Sonny's Weak M10 Build

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  • Melon
    E30 Fanatic
    • Mar 2018
    • 1311

    #151
    Originally posted by 2mAn
    words to live by ;)
    I laughed.

    Love you Sonny.
    I do things.

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    • Melon
      E30 Fanatic
      • Mar 2018
      • 1311

      #152
      Originally posted by Sonny
      Car suddenly started smoking white as soon as I got home at idle. Maybe it was the Carwash going in the muffler and seafoam residue as it coated my trunk and bumper with oil residue also last I ran a can in the vacuum line 2 weeks ago when and the car had sat since with only 30 miles after the seafoam. Hopefully so as I don’t want to find out I have coolant loss, going to wait for her to get cold and start, we’ll see if she smokes or hard to start as that would mean I might have cracked my block on impact.
      All the coolant is in the head and the top part of the block around the cylinder sleeves. Also, your motor mounts would insulate it from impact.

      Check all the hose clamps, give them a turn. Also, squeeze the hoses, there's only a few of them. If it persists rent a pressure tool from AutoZone and do a leak test. Basically you pump pressure in the system with an air pump, then look for leaks.

      My money is on a bad hose, or water pump.
      I do things.

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      • Sonny
        Banned
        • Feb 2019
        • 100

        #153
        the side that took the impact has a lot of toe.
        I threaded both tie rods to 10 open threads showing. Steering wheel has to be held turned to passenger side.

        Driver side was the side that dropped

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        • Sonny
          Banned
          • Feb 2019
          • 100

          #154
          Originally posted by Melon
          All the coolant is in the head and the top part of the block around the cylinder sleeves. Also, your motor mounts would insulate it from impact.



          Check all the hose clamps, give them a turn. Also, squeeze the hoses, there's only a few of them. If it persists rent a pressure tool from AutoZone and do a leak test. Basically you pump pressure in the system with an air pump, then look for leaks.



          My money is on a bad hose, or water pump.


          It’s stopped doing it boss. Do you think a bad hose or water pump could make steam come out the exhaust?

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          • Melon
            E30 Fanatic
            • Mar 2018
            • 1311

            #155
            Originally posted by Sonny
            It’s stopped doing it boss. Do you think a bad hose or water pump could make steam come out the exhaust?
            It's out the exhaust? I wouldn't worry about that, that's just condensation.
            I do things.

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            • Melon
              E30 Fanatic
              • Mar 2018
              • 1311

              #156
              Also, get and alignment.
              I do things.

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              • Sonny
                Banned
                • Feb 2019
                • 100

                #157
                Originally posted by Melon
                Also, get and alignment.


                Redoing my inner tie rods already have new locking plates, probably not tight enough. Brought some wheel weights to add the ones chipped off.

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                • Sonny
                  Banned
                  • Feb 2019
                  • 100

                  #158

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                  • Sonny
                    Banned
                    • Feb 2019
                    • 100

                    #159
                    Sonny's Weak M10 Build

                    Can anyone help me out? I want to get new tires/ alignment. But I absolutely don’t want any of the workers driving it? Is it okay to ask them not to. I know it’s a old m10, but I care for it and don’t want a teenager ripping my gears .
                    Last edited by Sonny; 05-06-2019, 08:30 PM.

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                    • glnr13
                      E30 Fanatic
                      • Oct 2011
                      • 1334

                      #160
                      up the ramps, down the ramps. where else are they going to go beyond 5mph?
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                      • Sonny
                        Banned
                        • Feb 2019
                        • 100

                        #161
                        Originally posted by glnr13
                        up the ramps, down the ramps. where else are they going to go beyond 5mph?


                        They drive it around the block to test everything.

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                        • DaWildBeast
                          Wrencher
                          • Mar 2016
                          • 244

                          #162
                          Originally posted by Sonny
                          They drive it around the block to test everything.


                          Never heard of that tbh, an alignment doesn’t take long you can literally sit in the waiting room.


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                          • Sonny
                            Banned
                            • Feb 2019
                            • 100

                            #163
                            Originally posted by DaWildBeast
                            Never heard of that tbh, an alignment doesn’t take long you can literally sit in the waiting room.


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                            Maybe it’s just the place I go to, any chain retailers that don’t do this that you recommend? Les Schwab maybe but I feel there to cheap.

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                            • DaWildBeast
                              Wrencher
                              • Mar 2016
                              • 244

                              #164
                              Originally posted by Sonny
                              Maybe it’s just the place I go to, any chain retailers that don’t do this that you recommend? Les Schwab maybe but I feel there to cheap.


                              Les Schwab does it I think it’s around $100 or less. They also give you a print out of the specs for the alignment when it’s finished.


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                              • Melon
                                E30 Fanatic
                                • Mar 2018
                                • 1311

                                #165
                                Originally posted by Sonny
                                Can anyone help me out? I want to get new tires/ alignment. But I absolutely don’t want any of the workers driving it? Is it okay to ask them not to. I know it’s a old m10, but I care for it and don’t want a teenager ripping my gears .
                                99.99% Of teenagers can't drive a manual anyway.
                                I do things.

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