E30 Zone

Yep, checked blue & brown, still have the same ones today.

I agree that borrowing an ECU to see if it makes a difference would be a great idea, before trying the solder reflow.

I went through EVERYTHING before trying this. I was 100% sure of no air leaks, had disassembled everything including TPS, spent hours checking electrical connections from engine bay back, replaced injectors etc. I even rigged a fuel pressure sensor I could see while I was driving because I thought i...

Sorry, forgot the details. 1986 325i M20B25 auto. There's nothing new on it. The noise is always a rapid woodpecker tempo and doesn't vary with the car speed. No new tyres or anything I could pin this down to. The last thing I did was fit a new water pump and the water leaks have completely stopped,...

Everything is running fine and the car is going really well. But there's a weird noise. It comes from the left side and doesn't appear to have any discernible trigger. It sounds like a woodpecker, a rapid tap-tap-tap-tap that is more blunted. I've heard something like it with a pump that wasn't prim...

I have a problem with the indicators, the steering wheel column indicator stalk is working intermittently. If normal indicator operation makes a sound like tick, tick, tick, tick, with the dash and exterior lamps flashing, what I have goes ticktickticktick twice as fast and neither the dash nor the ...

Yeah watch that cam shroud - if you put it back behind the bottom shroud it rubs, it goes in front. In my car at least the lower shroud tends to come forward with the top removed leaving space for the upper shroud to slide in behind, inviting the mistake.

This will take you a while to read but it's very interesting. I felt fine ignoring the parts store guy when he told me not to buy 0W-40 synthetic for my E30 anyway. http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/faq.php?faq=haas_articles Assuming it's accurate - if not maybe someone can explain what parts are wro...

Are your hoses connected the right way round? The heater core is a one way flow. I put them back on the way they seemed to naturally fit best after doing some other work and had no heating until I swapped them back.

Looks just like mine (thought maybe yours has more?)

The space under that plate in the rocker cover is very hard to get to. Has anyone drilled out the rivets to clean it? How did you re-fasten it? Or do you need solvent (what kind?) and maybe some pressure?

How can you have a 14 post long thread on an OP that could have been answered in full by two identical numbers and two identical letters??? Quite easy Brian. It's E30Zone, it's what invariably happens here. :roll: Give it another couple of posts and the argument will break out. :mad: The alternativ...

What you are looking for on the meter is the same as what you see when touching the probes together. Sounds like your meter is showing a reading in ohms in which case "000" means no resistance, or connected. "005" is pretty much the same thing, a DMM will usually show some very small resistance in o...

e30topless wrote:
aeberbach wrote:Never saw the point of the E30 radiator plug.
it's there for a reason !

If the hole wasn't there then it wouldn't have a reason

Can you solder, know anyone who can? I fixed an intermittent 325i cutout by reflowing all the solder joints in the ECU. Did everything else described here including mounting an inline fuel pressure gauge when I ran out of things to try. Soon as I touched up the solder no more problems. Solder is a b...

If it's in there and won't come out and it is watertight - put some high temperature silicon over it, put a hose clamp over it to be sure and leave it there. Remove a hose to drain it in future. If you can get it out (shouldn't be hard at all with a ez-out, since it is plastic) then you can easily b...

Kind of funny how so many people use them and never notice a problem. Bosch or NGK doesn't matter as long as you get the right ones, W8LCR or their NGK equivalent. Fancy platinum or quad electrodes is not helpful.

Well I got to spend some quality time with the car, and I got my son involved - he's 7 and was pleased to help. Fixed the snapped-off bolt with a bent-bolt arrangement that's nice and secure. Now the distributor is square on the correctly mounted cam shroud and silent with new rotor and cap. Adjuste...

What an utter bastard of a job. I had the M6 bolt that attaches the front cam pulley shroud break off recently and it's staying there.

Here's a page that may help:
http://www.asashop.org/autoinc/may2003/techtotech.htm

If you have steels now then bottlecaps would be an easy (and very cheap) upgrade, though not larger.

Do the water pump. You can think of it as wasting a small amount of money now, or saving 3 hours a couple of months from now.

Have you checked the throttle position switch outputs where they plug into the computer? Lots of guides say measure this, measure that... but if your 20+ years old wiring between component and Motronic has corroded, been hacked by an alarm/stereo installer or is otherwise damaged your within-spec re...

I should have changed the water pump when I put the new head on. But I was confident it could be done quickly because I'd done it all once. Having fiddled with all the hoses for a couple of months I was pretty sure the water leak (about a litre a week) must be the water pump bearing, no sign of it c...

Mine too - once I fixed the finger-tight exhaust manifold nuts, the noise went away.

First time the bloody things have ever loosened by themselves, they usually weld themselves on! Replaced them all with good new copper locknuts.

IMO the vertically-oriented auxiliary tank is a bloody useless system. I have a SA build and the car is extremely hard to fill to capacity. Because the fuel fills from the bottom through a large pipe while air exits from the top of the aux tank through a smaller and more complicated system of pipes ...

beemerbird wrote:Isn't a grinder that gets into tight spaces a Dremel?

No, it's a toy!

It's a beaut, congratulations. Looks very original too!

Ant wrote:forget the USB route dude.

trust me, DB9 is the way forwards !

USB works fine. I've done many embedded projects requiring a fully programmable serial port and Keyspan's USB-to-serial adapters are great, even the four port version is good.

(since this is a RHD car I guess the alarm connections are all around the steering column near the ECU.) Yep, it was the alarm fitters. I looked inside the RH front door pillar armed with the wiring diagram and looked for the gn/blu, yl/blu wires that are supposed to make the control unit lock/unloc...

You need an E-14 torx socket for the head bolts. And a torque wrench. You may need a long breaker bar to do the progressive 90 degree tightening as you reassemble. Good idea to buy new copper exhaust nuts. Slinging some kind of beam over the car will make getting the head off much easier, you raise ...

I will need to pull out the panel over the pedals this weekend to check out the earth idea.

I have always used the key to lock/unlock. The alarm was just ballast - did done nothing since I got the car.

I finally decided to remove the ancient Cobra alarm (couldn't find any reference to it on the net, not prepared to take it to Cobra for a day for reprogramming/troubleshooting) so I took it out. I had long since disconnected it from the green immobiliser wires so I just had to blank off things like ...

78gizmo wrote:A plumbers van in our area has WH0 5HAT (WH05 HAT), toilet humor always raises a smile!
A porsche in a road near mine has P4WKA.

If you lived in Melbourne you'd be sure to call PooWee Plumbing then.

So let's say you had some kind of smash. The insurance inspector takes a peek, as they do... what then?

Or is this just the compulsory must-have cover that some places require? Where I live it's part of the yearly registration charge.

Yesterday morning I saw a very nice E30 M3 - plate was "M3INIT". That's a plate I'd have! What are the best you've seen? Who in your opinion has failed to look like a complete wand-polisher, while saying something about their car, that made it worth the custom plate fee... in just 6 or so characters...

pelicanparts.com has new OEM E30 keys with the internal light, or did two weeks ago when I got mine.

Metho, not a bad idea. But you might have to squirt a lot in there to displace all the water. I stuck a tube into the bolt holes and sucked out the liquid. A nasty mix of rusty water and WD-40 it was too, mints would have been more useful than beer in that situation but I had to make do. I did not u...

Search found 170 matches

Re: (Another) 325 running problem

Re: (Another) 325 running problem

Re: Weird noise, no effect on driving (so far) - identify?

Weird noise, no effect on driving (so far) - identify?

Steering column indicator switch failing?

Re:

Re:

Re: The fans only heat up on the low settings Help Please..

Re:

Re:

Re: Can a TPS be cleaned?

Re: Snapped bleed screw on radiator?

Re: 325i running probs

Re: Snapped bleed screw on radiator?

Re: What spark plugs for a 2.7 stroker?

Re: It was supposed to be so easy...

Re: Advice on removal of snapped exhaust studs in head

Re: Inexpensive wheel upgrades

Re: how do you remove the lower timing cover - m20

Re: Another rough idle thread

It was supposed to be so easy...

Re: god damned rocker ticking,

Re: Aditional fuel tank

Re: Where to buy a grinder....

Re: My First e30, i'm soo happy :) :)

Re: IBM/ Laptop with a DE-9 pin Plug for diagnostics connect

Re: Central locking gone from fully working to half-working

Re: Head Gasket renewal on m20 b25

Re: Central locking gone from fully working to half-working

Central locking gone from fully working to half-working

Re: Best personalised plates

Re:

Best personalised plates

Re: Keys

Re: Head Gasket sealer