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R plate e36 saloon in black with ratty wings, £750 cash with tax until Feb and a full year's MOT. Its an SE so it has more toys than I can use! Needed a new stat and the boot was locked shut. Since I bought it on the 23rd it has had the above work, an oil service and is set for new front pads and di...

hennared323i wrote:
Andyboy wrote:ign on and heater set to hot
This is why I love this site - little pearls of wisdom

sorry for the OT Johnna

No need to apologise. You are entirely correct, there is a wealth of knowledge available on the zone.

After all you can't be as old as Andy and not gather some wisdom!

Cheers Andy!

Cheers Harry.
Thanks for the reassurance.

Wait, I'm being thick...

... one hose should be hot, the other cold

It appears that check control sensors stick. They are float valves that don't always float.

Just how pressurised is the system meant to get?

M52b28... The cabin blowers blowed cold and the temp guage needle never raised into the middle of the guage, only reaching just over the first white line and often falling short, even on a 40 mile run. Thermostat I thought... especially as it took ages to warm up. so, being a pedant for correct cool...

Engine one: I've just bought an e36 328i with a full MOT and low mileage. The body is sound, but who knows what a full year will do to it... My plan is to source M50 bits and bobs to squeeze more power from it, then to sell the engine and ancilliaries on the zone for a 24V conversion. Engine two: I'...

Thanks chaps. Woohoo!

Sorry to dig this old thread up, but I've bought a cheap 323 lump. I understand it has 2500ish cc. I understand the Alloy blocked M52s were detuned units. If I were to fit an M52 Vanos inlet (inc injectors), throttle body and ECU would I see decent power, or should I get M50b25 cams too? Thanks chaps.

Have used both Adrian Flux and Performance direct.

Both have been excellent in my experience.

Non- sunroof M3evo cabriolets are really quite common. Have not seen a cabby with a sunroof yet.

Megasquirt?

Worn turbo oil seals cause this.

This is probably one of a few suspects.

Nikasil problems can show as overheating, but mainly through lack of compression. The m52 engine has an alloy head and an alloy block. Read up on Lee Parkes M52 swap into a compact and you'll see the worrysome side of the M52. That said I have overheated the engine in my m52b20 with no longer term d...

Simon is dead proud of that Avatar. Suffered during Ice Hockey IIRC. Nikasil is a compound material that was used in a number of alloy cased BMW engines to save weight. It was okay when tested using higher grade fuels in Germany. Many people in the UK bought cars with the engines and used supermarke...

Rear arches, boot floor especially under battery. Jack it up on each jacking point using the BMW jack to test the sills. Inspect the area surrounding all four jacking pucks too. Rear driveline- Rear shock top mounts fail, lower arm front bushes go and make huge clonks. Diff mounts can tear holes in ...

Leon 'arris? "Ask 'im ref! Ask im!"

I was never fortunate to meet him, but did see him wrestle at the City Hall many a time. Oh happy memories!

Have you seen Kes, the film that still is from?

IIRC the 2.2 is also a four pot.

Thanks fella!

Was starting to worry that you'd want an hourly rate for the work you've put in!

Its has a recon rad.
The viscous fan test... an old paper? Surely a knackered viscous link over cools because it goes stiff?

It goes red on a run when I've given it a bit of welly (not a lot though), but no trip longer than ten miles.

Well it keeps pointing towards the red.

I shut it down and let it cool.

I'd say debris was the issue if I hadn't taken off the pump and stat housing and flushed before refilling.

The pump has a metal impeller.
The stat housing no longer leaks.
Compressions are fine

I'm beat!

Thanks fellas. Basically, I'll hunt a full loom and ecu in order to go a few cc up. But the M52 stuff would run the M50 if I stay 2litre. And finally, perhaps the cooling system has not been well kept up to my ownership. I could spend many hundreds getting it to cool well, but what damage could have...

I have an M52 engined 320i. I'd feel more comfortable with the old iron blocked M50. If I were to fit a Vanos M50b20tu, would all of my M52b20tu ancillaries fit? Say for arguments sake it was a bare engine... Also would my engine management happily run the M50? Finally, say I found an M50b25tu... .....

Stood about for 15 years just outside Belfast?

I'd be checking for tupperware!

Looks a great project mind. Well done.

magpie wrote:
paul1985 wrote:it says i'm trying to veiw a restricted area bud
try it again,it worked for me?

Only because you live in a restricted area! LOL!

I opened it no bother too...

when i wind this one up, it goes all right actually, i was suprised, but its still drinking the fuel. i suspect something is wrong still as it feels like when its low down revs its bogging down a bit, and then when you rev it it goes well. It does need a nsr wheel bearing though, i dont know how mu...

Heavy car, little engine, high consumption.
A 325i touring would do better than my 320i touring.

Chester-le-street, centre of the known universe.

Surely it is the same as an e36 steering rack?

I had a problem like this on a Pug (I know...) it turned out to be a faulty diode on the back of the alternator, dripping the stored charge down overnight.

A replacement alternator and I was giggling!

Trade card at Halfords- wipers for an e36 were under £5 all in.

Swapping the rear bearing: A shitplate putting the shit in shitplate- I wonder why the handbrake didn't work?: http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a366/petrolheed/DSC00319.jpg That collar was tight tight tight: http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a366/petrolheed/DSC00310-1.jpg My first extraction tool- ...

The centre bearing went on my old e30 325 and clonked and clonked. I've got a squeal coming from the tunnel of the e36... ...in all gears and neutral when moving ...not in neutral when parked up ...in gear with the passenger rear wheel jacked off the ground ...nothing is touching the prop ...the cen...

StuBeeDoo wrote:'Ello again Buddy!!

The touring's dead again!

Nooo!

Fancy setting up the dead touring club? I can join you if you stretch to e36's.

Is it meant to be this hard to get the hub off?

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