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  1. Oldtimerfahrer
    They all will only have the standard colors/patterns, out of the ordinary is out for the E30...I had mine made due to the fabric....not leather. Andrew
  2. Oldtimerfahrer
    Pretty much everything is reversible so I'mall for convenience...I don't miss the power steer on the 2002, but I have two E30's and the one "with" is a lot easier to maneuver....cant imagine doing a gymkana with a slow box and no power steer....guess I am getting old.
  3. Oldtimerfahrer
    Im not a fan of cahsel, his methods for acquiring nos stock are not to my taste....but "Ritchie" who I don't personally know, does stuff rather than buys stuff to resell...I drool over the gearboxes....https://www.gmt-bauer.de/
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    I would source another cover, mine is black too but I was loathe to polish and clearcote one again. I did it once around 2006, even though I drive 1000 miles a year, after a few years the clearcote was going dull...so put the black back on...no, not original but I have webers as well... Andrew
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    You are right, there were some improvements in creature comforts and the seats were better too...but the driving experience was awful and buzzy on the highway even with the 5 speed. It felt solid, but not like my E12 I had at the time. A 323i would have go, but not sure it would compensate.
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    I was so thoroughly underwhelmed by the only E21 320i I ever drove (when it was new) that I have never contemplated buying one...
  7. Oldtimerfahrer
    Ronal R2?
  8. Oldtimerfahrer
    Hi, no criticism, just that on rovers you have cheap alternatives.... A.
  9. Oldtimerfahrer
    @tdh those are land rover pictures and you can get an entire new harness for series land rover's for peanuts...really peanuts, but noone seems to sell an affordable 6 fuse harness for 2002s for reasonable money. A.
  10. Oldtimerfahrer
    Congrats! Yes, interesting mirror, is the driver's side the same? The springs will lower it, hope those are not e21 rims i.e. have the right offset to put 185/70 tires into those wheel arches. Lowering a bit and chunky tires to fill the arches make a big difference...at least optically. Andrew
  11. Oldtimerfahrer
    well then, you chose poorly, perhaps something like a ford pinto would be more appropriate for you...it will always be worthless....and blow up in your face...like the rants.
  12. Oldtimerfahrer
    Yeah, air suspension, but still kind of very cheesy. A.
  13. Oldtimerfahrer
    Sorry, but this is bullshit. College students need a dodge colt or a ford fiesta or a Subaru whatever in the 1980's. Driving a 356 to college was not normal in the 1980s either. Your rants are growing tiresome. A.
  14. Oldtimerfahrer
    Wasn't there this grest expression "there is a sucker born every minute..." someone just might buy it out of ignorance, but selling it for that money is kind of malicious. Their ads show up in Europe on some online sites, a lot is expensive and unviable. A.
  15. Oldtimerfahrer
    Yeah, when you see through the sills and the wheels point in different directions, then its a great opportunity....
  16. Oldtimerfahrer
    I have seen a few complaints, but your statement is exaggerated. I have heard the discourse on the design and the quality of the components. Its like ikea furniture, just works but not pretty. I have three, been "testing" one more than ten years, no havoc and no other crappy breakerless setups or rebuilt distributor woes. It is easy to set up and works better than the other setups I have had in the past. I don't work for them, I use them and have never had a problem. One runs in a Land Rover, that is subject to off-road conditions but no abuse. I had problems with mine hitting the firewall too, but that was my fault and rectified by myself. Not sure knocking the product is constructive here. Andrew
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    I'm sure Lars would have an opinion, I don't have any real comparisons either. I think its usually the subjective eye/nose factor....the one that looks closer...I would swear that a 1970 Triumph Stag and a 1970 MGB maintained in the same conditions would have a certain smell. My friend's Chevy Montecarlo would have a slightly different one. Better? No, just different. For vinyls, if you ignore the grain, what is the difference. You coukd probably find a cheap thin one, used in Germany or made in Germany...but on fabric, try to find a high quality velour for a 1980's Mercedes made domestically...try to find the right looking one period... A.
  18. Oldtimerfahrer
    I see a plastic pivot pin 1511202659 on the E21 parts explosion 21/1, is that the one you are referring to? Its a black plastic pin. I will try to check whether the release arm is moving correctly when depressed. For bleeding, I used a windscreen washer pump as a friend recommended, worked great until the seals understood that they were in contact with dot4 and not washer fluid. Did bleed the system though before expiring.
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    I suppose you could fabricate something using the pushrod and mounting face of the slave to hold it in place and then a bar to force the rod against the lever arm. Would have to think about that, since its slave housing is cast it wont take to welding too well but could use it as a template to just make the plate then figure out how to hold the rod. I was thinking that lever could be broken (unlikely but possible) or the clutch disk is stuck in a certain position on the splines of the input shaft, but it would be more like to stick in a disengaged position than in the current engaged position.
  20. Oldtimerfahrer
    You mean, pull the slave and try to depress the release lever manually via the small hole? The overdrive box 245/4 has the lever inside the bell housing unlike the 232 4-speed.
  21. Oldtimerfahrer
    Well, the rod was ok and the hydraulics are now replaced and aired out. Pedal has pressure but no action on the clutch. It does not disengage. I had no noises, so the the throw out bearing is not likely. No chattering clutch, operated well until ceased operation. Now that I think of it, I am not sure my pumping actually did anything. The spring in the bellhousing on the opposite side of the clutch slave has no movement when the clutch is depressed, even if its just a pivot point, I would have thought that it would have some movement or at least you could feel when the throwout arm moves....A bit at a loss on what to check. I dont really want to pull the whole thing unless I am sure I cant avoid it. Andrew
  22. Oldtimerfahrer
    I was at a cars & coffee type of affair Sunday, a mechanic who bleeds systems all the time said that an easy solution is to use a windscreen washer pump to suck the air out. I had not heard of this, I have seen the vacuum based ones. He said go to napa, buy the cheapest washer pump you can find, some wire and alligator clamps and a fuse. Set the pump up like a test rig on a small piece of wood, with the clear plastic tube connecting suction side of the pump to the bleed valve on the slave. I asked about the brake fluid ruining the internals, but he said that he has been using the same pump for 10 years... I also have been having fun with this, all the components are now swapped, just need to bleed it. Andrew
  23. Oldtimerfahrer
    Hi, Bleeder is pointing down, otherwise I would not be able to bleed it..but the picture shows a hard coupling from the slave to the bracket, then a rubber hose to the MC. I purchased 21 52 1 120 306, which is a combination of rubber and metal hook end, with the hook end , so part 1 in the picture actually looks like this below. Does bracket 4 mount to the gearbox and then pipe 1 connects the master to the hard pipe 5? My car did not have a gearbox in it, someone had sourced a 265 box and cut the old mounts but did not get any further. Now looking at it, bracket 4 should be on the gearbox... which then would all make sense to me. Andrew
  24. Oldtimerfahrer
    Thanks to all for the input, I did plan on replacing all three items, assuming the E21 hose does the trick. When I did the conversion, I didn't have the E30 hose at hand, so I have a rubber hose from the MC to a bracket, then a hard line to the slave cylinder. In retrospective, not a great idea, the rubber should isolate the vibrations...but the hard line has not failed but I was thinking that rubber hose might be ancient. I bought the E21 318i 5-speed hose with the metal hook form on the slave end hoping its long enough. The pieces I have look like a combination of Hennings picture, probably not the right combination either...sins come back to haunt I think..
  25. Oldtimerfahrer
    To put it into context, Latvia is a relatively recent part of my life, I grew up in New York, went through the 2002 recycling boom in the 1980's on the East Coast...used to visit a scrap yard during college in Vermont called the "wire wheel", which had a few 02's, E21s, E12s, mg's, some other really crusty english cars...Friends drove their 02s through the New England winter. That is all gone. I was in Germany a few days ago, you used to see classics parked on the street in the 1990s, those are all gone too. Not scrapped, but no longer a used car. The 2002 and its ilk, like /8 Benz or even VW Beetles have become "rolling cultural artefacts"...In California or Nevada you have the luxury of using your 02 year round. With the congestion, speeding and lacking safety features, not sure an 02 is generally speaking appropriate as a daily driver, but that's a different issue. Andrew
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