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The November 2019 issue of BMW Car published a story on the M30 engine. Not as detailed as I'd like it but it's not terrible.

Am I mistaken or are these rich prices for very sad, neglected and rusty e24s? When all said and done with mechanical, rubber and paint, you'd be into the US$30k area.....
--Ken

Looking at the auction house website, they have "chosen not to publish the results." Any idea what these sad looking 635's sold for?

I saw your post from a few years ago and I'm in need of a new muffler (actually the rear section) and the Walker pops up on Amazon. But I have an '84 633Csi which is not supposed to accept the Walker. Anyone with any idea why it doesn't fit? or any suggestion for a reasonably priced solution?
--Ken

Now that I refurbed my battery tray and the green oxygen tubing is holding up, the discharge from the battery is collected on my Walmart drip tray. The acid ate through the tin coating. A great example of the corrosive power of battery acid.

The originals were looking dodgy and a well made SS set was a fair bit cheaper than stock rubber so on they went. Unfortunately the brake pad sensor wires etc look almost as bad s the brake hoses! https://i.imgur.com/g9PsuqJl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/514oODEl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/D91xaCgl.jpg htt...

I replaced the rear sway bar bushings. Does anyone know why the pass side bushing retainer takes this belt and suspenders approach with two retaining clips, one over the other? I originally thought it was in error but the REL OEM confirms it and there is a land on the body side to accept the second...

Wonderful fall view! What camera/lens? (Probably a cell phone pic...........)

Eric, Thanks for the knowledge on the diff mount. As to the busted Pitman arm bolt removal (a previous set of pics) I bought 2 left hand taps and two left hand grade 8 bolts from McMaster Carr. Wildly expensive (bolts about $10 each and the taps about $8 plus S&H). a 1/4" and 5/16". If it works, its...

I need to replace the diff mount as previously discussed on this blog. But a few questions for you all. I'm going to put the rear on jackstands and remove the rear tires. I will put a small floor jack under the diff before I remove the bolts. But my concern is whether the diff will drop (but be supp...

Is this for manual trans only?

While readying my 6 for the winter, I looked carefully at the battery. I found some white fluffy stuff in the battery tray which was from acid overflow. But from where? So I pulled the small DieHard battery which had 2 small holes on either side of the case. Upon further inspection there was a baggi...

Superb job! Song, how do you get to the nuts holding the hinges in place? Somewhere along the way, I recall that some chap with great woodworking and laminating skills made pods out of exotic woods with a P-U coating. If I dig it up, I will post although it could have been for another BMW applicatio...

It's really too bad they don't design them to use standard faucet washers which are available everywhere.

I need to replace the rear section of my muffler as the mid pipe to rear muffler joint is rusted through as is the rear muffler. I found an ANSA model BW2545 mid section which applies to the 1982 633CSI. I'm not certain of a match to my '84. Is this applicable to an E12 and NOT my E24? I'm not look...

I went through a similar issue, recall getting a different mount and then found a number of posts here and on MyE28, discussing the different options etc. I suspect there are more than a few similarly deteriorated mounts driving around out there. No help though on the correct ride height settings t...

Okay. So I found the P/N on my existing Diff Mount: 33 17 1 125 290 and using realoem it applies to the Euro versions of the 628 and 635 only. It is about 40mm higher than the specified Diff Mount for my USA 633CSI. I think my indy shop many years ago used this instead as it gives the suspension mor...

I'm working on the rear end and had bought a Meyle Diff Mount from Autohauz AZ. They supplied P/N 33 17 1 129 786. But it is too short and seems to fit the 635 per Realoem and not my 1984 633csi (VIN 6997510.) It is only about 50mm in height while the existing mount is about 80mm. I know my mount ha...

I subscribe to ReinCARnation magazine and they had a short story on heat control products made by Design Engineering inc. (www.designengineering.com) I suggest you take a look for fuel line, oil line, exhaust wraps, etc.
--Ken

Bobbo, Wonderful news. I pulled the plug in '17 when I hit 70 and then started drawing beaucoup social security and RMDs from my 401k. So my cash flow is about the same. So now I am spending time with "Honey-do's" and trying to find time to wrench on the E24 and the E32: both are currently garage qu...

I need to replace the rear section of my muffler as the mid pipe to rear muffler joint is rusted through as is the rear muffler. I found an ANSA model BW2545 mid section which applies to the 1982 633CSI. I'm not certain of a match to my '84. Is this applicable to an E12 and NOT my E24? I'm not looki...

Here's another non-oem source: I found a Molex "Plug Housing with Integrated Seal- Valueseal" Numbers 172877-0002 and 172878-0002 which can be bought through Digikey. Molex has great product drawings. Only question is how the wire is fixed to the connector. It mentions "terminal series 173041 and te...

Ron,
I've used the 3300 model this past winter and I topped off the water in the cells before going into storage. Have you tested the charger output with a multimeter?

Are the tail lights (lenses and housings) intact?
--Ken

If the front end be bad, what can we hope from the rear?