Another e36 - My 328 Beauty (SOLD)
I'm sure the showroom isn't the right place to chronicle my endeavours with my new-to-me e36 328i so I'm going to dump my load in this thread instead.
I have no grand plans for this, it was cheap and in pretty average condition but it's a good (enough) base for a point-to-point daily driver for me. I was originally thinking of a 318 for cost reasons but when this 6 cylinder popped up for a couple of grand I couldn't say no even though I knew it would need another thousand or so (hopefully n
Got the bitch. Took another 2 hours and a visit to the local engineering shop.
Got the guys to chop the end off a sacrificial 8mm 12 point spanner (it's an external Torx (six point) bolt - 6x2=12) and chop up a piece of steel tube and crimp the end for a tight fit. It was my last idea really. Only had about 1 degree of rotation to crack it but after a few tries I heard that reassuring break. Still took another 10 mins to wind it out, used a tiny ratchet to do that 1 click at a time...