Go with the heat shield one piece gasket. Your plug wires and rocker cover gasket will thank you.
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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:38 pm
- Forum: Cars and Parts for sale
- Topic: FREE M10 copper lock nuts for exhaust manifolds
- Replies: 5
- Views: 144
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:34 pm
- Forum: Interior
- Topic: Unknown switch underneath radio
- Replies: 5
- Views: 78
Re: Unknown switch underneath radio
Neither have I, leastways in a coupé
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:53 am
- Forum: Engine - Mechanical - Electrical
- Topic: Front electric window
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1036
Re: Front electric window
For some reason I can't delete the duplicates.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:48 am
- Forum: Engine - Mechanical - Electrical
- Topic: Front electric window
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1036
Re: Front electric window
These may be out-of-order, but I think you can figure out which goes where.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:44 am
- Forum: Engine - Mechanical - Electrical
- Topic: Front electric window
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1036
Re: Front electric window
I believe you can download these and print them (including the one posted above)
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:40 am
- Forum: Engine - Mechanical - Electrical
- Topic: Front electric window
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1036
Re: Front electric window
Gonna try something here.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:41 pm
- Forum: Interior
- Topic: Unknown switch underneath radio
- Replies: 5
- Views: 78
Re: Unknown switch underneath radio
Power window lockout?
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:36 pm
- Forum: The Saloon
- Topic: Photo help
- Replies: 3
- Views: 77
Re: Photo help
Linking to a "photo sharing" site or cloud storage is a bad idea, especially if it's a "how to" thread. Inevitably the cloud storage changes or the photo sharing site starts charging for access and the photos go away. There are, unfortunately, many useful threads here that are no...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:57 am
- Forum: Suspension - Steering - Brakes
- Topic: Sachs or bilstein
- Replies: 3
- Views: 85
Re: Sachs or bilstein
If he's using stock springs (i.e. stock height) Sachs will be fine. I had two cars with lowering springs, one with Konis and one with Bilsteins. The ride was identical. Firm, not harsh, but definitely not a comfy ride like a stock E24.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:03 pm
- Forum: Suspension - Steering - Brakes
- Topic: Sachs or bilstein
- Replies: 3
- Views: 85
Re: Sachs or bilstein
I think you answered your own question. Smoother ride= Sachs.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:14 pm
- Forum: Engine - Mechanical - Electrical
- Topic: Main relay has to be jumped to run car
- Replies: 5
- Views: 664
Re: Main relay has to be jumped to run car
When I got my 84 633 the OBC was inoperative (still is), at least visibly. I was pretty sure it was still functioning in the background. It started randomly activating the OBC, as though there was a code entered, disabling the car. No crank, no start, just dead, but jumpering the main relay as you a...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:22 pm
- Forum: Cars and Parts for sale
- Topic: Glow gauges dials for sale
- Replies: 6
- Views: 743
Re: Glow gauges dials for sale
Any way the back light can be red? I'd possibly by interested! The red/orange tint of the cluster illumination (NOT the guage faces) is from the "light pipes" that bend/direct the light to illuminate the guages. You could replace the stock lights with red LEDs, but I wouldn't recommend it...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:11 pm
- Forum: Engine - Mechanical - Electrical
- Topic: Close Call, Just Lucky. or Neither
- Replies: 12
- Views: 649
Re: Close Call, Just Lucky. or Neither
And as far as using the battery disconnect that Ken showed is concerned, I would have to reset all sorts of crap on my new stereo, not gonna happen [-X Who listens to the stereo while driving? :lol: I want to hear the M30 singing! 😉 I wasted several hundred dollars on a nice Kenwood system when I g...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: Engine - Mechanical - Electrical
- Topic: Main relay has to be jumped to run car
- Replies: 5
- Views: 664
Re: Main relay has to be jumped to run car
i have also learned that the fuel hoses on my bimmers requires frequent inspections, since they deteriorate within 1-2 years. You can thank ethanol-blended fuel for that. There are ethanol safe hoses available at 2X the cost of regular hoses. It only takes a couple replacement cycles to exceed the ...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 11:24 pm
- Forum: Engine - Mechanical - Electrical
- Topic: No ignition on hot days
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1894
Re: No ignition on hot days
They are serviceable, but the starter will have to come off. I replaced the solenoid and bendix on my 633 several years ago. I got the replacement from WrongAuto (RockAuto), and it was wrong. There are two types of forked levers that go from the solenoid to the bendix. One has the fork ends that fit...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:03 am
- Forum: Engine - Mechanical - Electrical
- Topic: 1978 Euro 635CSi rev issues
- Replies: 18
- Views: 886
Re: 1978 Euro 635CSi rev issues
Perhaps the plug to the MAF itself?
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 5:26 pm
- Forum: Engine - Mechanical - Electrical
- Topic: Close Call, Just Lucky. or Neither
- Replies: 12
- Views: 649
Re: Close Call, Just Lucky. or Neither
BMW owners manual says to disconnect the ground while charging. I guess the BMW engineers could be old wives.
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:25 am
- Forum: Engine - Mechanical - Electrical
- Topic: Close Call, Just Lucky. or Neither
- Replies: 12
- Views: 649
Re: Close Call, Just Lucky. or Neither
Install one of these. When on the charger/trickle charger, or just in storage, lift the switch bar. It isolates the battery. I have one on every car, truck and even tractors and lawn mower I own, since it is sometimes months between uses.
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 1:23 am
- Forum: Exterior
- Topic: Windscreen Availability
- Replies: 2
- Views: 490
Re: Windscreen Availability
From BMW, true, but there are aftermarket suppliers.
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 1:48 am
- Forum: Exterior
- Topic: Wiper Arm Guard Screw
- Replies: 10
- Views: 809
Re: Wiper Arm Guard Screw
My 84 633 has the airfoil dohicky on the wipers. They still lift off the glass at 100+ mph......not that I ever drive that fast, mind you.
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 11:37 pm
- Forum: Tires and Wheels
- Topic: New Source of BBS Style Wheels
- Replies: 4
- Views: 911
Re: New Source of BBS Style Wheels
And here are step-by-step instructions on how to post a picture
https://bigcoupe.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=22
PLEASE don't post a link to a photo sharing site. Those disappear for various reasons, leaving a dead end thread without pictures.
https://bigcoupe.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=22
PLEASE don't post a link to a photo sharing site. Those disappear for various reasons, leaving a dead end thread without pictures.
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 11:32 pm
- Forum: Tires and Wheels
- Topic: New Source of BBS Style Wheels
- Replies: 4
- Views: 911
Re: New Source of BBS Style Wheels
I'll help you out.
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:16 pm
- Forum: Cars and Parts for sale
- Topic: FS UK RHD M635CSi #286
- Replies: 2
- Views: 689
Re: FS UK RHD M635CSi #286
"Full leather", but cloth. Never seen leather cloth before.
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:55 am
- Forum: The Workshop
- Topic: 1970's Cars
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1248
Re: 1970's Cars
Didn't some of the after-production modifier houses use a 6 digit VIN in place of the original BMW VIN? (Alpina, Dinan, etc.)
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:48 am
- Forum: The Saloon
- Topic: BigCoupe Shirts are back **
- Replies: 8
- Views: 829