OriginalOwner

Awesome drive, those are great roads !!

Cheers,

Carl

"truck" or "trunk" ??

here in the winter danger zone of SoCal, it's road flares, sunscreen, beach blankets, and umbrellas. Maybe a thin windbreaker.

and the occasional shotgun for those days when it is "skeeting" outside ..... as opposed to sleeting.

Cheers,

Carl

ndog,

over the past 15 months the screen has been in the inlet continuously. I have removed and cleaned the screen numerous times. Always some minor amount of gooey stuff found but not a lot. Certainly not the chunks that the Jag guy was getting as noted in austinmf"s link.

Cheers,

Carl

This is like a high school science project. My thinking is that the screen is always "on" and the water is always hot and circulating, and whatever might be floating around will eventually arrive at the screen. That is a very reasonable assumption for the past 15 months.

Likewise, hooking up a garden hose for a short-time cold water flush may not unseat nor flush out the stuff that hardens when it is cold.

And I've noticed no real restriction to inflow to the radiator. As the screen is not a 100% tight fit, not all water flow is through the screen. Amazingly enough, my car still runs nice and cool. So far, I haven't detected any problems caused.

Cheers,

Carl

This is a STATUS REPORT sort of post.

Last year I made and installed a screen for the radiator inlet, here is a picture .....




HERE IS THE DISCUSSION THREAD FROM LAST YEAR ...
http://www.bmw2002faq.com/topic/118468-putting-a-screen-in-the-upper-left-radiator-inflow/?hl=screen#entry146582 

PROGRESS REPORT
I have removed and cleaned the screen several times over the past 15 months, with some gunk present each time.
This morning I again cleaned the screen. Again, there was some minor gunk which I'm glad is no longer in the cooling system.

Cheers,

Carl

this is a LESSON LEARNED type of post.

A couple of days ago I changed the gear oil in the '74 tii's transmission. The owner's manual says, "80W non-hypoid gear oil."

But yesterday bourkeco warned me to check the GL rating, that I wanted GL-4, not GL-5. GL-5 stuff contains sulfur which is harmful to the brass parts (synchros) in the transmission. All these years I had never heard of such ratings, and no idea how many years I might have used a GL-5.

And sure enough, I had just put GL-5 into the transmission.

So I did some info searching, here's a couple of threads .....

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,0/page,viewtopic/t,370919

http://forum.roadfly.com/threads/10973232

So today I bought Redline MTL and will be getting that into the transmission today.

http://www.redlineoil.com/product.aspx?pid=45&pcid=7

Cheers,

Carl

Hi Harry,

wow, that's a beauty of a 2002 !!

everyone is of course welcome, the idea is to ooh and ahh over the cars, and for many of us, to actually meet face to face.

Cheers,

Carl

bourkeco and I had lunch in Chino today. We brainstormed an idea for something of a "cars and coffee." Here's what we figured out as a first cut:

Date: Sunday, December 2nd

Time: 9:00am .... and after lunch

Location: Centro Basco Restaurant & Motel, 13432 S. Central Avenue, Chino

Venue:

1) huge paved parking area on the south side of the motel

2) we'll have some coffee brewed up, maybe some goodies

3) if interested, Centro Basco serves a fantastic lunch at 12:30pm

bourkeco and I plan to have lunch that day, so our brainstorming was thinking this could be a morning on into an after-lunch/afternoon gathering, lots of flexibility for show-up and departure .....

So, there's the idea to start with ......

Cheers,

Carl

Jack Fahuna

JF Pro BMW Service

Van Nuys, CA

http://www.probimmer.com/Kugelfischer.php

Cheers,

Carl

going back into some ancient history ..... 38 years ago today.

05 NOV 1974 was a Tuesday, and it was election day !! In those days I was driving a 1958 Morris Minor.

That afternoon I rode to the polling place in my pal's brand-new 1974 Datsun 260. Fast, quick, comfy .... a far cry from the Morris.

That very evening of Tuesday November 5th is when I decided I would buy a new car, and decided upon a BMW 2002. Six of my classmates had already owned 'em and liked 'em, so I decided to be the 7th.

Cheers,

Carl

Great Idea !!

OK, the disclaimer: this is NOT me ..... but it is one of my most-favorite scenic drives whether in car or on motorcycle.

My '74 tii has made this exact drive more than a couple of dozen times over the past 38 years. For many/most/all of us SoCal people, it would be a good bet we've all driven some if not all of these sections of Pacific Coast Highway & Hwy 101 from Malibu to Santa Barbara.

Cheers,

Carl

"Hey, y'all watch this." I have an old inner tube from a car. I cut a BIG piece and put it between the speedometer cable and pedal box, adjusting to cover the hole. Then a number of tie wraps to various places and in various configurations to secure the inner tube. The idea is to keep road chunks and water from going into the pedal box.

Cheers,

Carl

ha, 4 years of engineering school ..... but can I balance my checkbook ??

Cheers,

Carl

From a mechanical engineering load analysis viewpoint ...... if that restraint at the tranmission is not installed, the bolts holding exhaust manifold-to-head resist all the induced loading due to exhaust system motion. Those loads can be very high due to the weight of the exhaust system moving around. That connection (manifold to head) becomes a "hard point" and all loads and loadings are resisted there by only the bolts.

As noted above in a previous post, that mount/restraint tends to prevent the header/flange from moving differentially to the engine. One wants to prevent those differential motions which thus ensures those bolts only hold (i.e., fasten) the exhaust manifold to the head and are not subjected to other loading conditions which may increase bolt stress beyond the yield point. In particular, a side-to-side swaying of the exhaust system will induce rotational loadings onto the bolts, and these loads can be surprisingly large.

That mount/restraint will prevent/restrict such induced rotational loads. And will also help resist the fore-and-aft motion of the exhaust system. That loading causes shear loading on the bolts.

Cheers,

Carl

Cheers,

Carl

+1 allbim. Open a valve and shoot "high pressure" compressed into the cylinder to keep chips from falling into the cylinder.

Cheers,

Carl

jmp,

now THAT is an awesome idea !! Perhaps impractical at times, but .....

Cheers,

Carl

you go, Harv !!!!!!!!!!

Cheers,

Carl

Those are great roads !! I've done the Santa Clara to La Honda to San Gregorio beach and return ..... a fine drive, done it several times.

Cheers,

Carl

I get over those "unbalanced" worries by going for a drive ..... from the driver's seat such things have no meaning.

Cheers,

Carl

+1 sislane, if the gear slips on the shaft.

I had the problem: the main drive gear (a press fit to the shaft) had loosened on the shaft and was slipping.

Gentle disassembly, some gentle hammer "persuasion" on the shaft to oblong it a teeny tiny bit where the gear resides, reassemble.

Works fine. It took longer to get the assembly in & out of the dashboard than it did to do the fix. And if desired you can readjust the odometer to any desired mileage while disassembled.

Cheers,

Carl

TOTALLY AWESOME !!

Cheers,

Carl

"Hey, y'all watch this ......"

some days I feel like a need a checklist just to prepare a bowl of cereal for breakfast .....

Cheers,

Carl

just curious ...... the second picture: what is that green laser dot just above the bumper ?? And on the ground, what are those glowing green circles ?? Got some kinda zombie thing going ??

Cheers,

Carl