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I’m local in the Bay Area and would like to do a drive some time soon.

Where are you, lots of us in the "greater" bay area

And welcome to the madness

Thanks guys, means a lot =D> We're still struggling with the loss, only time will heal this wound :cry: But wow, 7 dogs, I cant even imagine :shock: We do have another Aussie, Charlie, also 9 years of age but very spry and we expect him to be around for quite a while longer :-" Actually, we kno...

Yep! That's what I'm talking about

Maybe even the links, as these appear to be sellers that are not all that common

That shift knob is awesome

Dang, those pieces are nice

Yasin, you might want to consider including the supplier(s) of some of your items such as these, as others may want to know where they can score them as well

I don't have an M car, but I do know a few, hundred

After over a 13 month battle, our beloved Aussie, Grace (one of 2...) succumbed to Lymphoma. Yes, it's true, dogs have the same organs that we humans do :-? She was doing well but ran out of treatment options, and went down hill fast after turning just 9 years of age in March :( We miss her dearly a...

I was going to suggest the clock connector as well, looks a lot like mine, but I have a series 1 version :-k Check out the connector right in the middle with the black tape around it in the attached photo, looks very similar although the wire colors are different :-" Does your clock work in the...

Here's a scan from the "Big Blue Book" showing the alternate direction of the 6 bolts

The Hardy Disc used with auto tranny's has the arrows on it, not sure about the giubo, however

Cerakote is applied as a powder and then baked. It forms a much thinner layer than traditional powder coat. Back to the Cerakote, typical powder coating is electrostatically applied, then baked on, how does this powder adhere :-k Regarding the use of Redline fluids, been using them forever, in both...

I have a spare analog clock if anyone is looking for one

Put it in yours Bert, it looks way better

I can walk you through the process, that way I won't skin anymore knuckles

Yes, one of the projects that I've been wanting to do for years, has finally come to fruition \:D/ One thing that helped was that the original digital clock finally crapped out, well, didn't stop working but you had to push the button to see the time displayed, and I had enough of that [-X There are...

Here ya go, Bert, right from the horses mouth

Most likely the gears are shot, but you have a couple of options for replacements

https://www.odometergears.com/

https://www.garagistic.com/

And do a search on this site for past experiences, plenty of E24 owners had to replace their odometer gears

Thank to Brian, our site admin, the word doc has been converted to a PDF =D> So all you should need to view the document is Adobe Acrobat reader :-" I have also deleted Ken's attempt at posting the contents, at his request :wink: I will also post this document in the "Tech Articles" f...

WOW +2, you guys that can do all of this rust repair and fabrication work simply amaze me

I can handle pretty much any mechanical repair, but have no ability to do this stuff, not envious but still wish I could

Keep up the great work and keep us posted

Jeff, my apologies for not updating this thread, but the copper nuts are gone, I sent you info to reach out to the new owner :-" Regarding the use of heat shield version exhaust manifold gaskets versus standard, I would second Ken's comments and recommend the heat shield type :wink: Check out t...

Dang, won't let me save it as a PDF ](*,) Gonna try something else, MS cloud storage with a link [-o< https://sway.cloud.microsoft/HXBSRdBJuPQP0MTD?authoringPlay=true&publish Lemme know if this works, otherwise I will figure out another want to save the word doc as a different type of file that ...

Hmm, a lot of warm weather lately, welcome to climate change

Congrats on the new addition to the family

Still not sure how you do it, work, kids and now a baby

Ralph is one of the important "cogs" of the 6er community that keeps these wonderful machines running :lol: He's even made good in one case for me, related to a power window motor that initially worked but failed shortly after :-? I was able to use parts from it to repair my own original, ...

Here's a couple of pix of mine, with and without the cover :-" And it is for the aux fan, one way you can be sure of that is to turn on the A/C :-k The aux fan should come on with the A/C on [-o< Looks like yours has (had?) some custom wiring there, that black jumper doesn't look factory :roll:

Dang, you bag her for the winter :shock: Sux that you guys have to go through this, but much of the states also deals with "real" winter, Canada, I guess lots of other places in the world does as well :-? Driving our beloved 6ers is year round here in CA, provided it's not raining :roll:

Dang, more envious work accomplished

Cerakote is similar to Powder coating, except much much thinner and also high temp

OK, so not powder, applied as a liquid but also baked on

I guess I could just Google it and find out

Smog test prep, full story here

viewtopic.php?t=33963

Actually completed a couple of days ago, most of the time I was waiting for parts to arrive

And, the "after" pix

Yes, I will once again try to go through a "legal" smog test, which up until a few years ago was not a problem, until the glorious state of CA decided to fail me due to non-CARB compliant headers :twisted: What started as a simple check of the air filter and checking out the spark plugs, I...

Darn Bert, I thought you were gonna take them off my hands

Well, I ran the P/N in realoem and it turns out that they are for attaching the downpipes to the manifolds, amongst other locations

So 12 would be more than enough to get that job done