Mr. B's House of Hoopties

[MrBurgundy]

My truck's steering has been particularly shitty recently... It was honestly difficult to drive the truck at highway speeds, so I ordered up the inner tie rod and drag link. Outer tie rods were changed when I got the truck, these ball joints were the last ones left.

I had a trip out to the desert this past weekend, so I wanted to address that. Also, my bake lines were pretty worn, so I picked up a set from 4wheel parts 20 minutes from my shop in compton, which was awesome. Extended for my lift and were supposed to be a direct fit.

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Plenty of slack now for when the wheel drops and turns to lock

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I love the look of beams. They're just so beefy

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Also did some boring stuff, like turn the rotors and a fresh set of pads. Brake pedal was pulsing bad because of the rotors. Nice and smooth now.

Running out of things to replace on this lil fckr..


This is our plot of desert land. 'MERICA

Had a fun weekend shooting, drinking beers and continuing to clear the land of shrubs.

Next week I'll be returning to fill some ruts in the road for our up coming event. Will be taking a load of gravel and a drag mat to tidy it up. It's about a three mile stretch that needs to be worked on.

Many beers to drink. Many holes to fill. har har har

We got a drone now, so sick pics are cuming.

NEXT HOOPTIE

Got the HVAC panel out the e30 to fix some broken bulbs, a perpetually spinning recirculation stepper motor, the OBC display and tidy up some DIY stereo install nonsense. Also, my PS system has been a little leaky, so it's going to get a refresh on everything minus the rack.

Parts patiently waiting to be installed..

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The nest

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NEXT HOOTIE

The batteries in my e39 keys are both dead. If you don't know e39 keys and all others from that gen minus the 7 series had non serviceable batteries, so you have to cut the key open to access the battery, then you have to cut these tiny little spot welds on the prongs that contact either side of the battery.

DUMB - but we make it work

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In recovery

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Began the deep clean of the e39 interior and got some parts to fix the stereo pixel display, cupholders, the center storage bin and another storage tray on the armrest.

I purchased this pneumatic carpet tornado thingy. Worth every penny.

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The amount of dust that came off was honestly disturbing.

Super happy with this tool

Smelt some burning of oil, so the VCG needs to be replaced today..

[roguetoaster]

Again, Dakota convertible is what you need.

[2mAn]

...I should get that Rusty FJ just to keep up with the times...

If I have a good vert to play with I’d be more inclined to dump money into a rust bucket (not talking about the Alfa)

[roguetoaster]

I see, quite the hooptie.

[MrBurgundy]

Finally cleaned the car up a bit and installed the BMW rack that the PO generously dropped off for me along with the missing rear head rests.
Been driving the car around and it's been great so far. Just needs a few things, like interior bits, seat twist, stereo pixels and other e39 things

Still a steal, very happy with my active three car garage (Ranger, E30, E39)

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[MrBurgundy]

Maybe this thread will just be a collection of all the cars..

New to me 1 owner 525i 5spd DD

102k on the clock, runs great. Just a few interior bits need to be replaced.

The drivers seat has the classic e39 seat twist, which isn't too hard to fix.

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[roguetoaster]

Exactly.

[MrBurgundy]

Oh, Ford and their silly beam "suspension."

When I hit a bump / /----\ \

Coming out of the bump \ \----/ /

then

[roguetoaster]

Oh, Ford and their silly beam "suspension."

[MrBurgundy]

Took the truck up to the mountains this past weekend. It's no 4x4 but it got us up some icy hills, surprisingly.

You can really tell why 4x4 is king in those situations.

On our way down back we decided to hit some trails at the base of the mountain. The truck did great in the sand, even in the powdery sections.

I wanted to see how the truck would do going up a pretty steep incline on a mildly muddy track, so I turn off the main trail to go for it.

BOOM massive dip.

The front left spring slipped out............................

I limped it back to the main road.. Thankfully made it... Had to uber to autozone to get a floor jack and roadside fixed it and made it back with no other issues lol.

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truck def needs a wash today

[MrBurgundy]

damn, I have no idea they were that expensive

Yeah used engines are crazy expensive rn.. It's like that across the board.. except 5 cyl VW motors, those are like 200 bucks lol

[2mAn]

damn, I have no idea they were that expensive

[MrBurgundy]

Can you get an ecoboost cheap? The 4cylinder turbo is a good motor

Those are expensive af, its about 2k off the cummins.

LKQ is pushing ecoboosts for about 4.5k-5k

[2mAn]

Can you get an ecoboost cheap? The 4cylinder turbo is a good motor

[MrBurgundy]

I've driven one with an 88 T-bird swap, and it was meh. Not at all what I hoped for having driven a 2.3 NA Ranger for some years.

Sadly the turbo Limas are neither reliable (arguably never were) or cheap these days, and it would be a lot like putting a stock M50 in an E30 today.

Yeah, I hear you.. I was actually looking at engines this afternoon and was looking at engines north of 2k lol

We'll see what I end up doing..

This would be cool too, but it's EXPENSIVE

https://www.cummins.com/engines/repower