TehRaydarlover's AWD Lover

[litu]

Nice :)

[TehRaydarlover]

Been really busy lately.. I graduated from Milwaukee School of Engineering with a degree in mechanical engineering back in May and have been kinda taking the summer off having fun. Fast forward. I accepted a job offer back in September and moved from Rochester, MN back to the Milwaukee, WI area and am now working 10hr days starting at 5am ugg. Should have some more updates coming in soon. Until then, cheers..

[TehRaydarlover]

Picked up and am parting out an s52, keeping the rods ;)


$60 for sticky tires, why not?

Another 885 head to play with? sure

Went to a MadFurther also, mmh

[TehRaydarlover]

Thanks guys

Good work.

How's the interior?

Interior is pretty minty, crack free dash, no tears in the seats, nice carpet etc. here are some old pics from when I first got the car(kick panel replaced:)) I also finally tracked down a break in the oil level sensor wiring so now I have no illuminated lights on the dash or check panel yay!

Great build! I was just at the bmw museum this July as well! Awesome place and I also walked onto the M platform ;)

lol good, glad I'm not the only one leaving drool on the cars :D

[Northern]

How haven't I seen this thread yet? Awesome work

[Balleristic31]

Great build! I was just at the bmw museum this July as well! Awesome place and I also walked onto the M platform ;)

[TimeMachinE30]

Good work.

How's the interior?

[litu]

Cool

[TehRaydarlover]

Enough fun back to Minnesota

Cleaning my smileys



Got everything ready to be put back together when I noticed a bit of a problem. Broken subframe bolt :'( Funny I didn't even notice it broke until I came back from vacation and was ready to put it all back together. The bolt stayed in the subframe when it came down.


I bought an extractor and tried to get the broken subframe bolt out but nothing would work. Soaked it in penetrating oil for 3 days, tried heating it with a torch, nothing... ended up drilling it out and retapping the hole. Put the subframe back on and the new bolt fit perfectly! Thank God! Such a relief seeing I had to drill it out with a hand drill.


Got the new smileys installed and the city lights all wired up after dealing with finding a break in the passengers side wiring.


Got the new front driveshaft all welded and painted


So after all the work I now have rebuilt front axles, new control arms with m3 offset bushings, motor mounts, power steering rack, pump, and reservoir, upper strut mounts, all new belts, euro smileys, German check panel, and new fluids in the front/rear diffs transmission, and transfer case. I also tracked down the broken wire for my oil level sensor so now I have no lights on the dash or check panel! yay :)

As a reward for all the work I went to a car show and found a 1957 Isetta! So cool!

[TehRaydarlover]

Took me two long days to get everything disassembled... break time, off to Europe :)

5 days in Paris, France


4 day in Luzern, Switzerland




Saw my first touring and it was an ix :') thing was unbelievable must have just been restored. You could perform surgery on the underside of this thing. I tried knocking on the door but no one was home :(



3 days in Salzburg, Austria


Then finally 3 days in Munich, Germany


Picked up some euro goodies at a junkyard in Munich


THEN THE BMW WELT AND MUSEUM!!!





Another 325ix touring!!

neat

Cleanest m20 ever

Z1

2002


The ///M division, I was the first person in the museum because I had to catch my plane to go home, not sure if you are suppose to go up on the platform the cars are on but no one was around so I did haha.











Flying over Greenland

[TehRaydarlover]

Bit of an update, I noticed that both of my drivers side front cv boots were torn so I decided it was time to swap in the axles I rebuild a while ago. One thing kinda led to another and I ended up replacing a lot of parts.

Got every thing pulled apart. Out with the old and in with the new

[AWDBOB]

Me too haha. I've been following your thread dealing with the GC coilovers, awesome work. I'm hoping you will have everything figured out by the time I am ready for the conversion haha.

Thanks, man. I have a fresh set of axles and the sleeves that I need to raise the car up a tad more, so fingers crossed this will fix my axle issues once and for all!

[TehRaydarlover]

Excited to see where this goes!

Me too haha. I've been following your thread dealing with the GC coilovers, awesome work. I'm hoping you will have everything figured out by the time I am ready for the conversion haha.

[kid325e]

Sub'd! Love where you're taking this.

Been slowly stockpiling parts for my iX build! Keep up the great work!

[AWDBOB]

Excited to see where this goes!