IansPlatinum
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- Jul 23, 2018
- Location
- Texas
My god. Incredible! I need to harness your energy & skill for the rusty quarters on the 145.
Looks great man. Super impressed
Looks great man. Super impressed
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My god. Incredible! I need to harness your energy & skill for the rusty quarters on the 145.
Looks great man. Super impressed
Also, how's that refresh going? I haven't seen an update in a while.
I know, I've been lazy on updating my thread
Everything's good, I'm driving it daily now since the 850 blew a headgasket. I'll scrub the engine bay and take some photos
This reminds me that my passenger side door switch isn't connected to anything. Wonder whether I'll ever get around to it...
I was there for 5 years or so. Then your fixes wear out and you start all over again.
My T5 is making noise and the alarm horn in the BMW stopped working. Sometimes you just have to take it like a man and spread you chee...wait wrong analogy.
The odometer failures are related to a little plastic gear that sheds teef. Not a big deal to repair at all.
Ohhhhhhhman. STACK time.
In order to keep my build thread relatively streamlined, I decided to keep my cluster issues in it's own thread. Here it is again. https://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=350828 However, I'm pretty confident that this is the end of THAT particular problem. A very nice guy sent me a new motor. With careful soldering and new iron, I was able to bring this odometer back to life!
What's a bummer is that I still cannot confirm whether I have full IP operation or not. This started happening every drive cycle.
Either I messed up my gauge while I was fixing the odometer, or my engine isn't staying warm. I say "staying" because the gauge goes up to operating temp for a minute or two after warmup, and then starts to crawl down to under 1/4. It never goes back up unless I let the engine cool all the way back down. I popped the hood and felt around. The radiator hoses are not very hot. I even squeezed the upper to find that the system is really pressurized. The expansion tank cap must not be holding pressure. However, there is still a lot of coolant in there, so I don't think it's boiling. Thermostat?
Interested to see what you find here... my temp gauge has always hung out right at 1/3. OE temp thermostat, temp faker bypassed. No matter if its the dead of summer in texas with AC on, etc... I might try a hotter thermostat and check the results with a IR temp gun
That is kind of odd. My temp faker is bypassed as well. I'm not really sure what would be normal to see, but my temp gun was showing 125F at the t-stat housing after a 10 minute drive. That seems quite cold to me. I feel like it should be too hot to touch and relatively close to the opening temp of the t-stat.