OriginalOwner

AWESOME !!!! Atlantik has become my favorite color.

and if you please, where is the location ?? Maybe mine will get up there one day for some photos.

Cheers,

Carl

in the morning: heading from La Mirada to Chino, via Carbon Canyon. Do some trap shooting at Prado, hopefully bourkeco will be there ....

Then lunch at my favorite place:

Then after lunch a nice freeway-all-the-way cruise: the 60 West to the 57 North to the 210 West to the 118 West, and into Simi Valley.

Cheers,

Carl

"scary" is way too calm a word for that episode.

Cheers,

Carl

jgerock,

your plan sounds exactly like what I would do ..... I don't imagine the bolts are captive, so it's just crud holding 'em in.

Can you turn the bolt at all ?? Try turning and simultaneously "pounding" the bolt head back down against the engine head to loosen. Hopefully a back & forth will loosen sufficiently for removal. Plus crud removal of course.

Otherwise an auto shop hot tank soaking ??

Cheers,

Carl

*Purchase price (in USD please)= $7,200 out the door
*Purchase date= NOV 1974
*Mileage= 000000000000000.0
*State of purchase= SoCal
*Model year= 1974
*2002 or 2002tii= 2002tii
*Color= Atlantic (dark) Blue
*Auto or manual= manual
*Factory options= nothing, not even a radio.
*Any aftermarket accessories that came with the car (including but not limited to wheels, suspension, exhaust, seats, stereo, mirrors, pedals, steering wheel, etc.)= nothing aftermarket, bone stock.
*Did the vehicle come with tool kit= Yes.
*Your assessment of the vehicle history in terms of paperwork/receipts (1-10, 10 being highest)= 10, I have almost everything.
*Your assessment of the interior quality (1-10, 10 being highest)= 10
*Your assessment of the exterior quality (1-10, 10 being highest)= 9, paint a tiny bit faded, but still original
*Your assessment of the mechanical condition of the vehicle (1-10, 10 being highest)= 9

+1 helicoil.

on the other hand: Is there access to get a drill in there ?? You gonna be removing it in the next 20 years ??

if not, "redneck heresy" and use a little dab of JB Weld, it is not a load-bearing bolted connection. When you do need to remove it, doesn't take but a slight turn of the wrench to loosen and remove.

best of all, nobody will know the difference by looking at it .....

Cheers,

Carl

FYI from my notes .... other places for a KF rebuild.

Pacific Fuel Injection .....

Gus Pfister

153 Utah Ave

South San Francisco, CA 94080

650-588-8880

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,50/page,viewtopic/t,351908/

http://www.bayarea02.com/features/pfister-interview/index.html

Fairchild Industries (Robert Turner)

5242 Westside Rd, Redding, CA 96001

530-241 1592

Cheers,

Carl

"detail oriented"

The odometer on my '74 turned 10,000 miles in June 1975. Since then, I have maintained a record of the date on which the odometer turns another 1,000 miles. A few years later, I also added the city at which it happened.

Just last weekend I turned 229,000 miles, so that's a lot of log entries.

Cheers,

Carl

ndog,

your standard equipment includes "constant air flow" .....

so, like, what is that ?? sounds as if they mean, "the windows do not roll up completely"

Cheers,

Carl

my 1948 Chevy truck could be started using a crank handle, the crankshaft pulley had the notches for it, and the grill had the hole in it to get a crank handle in there.

that's how they started 'em back before the electric starter was invented.

Cheers,

Carl

1150ss,

Sierra Hotel !! that is one great story about those two cars !!

Cheers,

Carl

an ingenious idea !!!!

Cheers,

Carl

About 5:30pm I saw James and the 2002 this afternoon here in La Mirada, cruising down Santa Gertrudes !!

Cheers,

Carl

again from very distant & bad memory, the Clymer manual says 2 ft-lbs or some such to tighten the castle nut ??

What I have always done is gently tighten it up, then back off one notch of the castle nut.

This always results in some wiggle of the tire on the bearings. Because of the design of the castle nut, it is impossible to get all the wiggle out. So don't worry about a little wiggle . I've been told that too loose is better than too tight ..... and LOL, that is simply a 1 notch choice on the castle nut.

And I'll recommend you re-check the adjustment after a few hundred miles. Everything will wear-in a tiny bit, the grease will be pushed out a tiny bit, thus loosening things up a tiny bit. You might be able to tighten the castle nut one more notch, maybe not. Nothing to be worried about, much less paranoid. Those things are plenty tough, and I've never had any problems in any of my vehicles with over 100 combined years on the road.

Cheers,

Carl

that's what I'm thinking, the "keyed in" feature.

Cheers,

Carl

from memory, I think the washer keys onto the shaft ?? If so, it cannot spin.

Cheers,

Carl

Give Limeworks Speed Shop a call ..... LimeySteve all the way over in Uptown Whittier. He posts here at the Forum and is quite the knowledgeable BMW enthusiast.

http://limeworkspeedshop.com/

Cheers,

Carl

"how far over the edge are you if you buy a totally rusty 2002 tii just for the front struts?"

sounds to me like Major Clangers ringing loud and clear !!!!

Cheers,

Carl

mike wrote, "Thus the current muscle car craze among Baby Boomers."

I'm a BB'er. In high school my dad bought a new 1970 Chevelle SS396, the cranberry red w/ black stripes variety. I drove it on & off through college, then when I graduated he more or less gave it to me. But after 5 months the price of gas (and 14mpg) was overpowering my meager Navy paycheck.

A high school pal started telling me about these things called a "2002" ..... I briefly investigated and bought one. 33mpg on the highway was certainly a prime consideration.

Cheers,

Carl

p.s. I returned the SS396 to my dad .... and like every Boomer out there, I'm sick at heart that I let him sell it in 1977.

Fantastic !!!

Cheers,

Carl

We'all went out there early one spring, it had been raining ..... slippin' and slidin' all over, I must have slung 50 lbs of mud into the wheel wells making forward progress. When I got home it took quite a while to wash it all out of there.

Cheers,

Carl

heist,

actually 5 miles east of Calico: take Mule Canyon Road east to Tin Can Alley Road. Here's a panorama of the area during a campout a few years back .... some fun semi-off-roading to get my 2002 in there ....

Cheers,

Carl

so, fuzzynormal,

Tell us about the experience of driving a 2002 ..... differences from a "regular" car ?? Better, worse .....

Those are some excellent roads from San Diego to Anza Borrego to get a good idea of how the car handles .....

Cheers,

Carl

that will do the trick.

I also hose-down the fan belt with some sort of spray-on Belt Dressing stuff I bought at Pep Boys. Just something else to do.

Cheers,

Carl

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here's the tool kit in my '74 tii .....



Cheers,

Carl