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1) Running 2.5l engine & gearbox 2) Disc brake rear beam 3) 51mm front struts If the sum of what I might get for those is likely to be more than i'd get for this; http://i658.photobucket.com/albums/uu301/RustyVonThrash/temporary_zps3c2f3f3f.jpg Then i'll probably break it. Is it going to be worth th...

Are they all the same? need one for a facelift 316, seem to be a few from 318 on ebay. They look the same . . . .

Anyone been following his exploits rallying in a chromie 325i ?

. . . . I think. Took the front struts off to swop the springs, and once the springs were off, the rod was slowly sucked back into the cylinder to about the halfway point. This doesn't seem right to me. Any ideas?

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Not sure if "interchangability" is actually a word, and not sure if the lowering springs i kept off my old 2 door 320 will be right for my current 4 door 325. Are all 6 pot springs swappable?

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I should have posted this 6 months ago when Matt sorted me with a full cars worth of lemforder bushes and balljoints for my E30. So refreshing to talk to someone who knows what they're doing, called be back to let me know what was available in the tight timescale is was working to, and discounted th...

Aaaaaahhh! How thick am i?

You sir, have saved me further hours of grief, thankyou very much

The ferrule on the end of the outer cable hasn't rusted into the back plate, it's out and loose. And the bit on the end of the cable is too big to be pushed through the backplate. If you have to cut it to remove it, how do you fit a new one??

Ranchero wrote: It needs to be poked through the other way.

As in, the end of the cable that attaches to the brake shoes, should be poked through the backplate towards the centre of the car? . . . . 'cos that's not what im doing . . . .

The cables have dissapeared down the guide tubes, and i've had both feet braced against the hub while i tug on the wheel end of the cable :? Fearing the worst i've just rung the dealers for a price on cables. The man says the inner and outer come as one, "you can't seperate them". That would make se...

Im trying to get the handbrake cables off my rear disc'd E30. Took the nuts off the lever ends of the cables, got the discs, shoes and other gubbins off, even had the foresight to spray some wd40 down the tubes from the lever end. They both pulled out about 10" then stopped. Sort of ground to a halt...

But new lemforder everything from mr meatballs at ecp was a better idea. :D Front and rear ARB bushes from the bmw dealer, Matt sorted me with a good price on rear beam bushes, trailing arm bushes, ARB droplinks front and rear, and complete front wishbones. I have a powerflex diff bush, and have had...

They look like a good idea! Thanks!

All very encouraging

thanks chaps. The car is a manual, and about to get all its rear bushes replaced, so should be up to the job. . . . I promise to get pics of the forthcoming jacknife calamity . . .

Are they up to it? I've pulled a trailer which weighed 470kg alone with most of a 3 foot high brick chimney in it, my 325 seemed to cope ok, still braked alright etc. Im hoping to pull a caravan chassis trailer (300kgs?) with a stripped out and lightened mk1 fiesta on it (700kg?). . . . So, i suppos...

I have done subframe bushes before, it is a pig of a job, and i totally agree with not wanting to do it again too soon. BUT, the new vibring bushes are already fitted to another spare beam. I could just swap the beam, taking half the time of removing old and then fitting new lemforders to the beam t...

Sickening.

Similar thing happened to a mate 10 years ago. The cnuts took his project car, tools, spares, anything metalic. Took his enthusiasm aswell, he's not picked up a spanner since, runs a company car avensis now

Really feel for the guy.

Due to many years of running e30s into the ground, buying bits and never fitting them, i have some bushes i had planned to use when my 325i fails it's forthcoming mot. I understand Lemforder is a quality brand, what do people think of Vibring, Corteco, and (what i think says) Topren?

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Planted.

Slot car handling.

Bugger.

Are the centre caps for 14" BBS crossspokes the same as the ones for 15"?

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A reduction from 195/65 to 195/50 isn't a reduction of 15mm. The 65 and 50 represent a percentage of the width (195), not a millimeter value. 65% of 195 is 127mm 50% of 195 is 97mm Then remember that's just the sidewall between the rim and the tread, so that's TWO sidewalls to affect the entire dia...

It's gotta be the 14" wheels for various reasons - no money for anything else being the main one. I gettit that smaller overall rolling radius means better acceleration, less top end. But would a 15mm reduction in profile really be noticable? Saying that would it even be visually noticable? I plan t...

Got a set of 14" bbs cross spoke alloys i've just refurbed, so now i need tyres. Currently running 195/65 on 14" bottle tops. Not to keen on the balloon like appearance of these, so was thinking 195/50 possibly?? Not sure how much his would affect gearing/speedometer though? . . . .

Any suggestions?

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Got home from work at 6pm, just finished a short test drive after fixy fixy. Thanks again!

. . . is it easy to do? Pretty sure the reason i have no clutch is a leaking slave cylinder, (pool of fluid under car, biting point moved when you pressed the clutch down for anything more than 5 seconds before it went completely). I have one removed from a pre-facelift 320i, only a few months old -...

I have some experience of this. . . . :evil: I got kenwood 7"x10"s to fit in my 1984 320i without cutting at all, didn't need spacers to lift the speakers or anything. It was a tight fit, but the magnets were not touching anything when i'd finished. I removed the speakers when the car was scrapped, ...

Nice one, got a new relay same day from scotthall, fitted on their forcourt, hasn't played up since.

If it does i'll go for the crank sensor next.

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Thank you. I'll pm you tonight.

Oh how i wish i'd read this a year ago. My girlfriend has ended up in a situation that possibly could have been avoided.

Is E30BeemerLad still able to advise on such matters? Please?

Is that the white 5 pin relay in front of the scuttle? sits next to an orange one?

My friends 1988 316i has had a cutting out problem for a while now. Normally happens within 10 mins of starting the engine, seems to be more common when the car is on a slope, and won't start for 5 mins afterwards. I have noticed the rev counter needle drops to zero immeadiately when it does cut out...

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What's the going rate for . . .

Brake servos

Monkey Harris

Knackered shocks . . . .

Has this been on here yet?

Spring interchangability.

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what have i done wrong?

Anyone use their E30 for towing?

Rear bushes.

Centre caps.

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tyre size?

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Clutch slave cylinder replacement.

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Another cutting out question.