When your drinking coffee and just took yoour water pill hearing the coolent drain has an effect on you..nice repair i'm surprized i thought that WD40 over there would be WAAA40 just saying..Back in the late 60s when i was working on cars i should have got some stock in WD40 company, that stuff is still amazing . In 70s when i work in the auto machine shop we had two other products, one was in a quart can called Motor Flush. You would add it in to your oil when you would change it. What we found was it made the best penetrating oil and could break loose rusty bolts better than any other product. Next we hand as spray can left a silicone wax coating on the sureface. After grinding crankshafts or resurfacing heads, we would spray it with that suff amazing protection from rust. I think we had a 55gal drum of WD40.
Hi mate wondering if you can help , done mine yesterday handy enough but when I released the 3 E8 torx bolts and dropped the thermostat the wireing thats attached to it came with it ?? It looks like it had been snipped off at other end ? Cant find anything about this online or even where it supposed to be joined to ?? Any Ideas ? Thanks
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Euro-Junk and all their plastic coolant pipes!!! Have fun and Keep Rocking it out Brother!!!
You know I'm not a fan Pat...Cheers mate.
I have a n42b20. I hate those plastic pipes. I will change all coolant system with aluminium pipes.
When your drinking coffee and just took yoour water pill hearing the coolent drain has an effect on you..nice repair i'm surprized i thought that WD40 over there would be WAAA40 just saying..Back in the late 60s when i was working on cars i should have got some stock in WD40 company, that stuff is still amazing . In 70s when i work in the auto machine shop we had two other products, one was in a quart can called Motor Flush. You would add it in to your oil when you would change it. What we found was it made the best penetrating oil and could break loose rusty bolts better than any other product. Next we hand as spray can left a silicone wax coating on the sureface. After grinding crankshafts or resurfacing heads, we would spray it with that suff amazing protection from rust. I think we had a 55gal drum of WD40.
We had some sort of cutting oil...or the oxy....I learnt how to drill and tap back then or be very careful.
nice work Ziggy, I hear that things are settling down with Covid there, hope everyone is well.
Thanks Ron. Yeah the government is pretty strict here. Cheers
Zig is there products like i talked about below you really like to use working on cars??
Sorry Dan...Can you clarify.
wonder why they put it there Zig ? Great share my Friend ENJOYED !!
Darn Germans. Cheers mate
Your scan tool looks like a pretty complete one. Is it a Snap-On?
No John it's an old LAUNCH..I have a Snap-On at work that's much better and faster.
Hi mate wondering if you can help , done mine yesterday handy enough but when I released the 3 E8 torx bolts and dropped the thermostat the wireing thats attached to it came with it ?? It looks like it had been snipped off at other end ? Cant find anything about this online or even where it supposed to be joined to ?? Any Ideas ? Thanks
Sorry mate I'm not the BMW expert.
It's torx e6,3mn
I'm afraid I'd have to leave that kind of job to a young guy like you, that's a silly place to put a thermostat housing.
One of the reasons I don't like them....Cheers Vern.
Not torx socket it’s a euro torx socket
Yeah what ever bud.
ZIGgassedUP I hate work Euro stuff Specially sprinter vans and trucks
Good job mate not my cup of tea the BMW nice looking car though
WB statesman would be nice or an XD Ute old school is the best school mate
O/m not a fan but this one has been looked after...I'll stick to my '38 Chevy and 5 litre.