Project Cheapskate has left the building

[enuff_zed]

I might have a good door ..will look tonight

Be great if you have Barry. Its a black one.
Cheeky ask, but have you also got the plastic trim that fits around the bonnet catch too? (Twist Protection - 51237002012)

Good old Barry, door and bonnet catch trim on it's way to me at 'cheapskate' cost.

[Scubaregs]

Nice one, the power and camaraderie of a good forum.

[Pondrew]

Nice one, the power and camaraderie of a good forum.

Are you feeling OK, mate?
You've got me worried now, with posts like that. Get a grip, man.

[Scubaregs]

Nice one, the power and camaraderie of a good forum.

Are you feeling OK, mate?
You've got me worried now, with posts like that. Get a grip, man.

My apologies, I hadn’t been drinking.

[Pondrew]

My apologies, I hadn’t been drinking.

Phew, that was a worry. Get on the sauce and get back to normal.

[enuff_zed]

Well it's been a while, but I am making a little progress. Done a few little clean up bits, but wasn't worth getting too involved all the time the EPS issue was hanging over me. so last Sunday I whipped out both seats and the steering wheel. Then I phoned the surgery to book a tetanus jab!!!
On the plus side, in amongst the 20 years of debris I recovered 87p and an as new pair of genuine Rayban Wayfarers.

An hour later the EPS motor was in a box and I'd booked ECU Testing through Ebay.
True to form they phoned me at 8am Monday, emailed me a postage label and DHL collected that afternoon. Tuesday lunchtime they called to confirm they'd found a fault, rectified it and were posting it back. It got here 11am this morning!
So today I am taking advantage of the sunny weather to clean, recolour and seal the seats. Then it'll be a deep clean of the carpets and put everything back together.

In the meantime I've gathered together a complete set of front and rear shocks, top mounts etc, new plugs, known good coils from Stuart, a new centre storage door from Barry, a vanos repair kit from X8R, various trim clips, LED bulbs etc.

Plan is to get it steering properly then use it for a month until the MOT runs out, to hopefully shake out any other issues it's hiding.

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[paddy wright]

Great work- thanks for the update

[Zedebee]

That pile of goodies doesn’t look particularly cheapskate.

[enuff_zed]

That pile of goodies doesn’t look particularly cheapskate.

Well by keeping an eye on Autodoc discounts and finding some basically fitted but never used rear shocks, added to the generosity of a couple of forum members, that little lot has come to a little under £375.

[Robster68]

Good luck with the vanos refurb

[enuff_zed]

Good luck with the vanos refurb

Ha ha!

[Robster68]

Just a heads up mate,if you doing rattle rings on vanos supplied by x8r,they told me they may have produced a bad batch of undersized 7.3 mm instead of 7.5mm width which causes the needle bearings to be squeezed a bit to much so they don’t spin inside pistons.

[bigwinn]

Just a heads up mate,if you doing rattle rings on vanos supplied by x8r,they told me they may have produced a bad batch of undersized 7.3 mm instead of 7.5mm width which causes the needle bearings to be squeezed a bit to much so they don’t spin inside pistons.

What?!?

That’s pretty significant?

[Robster68]

What?!?

That’s pretty significant?

I’m happy I screwed assembled pistons on camshafts before I put vanos together

[enuff_zed]

Bit more progress last night and this morning. Took a while, dodging the showers, but now have the EPS motor back in, cockpit rebuilt, battery reconnected, started up and no little yellow steering wheel.

The eagle-eyed may spot that the sacrificial section has been removed from under the column. This is BMWs way of getting the column out. The chap I bought it off took it to a 'specialist' who lowered the column, including butchering the panel, then decided it was too difficult and put it back together.
I'm not condoning cutting that section out, but it did make it a bit easier to get at the mounting bolts for the motor.

Next stop, sort out the misfire from cold.

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