Ha! well I wouldn’t say that I am “working on it”, but I am doing something e9 related daily. I’m comfortable with my pace but the time has come to get serious.
Update 01/30/19:
I’m prepping to take apart my car. I need to start it up to get the frame meaurements checked and steam clean the under carriage. I had some interesting developments.
First off, I had a total bonehead moment that I can only attribute to lack of wrench time on the car. I wanted to roll the car out to start it and rotate it. I can’t star it in the garage when it is backed in. The car just wouldn’t roll. After realizing (some time later) that the parking brake was on, it still wouldn’t move. I was convinced that the drums were stuck. I indeed had to use a dead low to get the driver’s drum off. After cleaning everything up, ensuring that the shoes moved freely, I assembled the wheel. Still nothing. One hour later - doh I never took it out of first gear. What a waste of time! In my defense my interior is full of packing supplies.
I picked up a set of TRX’s. They hit the struts up front at 220mm wide on ET22 tires for $40. My last set of wheels for this car.
I haven’t spent much time in the driver’s side front well. The sheetmetal is surprisingly rust free. I wish I could say that it was clean, but I pulled a pound of sand out of the fender box. Oh my!
My pet snail Gary...
No this car wasn’t media blasted (yet)!
Fiddling with the rear brakes. I confirmed that without question, I need new outer and inner rockers. I pulled about another jar full of rusty metal out of the back end of the rocker.
The rear jack point is like a first grader’s loose
tooth.
Another crazy development. My CSI rear subframe a giant crack in the differential mount.
The interesting this subframe is “new”. It still has the orange BMW sticker on it. I don’t need to keep this part, but it took me by surprise.
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