E30 Zone

i am a complete novice when it comes to car maintenance but im willing to have a go, this afternoon i had to jack the car up on my brand spanking new trolley jack,
guess where i put it, heres a clue, drip drip drip

spook wrote:i am a complete novice when it comes to car maintenance but im willing to have a go, this afternoon i had to jack the car up on my brand spanking new trolley jack,
guess where i put it, heres a clue, drip drip drip

on the sump nooooooooooooooo

you didn't !?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Sump? oops

could be even better, fuel tank?

Oops! I guess it's a little late to show you this:

jmc330i wrote:

on the sump chaps , i struck oil

Watch out, Those merkins will invade your drive shortly

Well done for admiting to a c**k up!! Have you now?

d6dph wrote:Oops! I guess it's a little late to show you this:

jmc330i wrote:

...remembering of course that jacking from the diff or rear beam centre is a bad idea, unless you're actually trying to screw the beam mounting and diff mount bushes!
i use a trolley jack on the plates over the beam bushes themselves as it can't slip off due to the stud sitting in the cup on the jack (if it has one).

that said, jacking from the sump is really really silly and is best avoided!!!!

daimlerman wrote:Well done for admiting to a c**k up!! Have you now?

yes mate, i found it funny at the time, im not afraid to own up if i make mistakes
im gonna try some welding next week, honest

dude is you a 6 or 4 pot?

Never mind mate, shit happens

delphincabby wrote:dude is you a 6 or 4 pot?

six pot mate

then i even managed to drop a socket wrench in the bucket of oil, what a day

sorry fella not got one of those and there a crap job to do as well, either lift engine or drop subframe, not really a job for the novice,

don't be so defeatist! it's doable, just a fiddly arse of a job! everyone has to learn these thing somehow!
we'll all be here to help / laugh at your expense!!!!

spook wrote:

daimlerman wrote:Well done for admiting to a c**k up!! Have you now?

yes mate, i found it funny at the time, im not afraid to own up if i make mistakes
im gonna try some welding next week, honest

May be an idea to warn the fire brigade....or buy an extingwisher thingy....

ahaa, the death of my second e30 was due to me welding it and it catching light! whoops!

lol

gareth wrote:ahaa, the death of my second e30 was due to me welding it and it catching light! whoops!

i better not laugh at that gareth
cmon lads own up to cock ups of epic proportions

I can't say i've had too many, none that I can recall anyway, not because i'm a wizz around my E30, it's just I don't trust myself lol

Tried MIG welding using the back wheel nuts as an earth once, and melted the handbrake cable

i once tried fitting a sound system, head unit, amps etc, when i finally turned it on there was a loud bang some smoke then flames and after about 40mins, no car.

it was a ford orion, so a silver lining to every dark cloud.

dont do electrics anymore

more tales of woe, excellent

makes me feel better

stevotheevo wrote:i once tried fitting a sound system, head unit, amps etc, when i finally turned it on there was a loud bang some smoke then flames and after about 40mins, no car.

it was a ford orion, so a silver lining to every dark cloud.

dont do electrics anymore

SK360 wrote:

stevotheevo wrote:i once tried fitting a sound system, head unit, amps etc, when i finally turned it on there was a loud bang some smoke then flames and after about 40mins, no car.

it was a ford orion, so a silver lining to every dark cloud.

dont do electrics anymore

it was 15 years ago, no camera phones then fella.

lol, too bad ey. Come to think of it, I was trying to sort out the Fuel Gauge on my clocks, some how managed to plug in one of the plug adapter things into the clocks the wrong way round, turned key in the ignition to test the clocks to see if they worked, ended with A smoke filled cluster, definately not an OEM spec option lol.

this threads turning out to be quite interesting

spook wrote:on the sump chaps , i struck oil

oh dear oh dear......

When I was dismantling my rear bumper on my new tech1 the other day I got fecked off and had to bash the nuts/bolts off. In my moment of fury I accidentally took 2 huge chips out of my rear skirt

Make you feel any better spook?

Well at least it wasn't a 'jacking point' you would of seen day light from in the car.

If it makes you feel any better, I've seen someone at college bend a wishbone after jacking up on one

the jacking point was creaking max when i tried to jack the car up with the ordinary wheel jack

the jacking point is now on the floor of the garage, rusted to fxxk

pics tomorrow

a top day indeed

defeat at preston tomorrow and im moving to bridgend