[uucdigest] Wednesday, March 8 2000 Volume 03 : Number 403 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | For all available Digest commands including unsubscribe/subscribe, | visit the BMW UUC Digest page: http://www.uucdigest.com | Send SUBMISSIONS to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Complaints? Send 'em to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you must. | Visit http://www.bubbaclub.com | www.bimmers.com - "serving enthusiasts on the 'net" | Visit http://www.bimmer.org - ultimate BMW bulletin boards! | Subscribe to the Zionsville Autosport Parts Digest: | http://www.zionsvilleautosport.com/majordomo.htm ����������������������������������������� In this BMW UUC Digest: RE: [uuc] E36 M3 Blind Mice [uuc] Re: (Little) Rats ate my car! Re: [uuc] You Know You Are a Bimmerhead When.... RE: [uuc] <E28> Gassin' Up [uuc] RE: You Know You Are a Bimmerhead When.... [uuc] lagoon output RE: [uuc] RE: You Know You Are a Bimmerhead When.... Re: [uuc] RE: You Know You Are a Bimmerhead When.... [uuc] <WOB> Help in Rockville Maryland [uuc] You know you're a Bimmerhead if.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 23:38:22 -0600 From: Mark Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] E36 M3 Blind Mice Al wrote.... >MY M3 HAS MICE!!!! >Damnation. Cleaned it up and went over everything under the hood. Mice >like to eat insulation off of wires too. No obvious wire chewing. Short >of placing a ///Mouse trap under the hood, I am clueless. I am thinking of >just ripping the whole insulation thing out. It looks awful. I know, I'll >put a cat under the hood..... If there is damage done to your wiring etc, the damage is a covered loss under your auto insurance as a comprehensive claim, subject of course to whatever comprehensive deductible you carry... Mark Williams Dallas, TX 91 ///M3 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 00:54:23 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] Re: (Little) Rats ate my car! In a message dated 3/7/00 7:14:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Well, I pop the hood to show them and one guy says "What the hell is that???". There is a mountain of little chewed up foam bits sitting right on top of the radiator shroud near the hood latch. I look up at the underside of the hood and sure enough, like a 1-foot square area of sound insulation material is chewed away, clear to the paint. >> Albert, The little buggers got my windshield washer tank cap and o2 sensor wires the other day. A couple years ago, a friend and I pulled his old homemade car hauler trailer out of the woods to check it over before using it the next day. Found a few wires chewed up a little here and there, and since the wiring was already kind of "ratty," we rewired the whole thing. The next morning, bright and early, we hooked up the trailer only to find that ALL THE INSULATION ON THE BRAND NEW RED WIRES WAS EATEN OFF. The black, green and yellow wires were untouched. Like dummies, we replaced the red wire again with more red wire... Bob Chapman '89 325ic '87 L7 (Shaft) with new hood insulation, sure glad it's not RED! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 01:02:40 -0500 From: Phil Marx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] You Know You Are a Bimmerhead When.... If you insist. - -Phil Marx ///M-Isetta 300, ///M-700S Cabriolet, ///M-R27, ///M-R60/5, ///M-R69US, ///M-R100CS >On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 21:03:57 Pat Donahue wrote: >Subject: Re: [uuc] You Know You Are a Bimmerhead When.... > >I dunno, one cylinder <=> one throttle body. Works for me. > >Geeeze ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 01:08:29 -0500 From: "Cagann, Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] <E28> Gassin' Up >I filled the tank on my new-to-me E28 M5 today and had a bit of a mess. >I didn't overfill it. I just let the pump shut off when it was done. Once >the car was parked in my garage a couple of mile away, it started >dripping >unleaded premium at a pretty good clip. Luckily, my wife was in the yard >so I didn't just run into the house and close the garage door. Well, although it is well known for E28 fuel tanks to rust at the filler neck, my 88///M5 had this very symptom and it was NOT the filler neck. It was one of the three fuel lines running from the tank. There was no hole or visual sign of a problematic line so I thoroughly washed the area (the filler neck, all the lines, etc.) You will first need to remove the rubber insert that "sits" in the area. After cleaning, I started the engine and saw a line "sweating" pretty badly. Replaced the line...wala. Right after I fixed that, another line in the engine compartment gave gas smells. With help from the esteemed list, a quick tightening of the band clamp solved that fuel issue as well. Alex Cagann 88///M5 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 00:46:40 -0600 From: "William States" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] RE: You Know You Are a Bimmerhead When.... You're checking out the E46 coupe at the stoplight when your buddy points out the attractive blonde driving it becasue you were checking out the lines of the Bimmer instead. <standing up> Hi, my name is William and I have a Bimmer problem........... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 23:15:10 -0800 (PST) From: John Bolhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] lagoon output All this lagoon talk reminds me of a short story: A local farmer had a lagoon for the effluent from his livestock operation. Step 1 in lagoon processing was a long gizmo with a propellor on the end that hooked to a tractor PTO. This would stir up the contents of the lagoon. Step 2 involved a tractor-powered pump that pushed the lagoon contents into a really large sprinkler (I'm not kiddin') that propelled itself across a field, sprinkling the nitrogen-rich bounty across the land. One day, the sprinkler made it waaay downfield before running out of hose or effluent. Nobody probably figured it could make it almost 1/4 mile! Anyway, it coated a couple hundred feet of Riley St. with an inch thick coating of nitrogen rich material that one might describe as "slicker than sh*t," except that it was really only exactly as slick as sh*t. My cousin had recently purchased a very fine example of a somewhat classic car, (see, this relates to cars) and was NOT very happy to have to cross a sea of sh*t to get home. The road was stained brown for weeks. heh. lagoon brown. - -- John Bolhuis | "In America it is not considered to be mentally ill bolhuijo | when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque @bolhuijo.com | setting with hardy cocktails present." | -Madonna ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 02:25:49 -0500 From: "Cagann, Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] RE: You Know You Are a Bimmerhead When.... <standing up> Hi, my name is William and I have a Bimmer problem........... - ------------ and then... <group> We love you William. Alex Cagann 88///M5 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 02:36:46 EST From: "Steven Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] RE: You Know You Are a Bimmerhead When.... William thought he had to worry when he said: >You're checking out the E46 coupe at the stoplight when your buddy >points >out the attractive blonde driving it becasue you were checking out the >lines >of the Bimmer instead. > ><standing up> >Hi, my name is William and I have a Bimmer problem........... > > It's one thing to notice the attractive blonde and pay her no head to look at the car. It's another to never notice the driver. I, sad to say in my 16 year old hormone over-ridden state, notice the driver and don't care. Oh yea I'm also up at 1:30am reading the digest. I need help. Steve ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 23:51:13 -0800 From: "jpropane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] <WOB> Help in Rockville Maryland Fellow digester requires help in performing inspection of a salvage BMW in order to assess damage of a crashed vehicle. The vehicle is located in Rockville, Maryland and has been rolled. I am looking to purchase it, either to fix it or to use the drivetrain in my next project car. Prior experience in assessing severity of damage and repair work/replacement/missing parts required would be useful. Digital camera access could also help. Thanks in advance for the help! [EMAIL PROTECTED] J Propane All the way up there in Canada ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 02:57:28 -0500 From: "Cagann, Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] You know you're a Bimmerhead if.... You have two BMW steering wheels hanging in your bedroom. :-) Alex Cagann Indianapolis, IN 88///M5 ------------------------------ End of [uucdigest] V3 #403 ************************** _________________________________________ | Please visit these UUC-approved BMW parts vendors/service providers: | (listed alphabetically) | Bonneville Motorwerks . http://www.bonnevillemotorwerks.com | Circle Tire Co. 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