The BMW UUC Digest Volume 3 : Issue 382 : "text" Format Messages in this Issue: Re: E36 ignition - switch or cylinder? Re: E36 ignition - switch or cylinder? Re: E36 ignition - switch or cylinder? Re: E36 ignition - switch or cylinder? Re: E36 ignition - switch or cylinder? Re: E36 ignition - switch or cylinder? Time for the pickup truck to go. 530iP anyone? UUC] Time for the pickup truck to go. 530iP anyone <E36> Coolant Leak Re: <E36> Coolant Leak Re: <E36> Coolant Leak <E36> Coolant Leak
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:26:47 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: E36 ignition - switch or cylinder? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yeah, if more people left California like he did, things wouldn't be so crowded here. Oh wait, that isn't what you meant, is it? :^) Plus, I'd rather it be other people leaving and not people like John. Oh, never mind. Scott Miller GGC BMW CCA >Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:41:10 -0600 >From: "Paul Garnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'John Bolhuis'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: E36 ignition - switch or cylinder? >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hooray for people like John!! > >Paul A. Garnier >Houston, TX ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:19:24 -0800 From: John Bolhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: E36 ignition - switch or cylinder? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:26:47AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yeah, if more people left California like he did, things wouldn't be so > crowded here. Oh wait, that isn't what you meant, is it? :^) Plus, > I'd rather it be other people leaving and not people like John. Oh, never > mind. ha ha, yeah, I miss Scott too. Michigan is pretty snowy right now, so I'm still driving sideways a lot (much like my autocross runs). But now I'm in an AWD Subaru Forester, a whole lot less stylish than the E30 ragtop. (BTW, if anyone ever tries to sell you Yokohama Geolandar G900 all-seasons and tells you they'll be fine in the snow, they're lying. "FUN" in the snow, not "FINE" in the snow. ) I put real snowflake tires on the wife's 528 (Dunlop Winter Sport M3) and it seems very sure-footed. Even the ignition has better traction now that I replaced the cylinder! anyway... thanks for the compliments on the pics. Sorry they are so huge - I sized them on my laptop screen, which has a bajillion-by-kerjillion screen resolution, so they didn't look so big at first. Hey at least I compressed them down so the file size isn't too huge. :) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:21:33 -0500 From: "Jack - Elephant Motorsports" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: E36 ignition - switch or cylinder? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Whoa, wait a minute....bolhuijo is in MI?!?!!? Dude, where are you at? When did this happen? I'm out of it apparently.... Jack Money > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Bolhuis > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 5:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [UUC] E36 ignition - switch or cylinder? > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:26:47AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Yeah, if more people left California like he did, things > wouldn't be so > > crowded here. Oh wait, that isn't what you meant, is it? > :^) Plus, > > I'd rather it be other people leaving and not people like > John. Oh, > > never mind. > > ha ha, yeah, I miss Scott too. > > Michigan is pretty snowy right now, so I'm still driving > sideways a lot (much like my autocross runs). But now I'm in > an AWD Subaru Forester, a whole lot less stylish than the E30 > ragtop. (BTW, if anyone ever tries to sell you Yokohama > Geolandar G900 all-seasons and tells you they'll be fine in > the snow, they're lying. "FUN" in the snow, not "FINE" in > the snow. ) I put real snowflake tires on the wife's 528 > (Dunlop Winter Sport M3) and it seems very sure-footed. Even > the ignition has better traction now that I replaced the cylinder! > > anyway... thanks for the compliments on the pics. Sorry > they are so huge - I sized them on my laptop screen, which > has a bajillion-by-kerjillion screen resolution, so they > didn't look so big at first. Hey at least I compressed them > down so the file size isn't too huge. :) > > > Search the > ARCHIVES:http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > > ______________________________________________________________ > ____________ > In memory of Michel Potheau - friend, enthusiast, founder of > the BMW CCA. > > UUC Motorwerks - BMW Performance Fine-tuning and home of the > Ultimate Short Shifter - accept no substitutes! > 908-874-9092 . http://www.uucmotorwerks.com > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.15/659 - Release > Date: 1/30/2007 9:31 AM > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:23:11 -0800 From: John Bolhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: E36 ignition - switch or cylinder? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:21:33PM -0500, Jack - Elephant Motorsports wrote: > Whoa, wait a minute....bolhuijo is in MI?!?!!? Dude, where are you at? > When did this happen? I'm out of it apparently.... Moved from CA to MI late 2005, family is here, and we can slow down enough for me to quit work and go back to school to pursue my mechanical engineering degree at WMU. We live in "yes there really is a" Kalamazoo. (Posted to the list in case anybody else's bolhuijo-locater was out of kilter) :) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:29:00 -0800 From: Mark Dadgar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: E36 ignition - switch or cylinder? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Jan 30, 2007, at 5:23 PM, John Bolhuis wrote: >> Whoa, wait a minute....bolhuijo is in MI?!?!!? Dude, where are >> you at? >> When did this happen? I'm out of it apparently.... > > Moved from CA to MI late 2005, family is here, and we can slow down > enough for me to quit work and go back to school to pursue my > mechanical > engineering degree at WMU. We live in "yes there really is a" > Kalamazoo. Dude, the GGC autocrosses just haven't been the same without you. You can keep up with the goings-on here, though: <http://www.justracing.com/ggc_bmw_cca/viewforum.php?f=1> - Mark ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out my JustRacing Home Page at: http://www.justracing.com/homepage/mdadgar ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:44:34 -0800 (PST) From: "Jim Bassett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: E36 ignition - switch or cylinder? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, January 29, 2007 11:11 pm, Brian Ruiz said: > Holy cheezits! Those pictures are HUGE. What, are still on dial-up or something? :-) They certainly show all you need to know, though. Nice job, John (and "Hi!" :-)). Jim Bassett ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:32:36 -0500 From: KMS- Brett Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: UUC Digest <[email protected]> Subject: Time for the pickup truck to go. 530iP anyone? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Selling the 530i pick up truck. It's in dire need of a lot of work to bring it up to where it should be. We don't have the time, and I'm tired of watching it rot into the ground. Currently listed on ebay http://tinyurl.com/37trgu without reserve. Spread the word. Brett Anderson KMS ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:36:20 -0800 (PST) From: Phil Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: UUC] Time for the pickup truck to go. 530iP anyone Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ok I gotta have a bimmer pick up Phil ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:58:56 -0500 From: Matthew Tremmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: <E36> Coolant Leak Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have a quick drip leak of coolant that is winding up behind the crankshaft pulley and then running down the front edge of the oil pan. I can't seem to locate the source. The thermostat and hoses seem to be dry. There is dried/caked antifreeze residue on most of the pulleys. Is the most likely culprit the water pump gasket? A lot of stuff to pull off just to check. Hoping someone has been there, done that. Thanks, Matt Tremmel '94 325is ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:49:46 -0500 From: Ed MacVaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: <E36> Coolant Leak Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Water pump seal. The water pump "gasket" on that car is a simple rubber o-ring, that if not pinched, will likely outlast the water pump. The seal, on the other hand, wears with use, and wear of the bearing behind it allows increased radial runout of the shaft, further wearing the seal. This is typically the failure mode on most water pumps and the second most typical on that particular car (impeller disintegration likely being most common). Ed Matthew Tremmel wrote: > I have a quick drip leak of coolant that is winding up behind the > crankshaft > pulley and then running down the front edge of the oil pan. I can't > seem to locate > the source. The thermostat and hoses seem to be dry. There is dried/caked > antifreeze residue on most of the pulleys. > > Is the most likely culprit the water pump gasket? A lot of stuff to > pull off just to > check. Hoping someone has been there, done that. > > Thanks, > > Matt Tremmel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:17:42 -0800 From: Kazuto Okayasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: <E36> Coolant Leak Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 05:49 AM 1/31/2007, Ed MacVaugh wrote: The o-ring in my M54 was somehow not installed correctly at the factory or something, and it had a slow leak ever since I bought the car new. The symptoms were as the original poster described, where coolant dribbles down the front of the block and gets flung around by the crank pulley. In my case, I didn't feel it was severe enough to mess with, so I waited till the pump started to go (bearing rattle but no failure or leak through the seal), replaced the whole works, and the leak is now gone. >Water pump seal. > >The water pump "gasket" on that car is a simple rubber o-ring, that >if not pinched, will likely outlast the water pump. > >The seal, on the other hand, wears with use, and wear of the bearing >behind it allows increased radial runout of the shaft, further >wearing the seal. This is typically the failure mode on most water >pumps and the second most typical on that particular car (impeller >disintegration likely being most common). > >Ed > > Kazuto Okayasu Manager, Desktop Support Services Administrative Computing Services, University of California, Irvine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:47:44 -0800 (PST) From: Phil Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: <E36> Coolant Leak Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I would bet its the water pump gasket not likely - how many miles? Phil ____________________________________________________________________________________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 ------------------------------ End of [bmwuucdigest] digest(12 messages) **********
