My Hoopte30 Project Attempt #6 - the painless way to earn cash back every day

[AWDBOB]

The best part about repairing a car that runs/drives is that it can still be enjoyed while you slowly fix it up. As mjweimer put it today, "it sounds like there are more things that don't work than work".

-Horn inop (unsafe, I reaaaaly don't like driving cars without a horn)
-Speedo inop
-Blower motor inop (fuse blew, lost all function)
-Seat belts completely inop (also really unsafe)
-Lock cylinders all seized and thus inop
-Incredibly bent wheels
-Turn Signal Fast Blinkly (I suspect front turn signal grounds)
-No Radio
-Carpets still gross, need to deep clean




I had some time today so I tackled the speedo, blower motor and wheels.

I decided to throw the dforces on, since they are wrapped in new DZ102s, until the new wheels get here. The difference was INSANE. The car feels like a million bucks now with the H&R OE Sports, KYBs, centered solid rubber CABs, and E36 rack. Such a perfect setup for a daily.

Speedo I diagnosed down to the diff sensor pigtail, so I spliced a spare in, we have speedo!

I've also been getting random windshield wiper action, so I swapped the relay with a good one.

I jumped pins 30 and 87 at the relay, no horn. Checked for 12v at the horns w relay jumped, and it was present. Turned out I had one bad pigtail and two bad horns! Got lucky and had a spare 1378416 plug on the shelf thanks to a gift baggie twright gave me the last time he came up to get parts.

Blower motor I was a bit leery on since it worked previously, and then failed, so I pulled the firewall cover off and found my (hopefully) last mouse nest. When I turned the blower fan on initially, I can only assume that it sucked up some nesting and blew the fuse. I pulled the motor to make sure it spun freely, lubricated one side that was hanging up, and fitted a new resistor. I then pulled all of the dash vents and de-bio-hazard-ed them.

Need to throw the seat belts in tomorrow, and then over the weekend I will install the Continental/VDO TR7412UB-OR radio that I ordered.

She's coming together!

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[AWDBOB]

hey, that's not such a bad thing - she approves, which makes your life significantly easier (in theory, of course).

definitely feeling you re: the car payment vs. working on cars comment, as i just bought a replacement engine for my e91 today - meh

I always say that someday when I’m rich and famous I’ll have something newer than 10yrs old, but I highly doubt I ever will. I am learning that generally, I am just a glutton for punishment.

ummm hello. This is R3V. We
need more pics of your girlfriend. I always thought you were a lesbo, because of that Subaru you drove lol

man you’ve got some greedy paws. A pic of babe driving hoopte AND driving in Linda and the people still ask for more

also, both she and I still have Subarus (both blown up, of course), so big lesbo vibes in this household

[2mAn]

ummm hello. This is R3V. We need more pics of your girlfriend. I always thought you were a lesbo, because of that Subaru you drove lol

[e30austin]

nail, meet head!

She's a blessing, that's for sure. I did get a comment this morning: "can we paint it?"

I will be one happy camper when all of these shitboxes have moved on from their idle, broken state in my driveway. I am very anti car payment, but the flip side of that is working on cars constantly, which I am getting quite sick of.

It's nice to have the hoopte not be a brick anymore!

hey, that's not such a bad thing - she approves, which makes your life significantly easier (in theory, of course).

definitely feeling you re: the car payment vs. working on cars comment, as i just bought a replacement engine for my e91 today - meh

[AWDBOB]

haha! if she's willing to drive that, she's definitely a keeper, my friend. :)

nail, meet head!

She's a blessing, that's for sure. I did get a comment this morning: "can we paint it?"

I will be one happy camper when all of these shitboxes have moved on from their idle, broken state in my driveway. I am very anti car payment, but the flip side of that is working on cars constantly, which I am getting quite sick of.

It's nice to have the hoopte not be a brick anymore!

[e30austin]

haha! if she's willing to drive that, she's definitely a keeper, my friend. :)

nice progress. good on you for saving another one.

[AWDBOB]

The GF's Fiesta broke again (driving until the engine arrives for her Outback), and I couldn't get the parts in time to fix it, so she got put up in the hoopte for the week!

We have only baseline functionality, as the alignment is scheduled for Friday and the wheels/tires haven't shipped yet, but with her work only a few miles from home, it'll get her by for the week.

She floored it on the test drive and said "oh, this car is fun!"

A good sign.

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[AWDBOB]

Hoopte #5 went on her maiden voyage after I buttoned up the suspension.

I had a spare Z3M rack that I told myself I was not going to install, but ended up convincing myself to do so. I am glad I did.

I did:

H&R OE Sports (50404-55) (because KYBs)
E90 Drop Hats
KYB Struts/Shocks
Sachs USMs F&R
E36 Solid Centered CABs
Meyle Control Arms and Inner/outer Tie Rods
Z3M Rack 3.2(?) turns L2L
Rebuilt Calipers F&R w/ new pads and blank rotors
Front and Rear Stainless braided brake lines

Even after idling the car for a while and taking it around the block all of the smoke has cleared up and it's starting to run better and better. I am going to run some seafoam through her in lieu of the disgusting-ness that I saw when I had the valve cover off.

My old school O.Z.'s for whatever reason are rubbing on the new calipers. They're VW fitment, I learned, and are only 14x6, et33.

To reward Hoopte#5 I bought her some new shoes, which I will reveal at a later date.

OH, and a super cool chap gave me a well maintained M42 for Hoopte#4 for free- funny how things work out.

New but rusty rotors I had at the warehouse on a set of nice housings.

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Rack and modified linkage. Need to file some of the steering joint, as I am getting a small bit of binding.

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Free M42 (broken Subaru in background)

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This car is a POS, but it is reaaaaaly growing on me.

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[AWDBOB]

Loving all the hoopty content!

Bummer on the 318i. It reminds me of the 325i convertible I bought last year to flip. The previous owner kept saying that none of the electronics worked. I brought it home, put a battery in it, and immediately found the ignition switch wiring to be cut. I eventually got it running (after repairing the wiring and putting in a new fuel pump) but found the head gasket to be bad. I'm not sure how covering up problems by creating new problems is a good idea to some people

Thanks!! I should be driving hoopte no. 5 before too long.

Man, I feel that. This '91 318 was supposed to be an engine harness away from running, but it ended up just trading hands several times without anyone having any success, so by the time I got to it, it needed everything. It was a bummer really because the car is nice, I just can't handle such a big project on top of all of the others.

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From shit to shine - I spent quite a bit of time yesterday disinfecting the blessings left over from the previous tenant. I was in full hazmat mode, this was a gross job that I was avoiding.

From this:

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To this:

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I also found the original broken glovebox latch in the car, so I swapped over the tumbler to a good one, so I can lock the glovebox!

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[Codym42]

Loving all the hoopty content!

Bummer on the 318i. It reminds me of the 325i convertible I bought last year to flip. The previous owner kept saying that none of the electronics worked. I brought it home, put a battery in it, and immediately found the ignition switch wiring to be cut. I eventually got it running (after repairing the wiring and putting in a new fuel pump) but found the head gasket to be bad. I'm not sure how covering up problems by creating new problems is a good idea to some people

[AWDBOB]

Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Which is the hooptyist HooptE of them all?

mirror didn't offer me any guidance, only told me to lay off the potatoes

Best hooptie is running hooptie.

THIS!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...8PMdIkQvbiRrL6

Just a mental refrence...

I lust for a best hoopties that works just for fun. AWDBOBS hoopties are best hoopties. :)

bahahaha best hooptys indeed!





Smelled a smell in the new E30. Found the smell. I didn't even take a photo of the under dash panel, I just threw it out, as it was a rodent litter box, and caught whatever didn't make it to the ECU. I have some deep cleaning ahead of me.

I installed KYBs (not ideal, but super free) onto these H&R OE Sport springs with E90 Drop hats and new Sachs USMs onto good housings with rebuilt calipers and rusty but new rotors.

Quality control is suffering even at the Sachs level. One of my USMs has a TON of bearing play. Gonna run it for now, and FCP warranty it later.

Waiting on a few orders with control arms and E36 (non-offset) control arm bushings, swaybar endlinks, front braided brake lines (only had rears on the shelf), and a non-airbag E36 rack swap kit before I button up the front suspension, which may be a few weeks

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I pulled hoopte #5's cluster apart to diagnose what I assumed was a bad SI board (dead tach and coolant temp). Apparently the cluster was pulled from the Atlantic, as most bits were destroyed. SI board was heavily corroded throughout, NiCad batteries leaked, and it was also "long screwed" by the hillbilly Cory bought the car from.

Main board was also heavily corroded.

Took a good spare SI board, good spare main board, good spare tach, and polished a cluster lens and made it all work again!

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Yuuummmmm


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Good main and SI boards

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All better. ODO gears are shot, but I ordered them through Garagistic, so it may be next year until I receive them, so I just put it back together for now.

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[mjweimer]

Rare.

[moatilliatta]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7rospSVhHvf3xExWj88PMdIkQvbiRrL6

Just a mental refrence...

I lust for a best hoopties that works just for fun. AWDBOBS hoopties are best hoopties. :)

[mjweimer]

Best hooptie is running hooptie.

[Matt@EDC]

Which hoopty will be best hoopty?

Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Which is the hooptyist HooptE of them all?