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    1 hour ago, Johnnyl said:

    Any idea if the fire extinguisher bracket will bolt into an e46 m3's rails. 

    It will if the bolts that hold the rails down are at 415mm centres. The hold down tabs are 21mm wide and from memory they slotted inside the rails, as they have been chewed a little by the heads of the fixing bolts being tightened down on them. 

    Cheers...

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    *** ALL ITEMS NOW AVAILABLE INDIVIDUALLY***

    From tomorrow (Thursday 14th) all items are available for individual purchase at the price listed above. 

    On Sunday all unsold items will be listed individually on TradeMe at 10% higher price than shown in the above list. 

    Cheers...

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    *** ALL ITEMS NOW AVAILABLE INDIVIDUALLY***

    Have rounded up all the spares I was holding for my E92 and would like to sell as one lot. All items are new and unused with the exception of the scan tool. Items are located in Wellington. Pickup available or I will ship at buyers expense.  :) 

    *** CHECK LIST AT BOTTOM OF PAGE TO SEEWHAT IS STILL AVAILABLE ***

    Cheers...

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    Just replaced the oil filter housing gasket, oil cooler thermostat gasket, serpentine belt and bolts with new quality parts from FCPeuro. Oil change with Castrol Edge 5W-30 and new filter. Going in for fresh WOF on 07-08-23 and will have 12 months rego as soon as the WOF is issued. Has two key FOB's and I will be replacing the batteries on these as they seem to be forgetting their programming. 

    Car located in Wellington. 

    Cheers...

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    Managed to get the automated bleeding to run by hooking up my portable generator to a battery charger and boosting the battery while the water pump was doing its thing. Still managed to pull the battery pretty low so seems good advice to use a charger. Only needed about 200ml of coolant to top up the reservoir, so can't have been much air in the system. Test drove the car and it runs fine with no sign of any leaks. 

    Car will be for sale next week after I get a new WOF and new rego. Only done 93,XXX km and pretty tidy all round :) 

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    Wasted 20 minutes of my life trying to figure out how to get the wiring clip off the injector and gave it away. Can't understand why BM make everything so difficult ?? So I went and found the fusebox and removed the #70 fuse, no easy task either unless you are a midget contortionist. Gave the engine five bursts on the starter, replaced the fuse and started the engine. Sounded a bit like a couple of cylinders weren't too happy to begin with but settled after 20 seconds. Let it run for a bit and no sign of any oil or coolant leaks at this stage. 

    There are recommendations for using the BM "automated cooling system bleeding procedure", but is that strictly necessary ? I only dropped enough coolant to stop it running out of the top radiator hose when I disconnected it. So the pump and everything lower than the top hose would have stayed full of coolant. My battery is nearly flat so I am hoping that going for a gentle drive (heater maxed out) and checking/topping up the coolant (if required) multiple times would be enough to get any air out of the cooling system. Good or bad idea ?

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    I'm not an automotve designer or engineer, but I do wonder why anyone would build a car where it is necessary to remove the intercooler to access the radiator drain plug ??? The only reason I can think of is that there is so much crap packed into the limited space in front of the engine, that they could not find room for a plug in an accessible spot. 

    Then there is the wonderful top radiator hose with its oh-so-easy to break overflow hose spigot, and the quick connect coupling o-ring that swells up and pops out and cannot be re-used. Of course the dealership doesn't sell the o-ring, you are expected to buy a complete new hose assembly. Luckily a suitable o-ring can be bought for a couple of bucks from your local industrial seal supplier. Size 46 x 4 apparently. 

    Looks like the oil was coming from the designed to fail oil filter assembly. Hopefully replacing the base and oil thermostat seals will cure that. The belt was so well greased with oil and dirt that I am surprised to was able to squeak :)  Cleaned and checked the tensioner and idler pulleys and they look to be OK for further use, so hopefully with a new belt fitted I will be good to go. 

    To be continued....

  21. Posted · Edited by jon dee
    Guessed size wrong... fixed it now     · Report reply

    Long shot, but by any chance does anyone have the dimensions for the O-Ring that goes inside the oil filter housing end of the the top radiator hose on a 335i (N54) ?? It's the one that swells up and pops out when you disconnect the hose. By rough measurement it will be something like 46 x 38. Better still, if anyone around Wellington has one surplus I would be happy to buy it :)

     

    Cheers...

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    14 hours ago, gofaster said:

    a bird in your engine bay that scarpered when you drove off?

    Nice try, but I had a quick look and I can see a bit of oil getting sprayed around front passenger side of the engine. Probably an oil leak dropping oil on the belt. Understand this is not unusual for these engines, so I will dig into this when I get my other car fixed up to pass WOF re-check. Fkn cars :(

     

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