PNW Chit Chat thread

[brutus87]

^
This.
He cant himself or anyone with a non running car lol

[cg138]

That sucks to hear 5toes, I hope you get your car fixed soon.

Also, happy birthday to DrJosh!

[george graves]

They will be here by 4

The time now is 04:37 PM.

[10Toes]

Probably not his turn to use the computer yet.

[5Toes]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steering_knuckle

Google is your friend.

I looked that up. I am still confused though, can somebody give a link?

and FYI everybody... I was doing a detail on a VW eurovan, and my buddy couldn't make it... so I had to work quick and get it back by 4:30 (I did)

Pics tomorrow... I havn't even looked at the car since last night

[e30Rooster]

its cool, i just bought a tempurepedic bed so its time to sleep bitches!

[Eta power]

5Toes, do you have a pegleg?

Sucks about your car. Good luck.

[5Toes]

No... I have a prosthetic of the none peggy type.

Car should be fine... eventually. I think I am going to get a part time job so I can do this RIGHT and maybe go low at the same time. I get out of school at 11:30 everyday, I could put in 20 hour weeks no problem

[Ryann]

Thanks for the info.

The one he was looking at has 135k miles.
Ill have to look at what problems they have at that mileage.

I'd recommend he stay away unless he's got plenty of cash to spend on repairs or can work on the car himself.

[John T]

Carefull with the smg 5 grand repair right there

The parts aren't super expensive, the labor is. Honestly it's a "simple" hydraulic system however it gets tough when you "need" a GT1, ICOM, or equivalent to diag/code/bleed/initiate to service the SMG system, other than that it uses the same clutch as the manual. And note that the tranny in the SMG vs manual have the same grears and ratios they are different. The only things I've seen personally so far are bad accumulators, slaves, and broken release bearing ball pins. But a few downsides is that the SMG uses all the drive sensors DSC uses, so if you have a bad wheel speed sensor the smg begins to delay shift and throw faults. If you have a bad hood striker the car will not engage gear at all, if you have a bad longitudinal accelerometer the car will stall when leaving a light up a hill. Granted I do not see the amount of repair numbers the dealer sees, in my experience these are not really common problems. Note: I've tested/hammered on an SMG at 1000 wheel that has been driving with no issues with SMG for the past few years.

[John T]

Thanks for the info.

The one he was looking at has 135k miles.
Ill have to look at what problems they have at that mileage.

Seen what you're talking about a few times, most people will break one pin like the one above and never know it. This is an issue on all S54 I don't believe they ever changed anything regarding the vanos oil pump drive. Most of the time this happens when people start the car up in the morning dead cold and just drive off. The vanos system runs at about 100 bar, to do so it uses fairly small ports to keep the pressure high, the pins that we are talking about are lubed by these small ports as well, one on each side of each pin so in the dead cold morning with dead cold oil the pins don't have sufficient impact isolation so with the motor speeding up and slowing down it the pins are basically getting hammered back and forth. And most S54 sound like shit warming up so you never think anything of it.

[HarukoE30]

I had a black E28. Bitch to keep clean. White is much easier.

You won't need to. Most of the weight is from the ass end of the trans, so it will keep itself supported.

Was completely covered in oil, but I did this with a garden hose & Super Clean. Thanks Austin

its cool, i just bought a tempurepedic bed so its time to sleep bitches!

Ever since I got mine from my sister & she only used hers for like 3 weeks before the Navy. Haven't slept so good in my entire life. Enjoy the ZzZzZz's I know I do every time I sleep.

[e30Rooster]

You have a tranny in your room.

[Ryann]

I spy Jordan IV's! One of my favs. Or are they III's?

[gkobez]

The s54 gear is weird usually you get a code but not always. A while back I found these

http://www.drvanos.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=5&Itemid=6

5toes: steering knuckle is basically the part that the wheel bolts to, which is where the rotors, brakes, hub, wheel bearing, wheel studs etc all mount on.