Another little update. I got the crank case vent tube o-rings and washer in from BMW, and went ahead and installed them. Here's a trick, use two small zip ties to compress the spring without having to hold it while manipulating the tube into place. PS, I snagged this pick from a dude's build on bimmerforums. Just using this as a reference:
I took the car for a drive and it idles SIGNIFICANTLY better, but it's not perfect. It still dies after a minute or two, and I want to say I'm chalking that up to five (5) month old gas. However, at the end of my small drive around the block I experienced a terrible idle issue. All of the sudden as I pulled out of a parking lot onto a 30mph street I started getting idle spikes, not surges. Like half a second long spikes, and when I went to press on the gas, it would bog down. I turned the car off during my roll then restarted. So I'm guessing this is an electrical issue. Maybe the TPS. It's probably a 200k old TPS.
back to the hustle of getting this thing road worthy again. Oh and definitely working on the damn power steering tomorrow.
I took the car for a drive and it idles SIGNIFICANTLY better, but it's not perfect. It still dies after a minute or two, and I want to say I'm chalking that up to five (5) month old gas. However, at the end of my small drive around the block I experienced a terrible idle issue. All of the sudden as I pulled out of a parking lot onto a 30mph street I started getting idle spikes, not surges. Like half a second long spikes, and when I went to press on the gas, it would bog down. I turned the car off during my roll then restarted. So I'm guessing this is an electrical issue. Maybe the TPS. It's probably a 200k old TPS.
back to the hustle of getting this thing road worthy again. Oh and definitely working on the damn power steering tomorrow.
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