davintosh wrote:Got back from Sandy Eggo on Sunday night and the X5 wouldn't start; had to jump start it yesterday morning with the e28.
New battery for the X5.
Spent some time trying in vain to get the water pump out of my daughter's 318ti. Trying; the bastard is still in there.
Finally feeling nearly normal after last week's chemo treatment, so finally got around to working on the ti again. Got the pump out over the weekend -- used a two-arm puller, a Wonder Bar and a 6" roll core to get it out. The core (think a toilet paper tube, only bigger ID and thicker walls) worked well to keep stress on any one section of the timing cover to a minimum, and with the bar formed a bridge over the pump for the puller to brace against. Put some tension on it, paused to take a peek to see if it was making progress, and POP! out it came, along with about a half-gallon of antifreeze. Good thing I already had a good coating of floor dry down.
Then last night my son and I tore into that project with a vengeance, hoping to get it done for my daughter this weekend (she's been doing an internship at a hospital about 2 hours north, and has my e32. I want my car back.
) Pulled the intake manifold to gain access to the plastic tube mounted to the block under it, then swapped out all of the hoses that were buried under there. Two other pains in the ass in that job; removing three wires from the starter (so that the wire harness that threads through the middle of the lower intake manifold can come out
), and removing/installing the little plastic gooseneck that mounts to the back of the cylinder head. There's about three inches of space between the head and the firewall, with the engine wire harness and some other stuff arching over the back of the head; you can barely see any of it. We decided to wait for my daughter to show up tonight to help get the bolts in on that one; her hands are about half the size of mine or my son's.
Whoever it was that thought plastic in the cooling system was a good idea ought to be shot.
