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  got a cup of coffee at the Shell station at Azusa Ave and the 210 Fwy .....

  then headed due north ..... Azusa Ave becomes San Gabriel Canyon Road

  about 13 miles to East Fork Road, turn right.

  about a mile to the Burro Canyon Shooting Park turnoff ...... 

I just saw this at another site ..... sometimes very apt for troubleshooting 2002's ....

"If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem."

Cheers,

Carl

 I will be out of town .....

Cheers,

Carl

 ndog lost me .... my car is non-smoking (well, there was that cute Westwood babe quite a few years ago .....) .......

 anyway, had the wind wings wide open and the 70mph air blasting on me felt superheated !!  I needed some water to splash on me for some OK a/c.

Cheers,

Carl

 a nice cool drive this morning through Carbon Canyon ........

 by the time I departed Centro Basco:   70mph with the wind wings, and it was still plenty hot on the drive home ......

Cheers,

Carl

 let your cruise bring you to The Salt Lick for dinner .....

    http://www.saltlickbbq.com/pages/Directions.html  

Cheers,

Carl

 ndog,

 yeh, these new cars can be a headache, but I have myself to blame:  too much lunching and not enough wrenching.

Cheers,

Carl

sounds to me like those spacers should be a Forum pass-around item ..... 

Cheers,

Carl

 not so much new to the board, just too-selective in my reading and responding.

 this particular fuse:  the worn-away end is the one pointing "downward and away" from the eyeball, in the stiff holder .... not the "upward" springy-end holder.  Thus when only rotating it, like I've done all these years, one doesn't see that end of the fuse.

 and I've always assumed that corrosion was the problem:  a couple of wiggles and no more problem.  I hadn't a clue the metal itself was wearing away.

Cheers,

Carl

Last week I again experienced intermittent operation of the turn signals, it has happened many times over the past many years.  One day they work, the next they don't, the day after they work just fine.

I finally figured out the root cause:  the metal at the end of the fuse is worn away causing an intermittent connection.  And you cannot see the problem unless you actually remove the fuse.  All these years I've just wiggled it to supposedly "solve" the problem, without actually removing the fuse.

Here's the trouble-causing fuse end:  there is not supposed to be a hole there, a new fuse has a solid metal cap.  Over the years, that metal was worn away, for all I know it is probably the original fuse.

Cheers,

Carl

 never too early to learn the basics ..... 

Cheers,

Carl

 I don't want to say that is impossible, but I am 100% impressed with the ingenuity of that heretofore un-thought-of solution !!

Cheers,

Carl

Chamoix,

   those days are still around for BMW drivers, but alas, it is only the 2002 drivers who still seem to know, understand, and practice the secret handshake.  I actually had a 2002 blast past me on the freeway last year with no acknowledgement, but perhaps he never even saw me.  Out here in the antpile one does not expect to see a 2002.

Cheers,

Carl

 for over 38-1/2 years my Navy classmates and shipmates have been saying that the strangest thing to be found in my car is ..... me.

+1 KFunk.

So, I just ran out to check:  my lights work !!  If I noticed that, I certainly don't remember.  I gotta learn to pay more attention to the obvious.

Cheers,

Carl

 it's not that BMW drivers are jerks ....

It is that everyone else is jealous, and jealous people tend to often violently project their own inadequacies outward in attitudes which are less tolerant of those folks of whom they are most jealous.

Cheers,

Carl

p.s.  I learned that in college, so it must be true.

 Steve, 

swing by here for lunch .... I was there the other day, Fantastic !!

Canyon City BBQ

 347 N San Gabriel Ave  

 Azusa

Cheers,

Carl

Ray,  I gotta laugh at your comment !!  I'd still have German air in the tires if I hadn't had to change the originals.  I'm a 100% stock kinda guy, and somewhere on the car I know there's some German dirt in some crevice that hasn't yet washed out.

Steve, classic story !!

Cheers,

Carl

here's my story on topic.  My 1948 Chevy truck had this exact problem.  I discovered that the pickup tube inside the gas tank had 6 tons of crap wedged into it.  Overnight, sufficient amounts of gasoline would percolate through the crap, up to the gas level in the tank.  Upon starting, the engine ran fine.  But quickly enough the pump couldn't pull gasoline through the crap:  fuel starvation.

     I discovered the problem by forcing compressed air into the fuel line, in the direction of the gas tank.  Very little air actually went through the line, ergo, massive blockage in the fuel tank pickup tube.

     My solution:  I punched a hole in the side of the gas tank and installed a fuel pickup tube of my own design and manufacture, with a screen on it.  Problem solved.

Another fuel starvation problem with the same truck:  a pinhole leak in the rubber diaphragm of the mechanical fuel pump.  Fortunately I could buy a rebuild kit for those old pumps.

Cheers,

Carl

 +1 allbim.

  swag'ing about with Google:

http://www.bcdcorona.it/en/Prodotti.asp

http://www.classicpreservation.com/fuelpumpkits.html

 http://www.maritimedragracing.com/antique_auto_parts_cellar.htm

Cheers,

Carl

 here's my story on topic.  My 1948 Chevy truck had this exact problem.  I discovered that the pickup tube inside the gas tank had 6 tons of crap wedged into it.  Overnight, sufficient amounts of gasoline would percolate through the crap, up to the gas level in the tank.  Upon starting, the engine ran fine.  But quickly enough the pump couldn't pull gasoline through the crap:  fuel starvation.

     I discovered the problem by forcing compressed air into the fuel line, in the direction of the gas tank.  Very little air actually went through the line, ergo, massive blockage in the fuel tank pickup tube.

     My soluion:  I punched a hole in the side of the gas tank and installed a fuel pickup tube of my own design and manufacture, with a screen on it.  Problem solved.

Another fuel starvation problem with the same truck:  a pinhole leak in the rubber diaphragm of the mechanical fuel pump.  Fortunately I could buy a rebuild kit for those old pumps.

Cheers,

Carl

 not sure I fully understand it, but I did see it over at the NSA website ......

Cheers,

Carl

 in a thread awhile back, Blunt suggested "personal lubricant" to increase the slideability of rubbery thingies onto metal thingies.  I've since used it quite successfully for coolant hoses and fuel hoses.

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/topic/55560-any-tips-on-install-of-rubber-grommet-that-surrounds/

Cheers,

Carl

SO, I depart the house early this morning in my '74tii.  I'm zooming east along on Carbon Canyon Road, just east of Valencia Ave.  All of a sudden, the engine isn't running.  I have enough road speed to coast 1/4 mile into the Carbon Canyon Regional Park parking lot, quite amazing actually.

The dash lights are just fine.  I open the hood, nothing looks funny.  I can't figure out if it is ignition or fuel delivery (electric fuel pump problem ??).

I close the hood and hope for the best .... the car starts up just fine ..... nice, but nerve wracking.

Big Decision:  do I continue to Chino, or head for home and troubleshoot ??  I opt for the troubleshoot. 

I get home just fine, no problems.

37 years ago I installed a small switch in the coil-to-points wire.  The switch when "on" acts as a cutout to ground the points so the engine won't run.  Turns out the switch finally "broke" and is now intermittent in the "on" position.  So I simply cut the switch leads and twisted 'em together.  I'll go find another switch and get it installed.

Whew ..... scary.

Cheers,

Carl

  WOW !!  great find, you're gonna love it !!

  I'll add to your work list:  

a)  changing transmission oil and rear drive oil.

  http://www.bmw2002faq.com/topic/142374-lubricants-grease-etc/?hl=transmission+oil#entry933527

  http://www.bmw2002faq.com/topic/140793-transmission-fluid/?hl=transmission+oil#entry927585

 topping up the oil in the steering box.

  http://www.bmw2002faq.com/topic/140198-steering-box-oil/?hl=transmission+oil#entry933704

Cheers,

Carl