1974 2002 farm find

[sebandwhit]

I finally got the engine pulled out over the weekend! Woo hoo! Big shout out to Austin for bringing beer, help, and motivation! LOL Ive never had a car with the dirt shield still attached to the trans. The dang thing kept the motor stuck to the engine... until I realized what was going on.

Time for the pressure washer!

I hope to get in the new motor and get this thing moving on its own power soon!

[Collinster742002]

Y'know, those look MUCH better than the seats in my daily ;P they don't appear to be torn from those pictures. Hopefully that sunroof seal/window seals didnt leak too bad over the hibernation. The nice thing about California is the climate is such that the cars stay well preserved. My 76 has been sitting in the garage for 19 years still rusting away from good ol' NC humidity.

Hope your engine swap is going well! Looking forward to hearing some updates on this car, for some reason I'm more interested in it than most 02 finds. It's the color I think

[sebandwhit]

If I ever decide to get rid of the seats you can have first dibs! But they are pretty comfortable... so I will keep them for now.

Before cleaning:

After cleaning:

A little wire wheel action some rust prep and paint:

[sebandwhit]

I still have a bunch of work to do but I want to get the engine bay finished before I put the engine in. Got the starter on the motor and plan to do a compression check tonight.

[Collinster742002]

Your A/C components look great, hopefully you get that evacuated/converted to r134 at some point Used mine yesterday.

Engine bay looks really good too, especially as long as it sat outside. I'm more amazed every time I see a new picture of this car at how well it's held up after being outside for most of it's life.

[sebandwhit]

Didnt get to the compression check but I finished the engine bay prep and Im getting the motor ready tonight! Hopefully have the engine ready by wed!

[Collinster742002]

Sweet! before you drop it in, though, you said you had a low mileage tranny out of your 76. How do you know the 74's is any good? It'd suck to do all this and have a bad trans.

[malagalaga]

Looking forward to hearing some updates on this car, for some reason I'm more interested in it than most 02 finds. It's the color I think

Same here! I'm fascinated. Thanks for the updates!

[Collinster742002]

Hmm, as for the originality of this car... Are those seats from a later car? They look like the headrest holes ate in the middle vs to the sides. I wonder if this car retains the crappy seatbelt interlock system that came in 74's.

[sebandwhit]

I have a feeling the trans is good. Im not positive but Im going to give it a shot. The throwout bearing looks good and It moves into all gears fairly well. So we will see

Im not sure if the seats are original... but they have been in there for a very long time. They are not perfect and have some flaws but I will use them until I find something better... or have them redone. I have never thought to check on the seats to see if they have the interlock system.

I did find a link for a "how to" on bypassing the system if it has one. If anyone needs it you can find it here.

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,57/page,viewtopic/p,688228/#688228

[Collinster742002]

Since you said the original engine had low compression, that was probably why the P.O. parked it... just a thought.

These later transmissions are pretty durable, just make sure to change the oil. Diff's too while you're at it.

You probably knew to anyway, seeing as this isn't your first "sitting" 02

As for the interlock system, I believe you can unplug the seat sensors and that lets you start the car (tricks the system)... I've never actually looked at that on my car. It was originally a 74 2002A, but now pretty much a 76..even the later system was swapped in.

[roadhog0]

Side note with the trannies later 02 trannies had Borg Warner syncrhos which were more durable and the output shaft was fine splined. The course splined ones looked like this if not replaced with fine splined parts.

[sebandwhit]

Great information and advice! I do appreciate it. Yea... I definitely need to change some fluids. The winshield washer fluid container had some surprisingly well preserved dead blue bugs in it! Lol

[Collinster742002]

bump

Motor in yet?

[sebandwhit]

The compression tester I was tryin to use had a faultly schrader valve. We got another one and the motor has great compression... so Im ready to go! Ive been holding off on posting again until I get the motor in. I hope to have it in by the middle of the week. Still want to pull the pan and change a few gaskets. I always forget how much there is to check and replace in the engine bay. I will have pictures soon!

Thanks for the push!