Over the weekend I fixed all the issues that cropped up from the oil pan job. I have to bleed the brakes one more time and I think it's finally all good. I was unable to bleed the clutch, the 7 mm bleeder is rusted solid and I rounded it off with my grandfather's 7 mm wrench. So ordered a new slave cylinder and some small good box wrenches.

- new front brakes, ate calipers, Zimmerman rotors, akebono pads.
- Goodridge stainless lines front and rear. Seems good.
- remove the belt and isolated the noise to the power steering. Removed and rejiggered the power steering pump. Seems good. The 17 mm line fitting wasn't in all the way. Bled the system and it's quiet. I think the line blowing off was due to overpressure in the system which could have just been air, and I was using some fancy atf4 stuff that might have the wrong viscosity I don't know. Just regular cheap ATF now.
- two of the oil pan bolts had a drip on them. Crank down the area a bit with the quarter inch ratchet. When I did this on the E36, I did 10 newton meters, 10 newton meters. I went back over it as seems common sense to do when there's 28 bolts holding something. (19nm on the three transmission bolts last of course). However on the second to last bolt, I got the spinning at eight and a half newton meters and panicked. I think that one is still holding okay, it did get 10 originally. So, when I did this oil pan, on the x5, and when I saw m539's video the day before, he didn't go back over it. 10 newton meters. And in the factory manual, rarely it will say something like 26 Newton meters, 26 newton meters. Explicitly telling you to go back and double check. So I don't know, what do you do for an oil pan do you go back and double check the 10 or not? I did use the chaser tap and clean them all once or twice and of course the two that were dripping were the dirtiest ones. So maybe really really clean and chase the threads.

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'05 E53 3.0 6mt
'17 F30 340ix 6mt
'96 E36 328is, in progress