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@PacerPete, will you deliver that open diff you have?

Excuse my ignorance, but how do I make an LSD out of it...?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-E34-S3-07-LSD-Limited-Slip-Diff-Differential-525-530-535-540-M5-Sport-/321070587778?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&fits=Plat_Gen%3AE34&hash=item4ac14c5f82 My search for the right ratio diff at a sensible price continues (see here http://www.e30zone.net/modules.ph...

Will it be a track or a road car? Do you do a lot of motorway miles?

Evening all, our M52 engined track car is finally nearing completion so thought I'd better try running it for an extended period of time and I've found a problem. It starts and runs cold perfectly, but once it gets warmer after 10 minutes or so it starts to get a bit lumpy, then if you give it some ...

Great, thanks guys.

I'll see how I get on tomorrow and maybe buy the tool you suggested in the week.

Got the remainder of the windows to fit as many other jobs to keep me busy, just getting fed up of throwing a cover over it every time there's a shower. Fecking weather.

Hmm, none listed on eBay specifically for BMW, lots of Mini/VW ones.

Might do the first part and then try and get a tool during the week to do the bead.

Remind me, does the split in the bead go at the top or bottom?

The proper tool I don't have... This could end well.

What does said tool look like, and is it for getting the screen back in the rubber or for putting the sealing strip round?

Going to have a go at putting the front windscreen back in tomorrow... Anyone got any tips?

Some dimensions:

Total length = 75mm
Thread Length = 40mm (Wheel nut side)
Thread Length = 13mm (Hub side)
Bullet Nose = 12mm
Hump between threads = 10mm

They look/feel very nice quality, paid £89.99 for the set inc. postage.

Might get chance to fit them tomorrow.

I risked it and ordered, will measure tonight. At a guess I'd say 80mm in total.

Think it's possible for the shoes to become skewed, have you had the discs off to have a look at what's going on?

There's not much to the mechanism itself, it might be the springs but I doubt it... Is the cable fully releasing/how much movement have you got in the handbrake lever?

I started this thread about the very same thing a while back... Still haven't got round to fitting slicks though, but I think they will fit.

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... highlight=

They've pinged me back... 16 stud sets £89.99 all in. Just trying to find out the length.

Can you get the steering wheel off with the steering lock on and without breaking anything... I seem to remember I couldn't when I tried a few weeks ago.

Whilst scouring the interweb for studs I came across this... http://www.total-bmw-mag.co.uk/news/pro ... heel-studs

Are 'West Suffolk Racing' on here? I like the look of these but it doesn't say how long they are?

if you've got 2mm clearance a 5mm shim type spacer should give more than enough clearance. my old compact ran big old 60 profile tyres, and even driven hard the top never moved enough to touch the collars. they actually touched with no spacer, used a 5mm spacer and no problems over many thousands o...

I guess as the car travels over bumps everything should move in parallel, I am concerned that the gap is too small at the moment though. The longer term thinking is bigger (both diameter & width) wheels/tyres. For the extra width I'll need to change the offset or use spacers... My thinking is you ca...

Nick why not just use long studs with alloy spacers? Your just making the whole setup 5 times heavier than it needs to be If the spacers are threaded, I don't see how I can fit studs like these http://www.rallynuts.com/wheel-studs/ait-m12-x-150-to-m12-x-150-conversion-wheel-studs.html . The bit tha...

With studs, what makes them stay in the hubs... Loctite?

Any recommendations as to where to get studs from?

Recently fitted Gaz coilovers and have the age-old problem of limited space between the collar supporting the bottom of the spring and the tyre-wall (the gap is about 2mm). I've been looking at both Eibach and H&R spacers... Both the H&R and Eibach 25mm (per-side) ones look to come with bolts and bo...

There are two sizes... What year is your car?

Try looking for 11mm, 10mm and less don't tend to be hubcentric. Is 1mm going to make much of a difference?

Straight from the Hella catalogue, no mention of Dagenham dustbins anywhere: http://i43.tinypic.com/27xlzbc.png The top light in the list, which looks like the one you've pictured above shows the following applications: http://i42.tinypic.com/55pl5z.png http://i43.tinypic.com/a164as.png It's good th...

These look OK as well, god knows what the quality or weight is like though... That's if you don't like the Firebird wheels

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-7-X-15-10 ... 4844088b7f

Are these close enough

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Orig-Pontiac- ... 4cfe7c63c7

Team Dynamics Pro-Race 1s or something else in their range I would have thought. I researched light-weight wheels a few years ago and they came out the lightest I could find for sensible money.

http://www.teamdynamicsracing.com/pro-r ... 1black.htm

Hi, what software are you using to make the flow-chart?

Thanks for the wheel bolts Sanchez, appreciated!

Thanks, that clears up what the extra hole is for, the article doesn't describe the tanks that aren't fitted with an in-tank pump.

If the internals of our tank are no different from the 55l tank that's fitted with a pump and a return on the pump housing then it looks like we can upgrade.

Ah, just had a look on eBay, most tanks on there seem to have two holes on top, I guess one is for the level-sender (left side) and the other is for the pick-up/pump (right-side). Does the return on the two hole tanks go back to the pick-up as well? Our tank only has a single hole on the right hand ...

Still available from BMW... £28!!!! For a copper pipe!

It's an earlyish 320i, mid '87 coupÃ©... Looking in the tank there is something that resembles a bowl. I will try and get a picture of what I have tonight.

The pick-up and return is pretty clagged up with rust and flakey white stuff, but it will probably clean up OK, so may not be worth changing.

Just been looking at the fuel level sender we took out at the weekend and it doesn't look to have any kind of in-tank pump, it's also in a pretty grotty condition and the fuel gauge never did work correctly. We've got an M52 under the bonnet, so we'd be relying on just the external pump to feed it, ...

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