[uucdigest] Wednesday, July 4 2001 Volume 03 : Number 3967 _________________________________________________________________ | | Search the ARCHIVES: | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] | | Visit Richard Nott's Ultimate BMW Database: | http://www.gis.nsw.gov.au/staff/rnott/bmw/bmw.html | | 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. | Technical Problems? Send 'em to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |__________________________________________________________________ In this BMW UUC Digest: Re: [uuc] '86 325 Steering Problem [Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Re: [uuc] <E30> Half shaft separation [Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [uuc] Trailer Hitches for BMW's ["Mike Holbrook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Re: [uuc] Gorgeous 1998 M3 for sale! [Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] 87 535is auto flush [Neil Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] :<ADMIN> If you stopped receiving the UUC Digest... [Neil Deshpande] [uuc] '86 325 Steering Problem [Neil Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] <E30> Half shaft separation [Neil Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [uuc] Re: BMW X5...3.0 or 4.4? [Neil Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] Alpina V8 engine FS [Neil Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] Changing to Synthetic [Donn and Sally York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Re: [uuc] Re: BMW X5...3.0 or 4.4? [Ed MacVaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] Tire dia vs. gearing? Gearing vs. acceleration? ["Rob" <motor@cadv] [uuc] <e30> obc light replacement [Neil Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]] RE: [uuc] Tire dia vs. gearing? Gearing vs. acceleration? ["Karl Zemlin"] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 19:45:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] '86 325 Steering Problem Ryan wrote: >>Woa! Deja Vu Yeah that's what I said! Oh wait d'ffrnt subject.. ;-) >>Only the steering doesn't return at all...you have to manually return >>it to center. Upper strut bearing. Either someone assembled it incorrectly or the fookin thing is shot or needs lube (back to that Deja Vu thing). Now wait for Brett to give you the correct answer. Carlos 91 M3 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 19:51:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] <E30> Half shaft separation K.C. Boyce wrote: >Now, the weird thing is that everything was in good condition. The >bolts hadn't sheared at all, nor did anything look amiss. I bolted it >all up today, and it seems to be in good working order. I'd look into safety wiring those bolts together, or else... >>(Geoff >>Patterson can back me up on this, right, Geoff Yeah OK sure, uh-huh. :-) Carlos 91 M3 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 19:55:48 -0700 From: "Mike Holbrook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Trailer Hitches for BMW's Subject: Re: [uuc] Trailer Hitches - E39 prices.. Jeez you guys! You're getting hosed. I had a custom hitch made for my Porsche. It was a beautiful work of art, entirely removable, even including a separate holder for my license plate, hand fabbed by the hotshot in town who does custom trailers for racing teams and such. Total including wiring the car with a converter, was $400. - - -Damon '95 993 '94 325i ***NOTE ON TRAILER HITCHES*** Yes, of course you could get it cheaper, but would it be TUV approved and come with a certificate attesting to same?? What self-respecting Bimmerphyle could possibly have a "homebuilt" trailer hitch. Is there a roof-mount hitch to pull a fifth wheel available? Not that I have one, but you never know. Mike Holbrook 94 530i P.S. I'm also interested in hardwiring my old Passport into my E34. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 19:53:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Gorgeous 1998 M3 for sale! >>Gorgeous 1998 BMW M3 for sale. >>o New 18" 255.45.18 front tires (goodyear ultra high performance) >>o New 18" 225.45.18 rear tires (goodyear ultra high performance) Sweet! Is that to get rid of that pesky E36 M3 understeer?? :) Carlos 91 M3 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 20:41:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Neil Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] 87 535is auto flush Joseph: You can read of my experience at http://www.neilwerke.com. Look under E34 Work. Neil Deshpande http://www.neilwerke.com *** "Joseph Volpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I wanna flush my transmission (1987 535is automatic) with synthetic so it's all synthetic in it. How many qts do I need to do it? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 20:43:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Neil Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] :<ADMIN> If you stopped receiving the UUC Digest... Michel: A teaser! A re-routing service like iname perhaps? Neil Deshpande http://www.neilwerke.com *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] I stopped receiving the Digest too. So, I un*scribed and s*bscribed again. I didn't have to fool AOL. I had to fool the UUC Server and it wasn't very hard to do so. Michel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 20:47:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Neil Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] '86 325 Steering Problem Carey: Did you do any suspension work on the car? It is possible to install the front strut washers incorrectly such that the self-centering action meets just enough additional friction to feel that way. If the action is not symmetrical, it could be the rack was not centered during alignment. MIT? Always wanted to go there. Tough to get financial aid though. Maybe for my next degree! Neil Deshpande http://www.neilwerke.com *** "Carey Probst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I jam having w/ my '86 325e. When i turn the steering wheel, it feels as if the power steering is not functioning correctly and when i release the wheel to let it return to the center, it returns only partially on it's own and the last 1/2 turn has to be done physically. It hasn't done that before and just showed up in the last day or so. I checked the power steering fluid and it's full. Any thoughts on what it could be? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 20:51:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Neil Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] <E30> Half shaft separation KC: Due to the handedness of the bolt and the rotation of the shaft being differently related on the two sides the driver's side will have a greater tendency to come off than the passenger side. Unless you drive primarily in reverse, that is, in which case the other side will come off instead! Use Loctite or, if you're like Bob Goppold, safety wire the bolt heads. Someone mentioned that some Chrysler car actually had left handed-bolts on the driver's side to prevent this. Some strange vibration, KC? You call that a theory! LOL! Neil Deshpande http://www.neilwerke.com P.S. I like your quoted sound effects, BTW! *** "K.C. Boyce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A curious thing happened to me last night. Driving down the road, I heard a loud "clunk", followed by the sound of something dragging underneath my car. I pulled off to the side of the road, but didn't initially find anything dragging. Upon closer inspection, I noticed that the driver's side half shaft had completely separated from the differential output flange. All of the bolts appeared to be there (and they were, as I discovered today). Now, the weird thing is that everything was in good condition. The bolts hadn't sheared at all, nor did anything look amiss. I bolted it all up today, and it seems to be in good working order. Does anyone have any theories as to why this happened? I replaced my diff. about a year ago, but I torqued all the bolts to spec (Geoff Patterson can back me up on this, right, Geoff?). Additionally, the passenger side half shaft is as snug as ever. The closest I can come to figuring it, there was some sort of strange vibration that caused all the bolts to slowly back out. But whence came this vibration? I'll entertain any theories y'all might have, realistic or otherwise... :-) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 20:54:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Neil Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Re: BMW X5...3.0 or 4.4? John: Which is why I noticed the XTerra in the first place and a damn fine SUV it is! Go Nissan! They really do deserve that turn-around. Neil Deshpande - likes the X5 a lot, but likes the M5 Touring better and there are a couple for sale in the mid-30s! http://www.neilwerke.com *** John Stoj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I don't know whether I can do that, but I can give you five great reasons why the 3.0 is a great choice: it's called a BMW manual transmission. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 20:55:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Neil Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Alpina V8 engine FS James: Care to post any pictures? I'd really like to see them. Neil Deshpande http://www.neilwerke.com *** "James Clay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alpina turbocharged 4.0 V8 engine, complete with harness, computer, accessories, only about 20k miles, $7,300 delivered. Please call or email privately if interested. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 22:59:41 -0500 From: Donn and Sally York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Changing to Synthetic If you've followed my tale of woe, things are looking up, prompting a question. To summarize my situation, on the way back from Windsor, Ontario after picking up a '98 540/6, I hit road debris about 40 miles from home. Two air bags and a sheared transmission plug ($11000 in damages) later, Allstate has agreed to foot the bill for the new tranny and air bags. The BMW dealer that's doing the repairs has agreed to give me a free (but slightly early) Inspection II for bringing them $11k of work. So things are looking up. : ^ ) Here's the question: I'd like to use synthetic oil from now on in the car, but don't yet know what it has had in the first 28,000 miles of ownership. Hopefully, I will learn more about it's service history. If, however, prior oil is either dino or unknown, is it too late to safely switch to synthetic? I remember reading that if you switch after too long, the synthetic can create small oil leaks. Thanks, Donn '97 328i sedan w/31k for sale '98 540/6 due back from shop in about a week! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 00:19:50 -0400 From: Ed MacVaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Re: BMW X5...3.0 or 4.4? I like the way that Nissan uses the classic Land Rover colors like the Camel Trophy Yellow (really from the UK Automobile Association colour) and this year they have added the faded looking slate blue. Neil Deshpande wrote: > > John: > > Which is why I noticed the XTerra in the first place > and a damn fine SUV it is! Go Nissan! They really do > deserve that turn-around. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 22:38:16 -0600 From: "Rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Tire dia vs. gearing? Gearing vs. acceleration? Here is my question of the day. How much does overall tire diameter, and therefore gearing, affect acceleration?. I'm thinking of switching from a 235/40/17 (approx 24.4") to a 235/40/18 (approx 25.4") but I'm worried that it will kill my acceleration. Would this change be similar to changing from my stock 3.15 diff to a 2.93 or would the change not be nearly that great?. How can I calculate the gearing change?. TIA, Rob ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 21:56:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Neil Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] <e30> obc light replacement John: Care to detail the procedure? I'd like to do this on my 88 iS. I know there is a kind of 'fence' there when you take loose the console. Are you suggesting you cut through this? Is the exact wavelenght 509 nM? I'll have to check for that very carefully when I get my LEDs! Thanks! Neil Deshpande http://www.neilwerke.com *** John Bolhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Before attacking my burnt out lights in my OBC, I searched for solutions with Google. The best, and most direct were of course from Brett A. Hack-hack-hacking at the black plastic there with wire nippers was something that I probably wouldn't have thought to do on my own. I had a couple red LEDs soldered in there in place of the light bulbs in just a few minutes. Results? Just peachy. The LEDs are dimmable with the dash control, which was better than I expected. And as my friend was fond of saying, "LEDs have no intrinsic failure mechanism!" The exact wavelength of light projected may be a few nm off from standard, but if you're riding in my car and you mention that, I'll probably leave you by the side of the road to hitchhike for a ride in a "real" BMW. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 00:13:10 -0500 From: "Karl Zemlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] Tire dia vs. gearing? Gearing vs. acceleration? The circumference of a circle is pi*diameter, so it is directly proportional to the diameter. That makes the comparison of gearing to tire diameter differences a direct connection (3.15-2.93)/3.15 = .0698 (25.4-24.4)/24.4 = .0410 Changing tire diameters as you have spelled out will take you more than half way to the diff change you describe. 7% ratio increase with a diff change, 4.1% change with the tire size. - -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rob Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 11:38 PM To: BMW UUC Subject: [uuc] Tire dia vs. gearing? Gearing vs. acceleration? Here is my question of the day. How much does overall tire diameter, and therefore gearing, affect acceleration?. I'm thinking of switching from a 235/40/17 (approx 24.4") to a 235/40/18 (approx 25.4") but I'm worried that it will kill my acceleration. Would this change be similar to changing from my stock 3.15 diff to a 2.93 or would the change not be nearly that great?. How can I calculate the gearing change?. TIA, Rob ------------------------------ End of [uucdigest] V3 #3967 *************************** ________________________________________ | Please visit these UUC-approved BMW parts vendors/service providers: | (listed alphabetically) | Camptown Automotive - http://www.camptownauto.com | Circle Tire Co. (used & classic BMW parts) e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Detailwerks Chicago Inc. "Chicago's Premier Automotive Appearance | Center" . http://www.detailwerkschicago.com |==================================================== | Koala MotorSport . BMW technical information, special tool sales/rental | http://www.koalamotorsport.com |==================================================== | Taylor BMW - http://www.taylorbmw.com - Doc Bimmer! | UUC Motorwerks . http://www.uucmotorwerks.com |__________________________________________
