What did you do to your 2002 today !

[0257]

Like I allus say, smoke it if you got it.

 

[0257]

Apropos of which, while I have named my car Fjord, I am considering a name change.  This car was owned by a father and then his son in LA before being sold to Wheeler Dealers for a refresh in 2015. Their refresh did not dive deep enough, however to find this.  Ah, remember the 70s, anyone?  If not, this may be why.

Can I get a show of hands for renaming Fjord?  Maybe “Ziggy?”

[TE2002]

Installed some longer velocity stacks to my DCOEs and also a new 123 distributor. 

 

[uai]

Drove 600km of country roads and alpine passes

 

[dlacey]

First drive off the island...

To Taiping, an early tin mining town about 2 hrs south of here.

Good acceleration, no overheating or running-on... Quite happy with that. Still gotta improve hot start...

[tech71]

Took the backroad into town today, stopped at the produce market then looped back home via the highway.

Got my first 2 thumbs up of approval, couple of winos but I'll still take it?

Installed tires that came with the car have to go, good excuse to mount my alloy wheels

Edited September 6, 2020 by tech71

['76mintgrün'02]

My odometer stopped working, eight years and 31,168 miles after I repaired it.  I had followed the tutorial in the Articles section and it worked quite well, up until a couple of days ago.  This time, all I did was tap the shaft back in again, figuring the little ridge I had made on the shaft would dig into a new spot on the plastic gear.  

 

 

A couple of years ago, I learned not to use compressed air to dust-off the cluster, since it also blows dust in. 

 

I cleaned the dust off of the faces and lenses while it was apart.  That fix will make me smile for a while.

[ray_]

Cute hammer ^

 

['76mintgrün'02]

22 minutes ago, ray_ said:

Cute hammer

 

Thanks, Ray.  It's my tiniest one.  (far left in the ball peen line-up)

Funny how often I reach for it... kinda funny how many hammers I have.  

 

Tom

[Swiss 2002Tii]

23 hours ago, uai said:

Drove 600km of country roads and alpine passes

Brings back fond memories of my first... '68 Bristol 1600!  Sounds like a great drive!

[Swiss 2002Tii]

4 hours ago, '76mintgrün'02 said:

Thanks, Ray.  It's my tiniest one.  (far left in the ball peen line-up)

You sure know how to make a guy jealous! ?

[Swiss 2002Tii]

On 9/5/2020 at 8:22 PM, 0257 said:

Can I get a show of hands for renaming Fjord?  Maybe “Ziggy?”

Thumbs up for "Ziggy"!?

[fljjmarz]

Hi everyone!
I’ve been trying to get back in the garage since the end of July but just couldn’t find the time.  
So I took advantage of the Labor Day holiday, to get back out there and get the rear brakes done.

I changed both Rear brake hoses, both wheel cylinders, shoes, and drums.

The system hasn’t had brake fluid in it since before I got the car 3 years ago, so I don’t know the condition of the master cylinder.  Without filling the system, is there any other way of knowing if the master cylinder is good?
Thanks,

Frank

Edited September 8, 2020 by fljjmarz

[PaulTWinterton]

20 hours over the last 4 days to swap out an injection pump.  

 

Why so long?  There's a reason BMW makes special tools.  If I had the special puller for the toothed pulley I wouldn't have had to remove the radiator to use a generic puller.   And the grill to access the puller.  And drain the cooling system. Etc.  Etc.  Etc.

 

Anyway, the newly installed pump is calibrated to 500+ PSI injectors.  We'll see how it performs.

[SydneyTii]

39 minutes ago, PaulTWinterton said:

 

Anyway, the newly installed pump is calibrated to 500+ PSI injectors. 

The Kuglefischer really is a clever bit of kit, the atomisation that it puts out will be incredible!