[uucdigest] Wednesday, February 19 2003 Volume 03 : Number 6121
_________________________________________________________________ | | Search the ARCHIVES: | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] | | Visit Richard Nott's Ultimate BMW Database: | http://www.bmwdatabase.com | | 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: [uuc] Re: Who Wanted Brett on Junkyard Wars? Re: [uuc] Re: Who Wanted Brett on Junkyard Wars? [uuc] Who Wanted Brett on Junkyard Wars? [uuc] e30 325is with a Chevy 454 [uuc] How do you test an ABS sensor on an e28? Re: [uuc] Re: Who Wanted Brett on Junkyard Wars? [uuc] <E28> Found the Culprit it seems.. Re Stalling Rough Idle Ongoing issue [uuc] Brake Fluid [uuc] Who Wanted Brett on Junkyard Wars? Re: [uuc] Re: Who Wanted Brett on Junkyard Wars? [uuc] Re: Who Wanted Brett on Junkyard Wars? [uuc] Brake Fluid RE: [uuc] Brake Fluid ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:12:12 -0800 (PST) From: John Bolhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Re: Who Wanted Brett on Junkyard Wars? On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, KMS - Brett Anderson wrote: > And I find the time for this, umm, where? Sorry, your opinion doesn't count. Your fans demand it. and sheez, it's only 10 hours. :) :) - -- "It is an honor to be Cookie Monster." -Sesame Street spokeswoman Audrey Shapiro ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 05:57:22 -0500 From: "RAGS 535" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Re: Who Wanted Brett on Junkyard Wars? NO NO NO!! Not junkyard wars; MONSTER GARAGE!! I'd love to see him with Jesse James! RA/Bob G. >From: John Bolhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [uuc] Re: Who Wanted Brett on Junkyard Wars? >Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:12:12 -0800 (PST) > >On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, KMS - Brett Anderson wrote: > > > And I find the time for this, umm, where? > >Sorry, your opinion doesn't count. Your fans demand it. >and sheez, it's only 10 hours. :) :) > >-- > "It is an honor to be Cookie Monster." > -Sesame Street spokeswoman Audrey Shapiro > _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:35:11 -0500 From: "Dorffer, Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Who Wanted Brett on Junkyard Wars? From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So now that we have a connection, just how badly do we want Brett on the > show? Seems like we could ask my friend's wife to pull a few strings with > her cousin, no? Brett complains > > And I find the time for this, umm, where? Ahhh, stop your whining you wanker. I have a call into Discovery and Jesse James to get you on Monster Garage too. Winners get a very nice Mac tool box full of tools. I have yet to see a team lose and not walk away with the tools and I have seen your garage before....I know that your tools have a way of occasionally disappearing so another set in reserve would never be a bad thing. Later, Rich ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:08:30 -0500 From: "Dorffer, Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] e30 325is with a Chevy 454 Rob says > > Key-ryst, Evan, haven't you heard of problems with fiberglass changing shape > when it cures? Cadillac Converters does okay but not great work. Whaddya > want for $6K including paint? Wow, $6k including paint. That is quite a deal. God forbid if I ever need some work on my cars done, I'll have to look up "Cadillac Converters". If I was going to all that trouble though as your conversion did, I would have tried to find a way to eliminate that pesky fuel filler door. Don't they call this "frenching". Most be a slang term akin to 'disappearing' or 'running away' or something like that. > This thing is genuine. I've driven it around with one arm out the window > and the other wrist through the steering wheel. It did break down on me, so > I pressed the OnStar button and got help right away. Were you wearing a large gold chain on that wrist? If you were, be careful not to scratch the paint. Otherwise, you'll be heading back to that bodyshop again. Does the car have hydraulics? Later, Rich 95 M3 - no tail fins here....yet....but seriously want to upgrade to UUC's new lightweight flywheel and M5 clutch package! 90 325is ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:06:42 +0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] How do you test an ABS sensor on an e28? One of my sensors went south I believe (who can blame em). What kind of signal do these sensors output, and can I check it with a good multimeter, or do I need a scope? -Sheldon 88 M5, ABS-less in the snow and ice of MN ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 05:57:22 -0500 From: "RAGS 535" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Re: Who Wanted Brett on Junkyard Wars? NO NO NO!! Not junkyard wars; MONSTER GARAGE!! I'd love to see him with Jesse James! RA/Bob G. >From: John Bolhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [uuc] Re: Who Wanted Brett on Junkyard Wars? >Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:12:12 -0800 (PST) > >On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, KMS - Brett Anderson wrote: > > > And I find the time for this, umm, where? > >Sorry, your opinion doesn't count. Your fans demand it. >and sheez, it's only 10 hours. :) :) > >-- > "It is an honor to be Cookie Monster." > -Sesame Street spokeswoman Audrey Shapiro > _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:01:29 -0500 From: "Ron J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] <E28> Found the Culprit it seems.. Re Stalling Rough Idle Ongoing issue Hi All, I have written a few posts about my 85 535i, and rough idle, loss of power, and issues related to it, when driving back from Florida to Toronto. Well yesterday it all came to a head. I was on my way to a meeting in the morning, and the car started to idle roughly, and would lose power unless I had the gas pedal pushed all the way down. While driving, the car would surge up to 5000 rpm, the tires would spin and the car would start to move normally, and then as soon as the rpms would settle down, the engine would stumble, almost stall, and repeat the cycle again. I was driving down the road, with my 4 ways looking like someone that doenst know how to drive standard. Then all of a sudden I lost brake pedal pressure, and had no brakes, but they came back, and the car started to behave properly. . Then someone in a car beside me started honking for me to pull over, when I rolled my window down, they told me I had a fire under the car. I quickly pulled over and looked underneath, and saw some flames, and put them out with my fire extinguisher I keep behind my seat. After I looked at where the fire was, I noticed it was a rubber hangar from the exhaust system. I parked the car, jumped in a cab and went to the meeting. While at the meeting I had the car towed over to a mechanic that I know. I left the meeting and borrowed a freinds car (beauty 99 mercedes E320) and drove over to the mechanics, just as the car was being pulled in. They put the car on the hoist, and lifted it up, and we inspected the underside, and noticed that the hanger that caught on fire was right near the gas/brake lines, on the drivers side of the car, under the rear seat. That made us realize that the fire had boiled the brake fluid, causing the brakes to go, so we bled the brakes, and they were back to normal. Then we started to look into why the exhaust got hot enough to cause the hangar to catch on fire. It was most likely a lean condition in the engine. So we popped the hood and started the car, and it ran fine, and then started to stumble for a brief amount, and then evened out. I explained that I had changed the ICV, and the FPR due to past problems similar to this problem.. We then hooked up a feul pressure guage to the input feul line, and started the car. It showed that the car was running with 30 PSI. Then thier Mitchell computer program for the the proper specs, and found that it should be running at 42 psi, with specific volume that I cant remember. We went back to the car. and checked the guage again. It was still at 30 psi and the engine was running fine. My Mechanic friend advised me that the car wasnt getting enough feul, and was therefore running lean, which was heating up the exhaust, which in turn was causing the feul in the same spot to boil, and causing cavitation in the feul line, which was causing the stumbling issues. The only issue was why the PSI was at 30 instead of 42. We started to think feul pump, clogged filter. The filter medium is so big, that we doubted it was the culprit, so the next possibility was the pump. Then he decided to call another BMW mechanic, to talk to him on the phone and explained the situation, and he said to try the Feul Pressure Regulator. (the one I had replaced) So we went over and used a pair of vice grips to pinch the bigger line that comes out of the FPR and it made the feul pressure guage jump to 115 PSI. It pointed right to the FPR as faulty. the next thing was to remove the small vacuum line from the top of the FPR, and when we did the pressure came up to 40 PSI. So based on his explanation it is the FPR, its not opening operating prolerly possibly due to a ruptured inner diaphragm, or maybe even the wrong calibration. Which caused the whole loop problem. car ran fine cold, but when hot, due to lean condition, it would heat up the exhaust, that would boil the feul line, and cause cavitation, and as soon as the car would cool it would go away. makes sense since the condition only happened when I was on a long drive, or stuck in traffic doing the stop and go. So now I have to go the dealer and get another FPR $170 CAD, or $110.00 USD, and I have a faulty one that I ordered from thepartsbin.com, that almost burned my car to the ground. Hopefully they will refund my money, and if they don;t I will reverse the charges on my Credit Card bill. I guess the warnings regarding getting parts directly to the dealer should sometimes be given creedence, especially regarding feul injection parts. The faulty one was made by bosch and all, and just to save a couple of bucks, I ordered it from an online company, which I understand gets thier parts from World Pac. So off to the dealer to get the new FPR.... Then on tuesday I change my feul filter just to be on the safe side. (too cold and snowy to do it here, so its getting done at my mechanic friends, along with a valve adjustment) Cheers Ron J 85 535i 73 911s 2.7 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 06:14:09 -0600 (CST) From: "Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Brake Fluid Been running this for years. No problems (but no experience on a track either). Flushes reasonably clear after a few years. - --- original message --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] Brake Fluid Has anyone tried this brake fluid? http://www.valvoline.com/pages/products/product_detail.asp?product=51 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:35:11 -0500 From: "Dorffer, Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Who Wanted Brett on Junkyard Wars? From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So now that we have a connection, just how badly do we want Brett on the > show? Seems like we could ask my friend's wife to pull a few strings with > her cousin, no? Brett complains > > And I find the time for this, umm, where? Ahhh, stop your whining you wanker. I have a call into Discovery and Jesse James to get you on Monster Garage too. Winners get a very nice Mac tool box full of tools. I have yet to see a team lose and not walk away with the tools and I have seen your garage before....I know that your tools have a way of occasionally disappearing so another set in reserve would never be a bad thing. Later, Rich ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:49:41 -0500 From: "Pat Donahue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Re: Who Wanted Brett on Junkyard Wars? Yeah but how would Jesse feel about being called "Bloody Wanker" for the umpteenth time? Geeeze From: "RAGS 535" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > NO NO NO!! > Not junkyard wars; MONSTER GARAGE!! I'd love to see him with Jesse > James! > > RA/Bob G. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:56:06 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] Re: Who Wanted Brett on Junkyard Wars? That's the price you pay for fame and fortune, Brett, Project XYZWhatever will have to wait for a couple of extra days. Scott Miller GGC BMW CCA >Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:44:42 -0500 >From: "KMS - Brett Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [uuc] Who Wanted Brett on Junkyard Wars? > >And I find the time for this, umm, where? > >;-) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 06:14:09 -0600 (CST) From: "Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Brake Fluid Been running this for years. No problems (but no experience on a track either). Flushes reasonably clear after a few years. - --- original message --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] Brake Fluid Has anyone tried this brake fluid? http://www.valvoline.com/pages/products/product_detail.asp?product=51 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:17:11 -0800 From: "KKiely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] Brake Fluid Scott, I've been using the Valvoline Synthetic fluid for about 2 years now.... no probs. You can find it at Pep Boys, Kragen, etc. - -Kevin ------------------------------ End of [uucdigest] V3 #6121 *************************** | | In memory of Michel Potheau - friend, enthusiast, founder of the BMW CCA. |________________________________________ | Please visit these UUC-approved BMW parts vendors/service providers: | (listed alphabetically) | | Autoscope-Motorsports - http://www.autoscope-motorsports.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 |__________________________________________
