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Henn28 · #**15580** 01-18-2023, 05:02 PM

So jealous of the lifts! My wife wants a tiny house someday, which I've told her I'm fine with as long as it 1) doesn't have wheels 2) has a huge garage with a lift, and 3) has a big pool. Not too much to ask for I think.

My brakes have been fine for the week+ since I checked all the torques, cleaned the rust off the area of the rotor, and did another break-in cycle on them (ceramic pads). So who knows why that one section rusted so badly and caused (I think) the bad wheel vibration. Hopefully this issue wont return.

Took some time today to add 1/2 quart of tranny fluid to the mighty 5HP24. I have all the ingredients for a fluid and filter job, but haven't had time to get it out to base and up on the lift. The trickle of fluid that came out after a half quart went in was definitely darker than the stuff that went in, but didn't smell burnt, per se. The tranny is a remanufactured unit that went on in Oct 2019. After that I put a new wiper arm and blade on the back, new Bosch Focus blades in front, and a new OE coolant expansion tank to finally replace my 20 year old OE piece. Piece of mind for an upcoming drive to Asheville with the wife and dogs for some R/R. I didn't drain the radiator and only got peed on a few times with the 150 deg coolant in the tank as I emptied via the progressively lower hose attach points. Once the new one was hooked up I bled the system with the aux pump and bleeder screw and managed to not make an exceptionally huge mess in the driveway. The coolant is only a year old so I just reused what I drained out of the old tank. After that I washed the dogs since the hose was out.

By way of follow-up, I am quite happy with the Ultima rebuilt Bosch starter I got from Oreilly's a few weeks ago when my OE starter took a dump in the grocery store parking lot. The new one still catches me by surprise with the explosive force it turns the M62 with. I guess I had just gotten used to the 20 year old one getting progressively weaker. The fact that Oreilly's had it in stock still surprises me.

Been spending some time getting up to speed on what, if any LSD options we have for the X5. I know several have gone down this path in years past, and I'm digesting their posts and any other experience I can find. Quaife used to make an LSD for the rear X5 diff and I've got some feelers out to their retail partners. My experience in light mud and just a little semi-frozen slush this winter while hunting demonstrated again why the ABS makes for a very poor LSD substitute. I'm not sure of any issues with having an LSD only on the rear diff of an AWD vehicle, nor of what the ABS will think of it, but I"m sure those answers are available somewhere. My thoughts are to simply have a solid pick and pull rear diff rebuilt with an LSD (assuming any are made for the E53 anymore) and then swap it in.

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