What did you do to your 2002 today !

[Leucadian]

GC suspension setup is complete!  Overall, huge fan of the whole system, especially the fit and finish of everything.  I may raise the rears a little, but I love the way she sits now.

 

 

Car goes to the local shop for alignment then that should do it.

[JQ02]

Look what I found! 

Factory repair panel 41351885106

My local BMW dealer found it in stock in Germany and shipped it here at their cost.

I had rolled the fender, so I guess I'll be re-rolling it after the mending. As far as I can tell, this was the only area that had bondo. I think I just need from 9 o'clock to 1 o'clock. I'll be sanding this down to confirm.  Hopefully, blasting won't produce any surprises elsewhere.

 

[its55]

On 2/23/2024 at 4:19 PM, SydneyTii said:

Which model of Recaro are they? I love the centres!

 

 

Sorry for the late reply - here is a pic on the side which shows all the info I'm aware of ...

 

 

[wingswheelshulls]

Picked up and mounted the refinished bottle caps and new tires.  

 

I like the bottle caps on a 2002, there I said it.   And you know what?  I also think the bottle caps were the best looking part of the e30, the square block on block that was a styling step backwards from the e21...there I also said that😃  (sits back and waits for the torch and pitchfork mob)

 

These are placeholders until I locate a complete set of the soup bowls which are my fav '02 wheels.

 

 

Edited March 1 by wingswheelshulls

[BeMyWay]

45 minutes ago, wingswheelshulls said:

Picked up and mounted the refinished bottle caps and new tires.  

 

I like the bottle caps on a 2002, there I said it.   And you know what?  I also think the bottle caps were the best looking part of the e30, the square block on block that was a styling step backwards from the e21...there I also said that😃  (sits back and waits for the torch and pitchfork mob)

 

These are placeholders until I locate a complete set of the soup bowls which are my fav '02 wheels.

 

 

 

I like the bottlecaps also.  I keep that information quiet.

 

I have a refurbished set, still boxed up until such an occasion arises for their use!

 

If you have a moment, will you please post picture of your car with the bottlecaps mounted.

[wingswheelshulls]

8 minutes ago, BeMyWay said:

 

I like the bottlecaps also.  I keep that information quiet.

 

I have a refurbished set, still boxed up until such an occasion arises for their use!

 

If you have a moment, will you please post picture of your car with the bottlecaps mounted.

I don't have any great profile pics, but here is one w/ my friend's MGA.  Decent view of the 'caps before refurb.

 

 

Edited March 1 by wingswheelshulls

[JKKH]

On 2/10/2024 at 5:30 PM, Mark92131 said:

This is more like "What did you do to your 2002/1600 for the last 4 days".  Well I did something no one should attempt.  I pulled the heater core out of the heater box without removing it completely from under the dash.  Why, mostly desperation!  As you may recall, while running the S14 motor in the 1600, I had coolant running out of the heater box and pooling inside the driver and passenger floorboards.  Assuming that the heater core had blown a seam, I started the process of removing the heater box from under the dash.  Two 10mm bolts, a couple of ground wires, four fan wires and the heater and air control levers and it should come out, right?  Not so fast, I swapped in a 1 piece dash and it covers the mounting hardware for the heater and air control levers on the 1600, so the dash would also need to be removed to get the heater box out.

 

Rather than spend hours pulling the dash, I decided that I should be able to drop the heater box enough to pull the top off and extract the heater core.  If I was 5'10" and 165 lbs this would have been a good approach, but at 6'3" and 215 lbs this was stupid.  It took me 1 day to get it out, 1 day to test it and come to the realization it wasn't leaking, and 2 days to put it back together and reinstall it.  Turns out the inlet heater hose on the driver's side was leaking into the top of the box.

 

Some lessons are harder than others.

 

Mark92131

BUT...look at that color!  That Nevada should make all the pain melt away...

[OldRoller]

Spent the rainy afternoon cleaning the sunroof mechanism rails and replacing the broken plastic pivot slides on the ends of the cables. Some months ago (knowing I had broken slides) I downloaded the files from thingiverse and had a local with a 3D printer make some. I had him make 4, cheap a 8 bucks per. 

 

 

A little rough, but they fit the rails and slid well. I needed to enlarge the anchor pin and lifting pin holes a tiny bit for fit, and take a small amount of material off the back edge for the rising anchor to clear when moving. Strong plastic, I will probably not need the second set.

 

[bergie33]

3 hours ago, OldRoller said:

Spent the rainy afternoon cleaning the sunroof mechanism rails and replacing the broken plastic pivot slides on the ends of the cables. Some months ago (knowing I had broken slides) I downloaded the files from thingiverse and had a local with a 3D printer make some. 

 

 

 

How did you end up attaching the sliders to the cable? I'm trying to figure out the best way to attach mine. 

[MauiBob]

I found a chrome rear windshield strip in a baggy I KNEW had somewhere from Illuminescence group about 100 years ago.  Try put one of those in, I'd rather have a root canal.  I have the special tool, took an hour looks great!  Now Maybe do the front!

 

 

[scatman75]

After who knows how long(prob over 2 years) of my motor being disassembled. Finally got the crank into the block, hoping it motivates me to get this thing back together

[OldRoller]

9 hours ago, bergie33 said:

How did you end up attaching the sliders to the cable?

I was able to remove one of the slugs by turning and pulling it off with vice grips. Reused and crimped it well. The other I had to carefully cut off, used an electrical butt connector fully crimped. The sliders must be able to turn on the central wire. 

[JQ02]

Did I miss a memo about some new eco trend that a PO of my car was aware of?

(that appears to be a leaf on the oil pump screen!)

 

[jimk]

Dino oil has those in the mix.

[tarheelbob]

13 hours ago, OldRoller said:

Spent the rainy afternoon cleaning the sunroof mechanism rails and replacing the broken plastic pivot slides on the ends of the cables. Some months ago (knowing I had broken slides) I downloaded the files from thingiverse and had a local with a 3D printer make some. I had him make 4, cheap a 8 bucks per. 

 

 

A little rough, but they fit the rails and slid well. I needed to enlarge the anchor pin and lifting pin holes a tiny bit for fit, and take a small amount of material off the back edge for the rising anchor to clear when moving. Strong plastic, I will probably not need the second set.

 

 Do you have the files to share for the 3D printing, or a link pointing me in the right direction? My son in Raleigh would just love to make a few of those for his dear old Dad with the rusty 1976 2002. It's the least he could do, right?