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Originally Posted by Joshdub
What specifically are you guys having problems with? My stuff looks rather fresh, but is the uninsulated. I have been thinking of getting the insulated kit. It doesn't look too difficult.
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When I looked at the job as described in the Bentley manual, I thought it didn't look too bad either, but it didn't take long to figure out that the Bentley skipped a number of important things. Like the fact that you can't see any of what you're doing unless your head is the size of a baseball and you suspend yourself from the rafters of your garage, upside down, to do the job. And it helps to have hands the size of a capuchin monkey.
I was able to get it done without removing the manifold, but it's one of those jobs that would work well for a DaVinci laparoscopic robot, unless you take the time to pull the intake manifold off. It's not an easy job. Not impossible, but one where you need to budget your time wisely, and not dive into it when you've got a short window of time where it
has to be done.
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Originally Posted by StephenVA
Sorry to hear your leaving the family.
Your the only person I have met on the BMW boards who is from that area of country. My mom is from Emery SD which as you know is a few miles west of there. Sioux Falls was the "big city" to her.  |
She may not recognize Sioux Falls these days; the city plus the surrounding "suburbs" is well over 250,000 people now. Not huge compared to some places around the country, but it's feeling a lot bigger than I remember it being when I was a kid.
I'm not necessarily leaving the family; I still have a herd of BMWs to care for, and this is one of the few boards with a decent signal-to-noise ratio where a guy can get some good answers to questions that come up. We just bought an e46 325i last week, which also has an M54 in it, so I'll be around. And who knows; we may end up in another e53 sooner or later. They're at about just the right age where the price/condition ratio makes them an excellent buy.