work! Car should be awesome once it's "done".

[arthb7]

A little update.

I tried to get alignment done since I swapped the steering rack for one that didn't leak and I was told I had one control arm bent so I replaced both with new Bavarianauto control arms and used Revshift lolipop bushings






Put some Eurogrills in and Kopi smoked turnsignals still need to paint the rubber plastic



My cuzin had the front sway bar from a convertible laying around so I got it from him. Its much beefier then regular eta



Did some cleaning too




It snowed a week ago so I took a picture

[arthb7]

Nice! Some kinda nasty soup you had for coolant!

Forgive my ignorance but what kind of bumper is on the Henna?

That soup did the job for a while! lol

Henna has the euro bumpers!

[arthb7]

There was an issue with the heads of the hex head bolts breaking off and the head bouncing around like a pinball game, have found a few broken ones and have had to replace a couple cyl heads back in the day from the cam lobe smashing the broken bolt head into the cyl head.

Haven't heard of that before but would be a good idea to change them out. Do I just replace them for the same OEM ones or get some other kind?

Thanks

[DER E30]

Nice! Some kinda nasty soup you had for coolant!

Forgive my ignorance but what kind of bumper is on the Henna?

[whodwho]

The headgasket is not leaking what would be the point of changing the bolts?

There was an issue with the heads of the hex head bolts breaking off and the head bouncing around like a pinball game, have found a few broken ones and have had to replace a couple cyl heads back in the day from the cam lobe smashing the broken bolt head into the cyl head.

[arthb7]

Great work so far. Paint Looks great. That jar of coolant is scary O_O

Yeah the paint is pretty good. Still need to buff. plus these are iphone pics I will get some high resolution pics soon.

The coolent scared too but after flushing the system and putting all new coolent its the right color now. My guess is that the coolent was never flushed.

[arthb7]

Nice work, should make for a good daily.

You should change the head bolts out, the hex head ones were know to break the heads off. You can change them out one at a time without pulling the head.

The headgasket is not leaking what would be the point of changing the bolts?