What did you do to / for your E53 today??

[Fifty150hs]

Originally Posted by SoCalM5

[andrewwynn]

It should be a welding school. maybe superstitious welders.

Soldering like welding does not have a Braille version. I know. I've tried it.

Pushed my thumb onto a large blob of solder to make sure I didn't use too much and make the spring stop springing.

It left a "brand" on my thumb but the more interesting part was it left a fingerprint on the solder blob/ battery contact

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[EODguy]

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[guntherrex]

hahaha!

[Henn28]

Have been looking at a check brake lining warning for a couple weeks, which I thought was the rears due to the fact that they haven't been changed since 2016. They are fine however, but the rear brake wear sensor had broken (wire) and was triggering the cluster warning.


I knew the plastic was in terrible shape on the female plug ends and had ordered several previously, along with a few new connectors, just in case. I was able to work the connectors out of the old plugs, and/or break the old plugs up around the connectors and push them into new sockets, and install new brake wear sensors at the same time. Not a bad job, but I didn't realize the grey grommets around the connectors were separate pieces. Mine were somewhat degraded, but there was enough left to hold the connectors in the plugs, with the help of some electrical tape.


I always do a sweep of the stiffener plate when I've got wheels off. After 7000 miles on the new motor, including several 1000 mile road trips its sadly dirty down there, but I'm happy to say no leaks that I can see. I did find an injector clip just hanging out, which I recall are a pain to install.

[Fifty150hs]

Originally Posted by Henn28

Have been looking at a check brake lining warning for a couple weeks, which I thought was the rears due to the fact that they haven't been changed since 2016. They are fine however, but the rear brake wear sensor had broken (wire) and was triggering the cluster warning.


I knew the plastic was in terrible shape on the female plug ends and had ordered several previously, along with a few new connectors, just in case. I was able to work the connectors out of the old plugs, and/or break the old plugs up around the connectors and push them into new sockets, and install new brake wear sensors at the same time. Not a bad job, but I didn't realize the grey grommets around the connectors were separate pieces. Mine were somewhat degraded, but there was enough left to hold the connectors in the plugs, with the help of some electrical tape.


I always do a sweep of the stiffener plate when I've got wheels off. After 7000 miles on the new motor, including several 1000 mile road trips its sadly dirty down there, but I'm happy to say no leaks that I can see. I did find an injector clip just hanging out, which I recall are a pain to install.

That doesn't look like an injector clip. It looks like a bale for a coolant hose.

[wpoll]

Originally Posted by Fifty150hs

That doesn't look like an injector clip. It looks like a bale for a coolant hose.

+1 - was about to say the same thing.

[Henn28]

Originally Posted by Fifty150hs

That doesn't look like an injector clip. It looks like a bale for a coolant hose.

Great call! I'll take a look at all of them, but I wonder if it is left over from the one I blew roughly a year ago due to routing it incorrectly after the motor swap.

[Fifty150hs]

Originally Posted by Henn28

Great call! I'll take a look at all of them, but I wonder if it is left over from the one I blew roughly a year ago due to routing it incorrectly after the motor swap.

It's possible. The hoses don't like staying on with out the bale in place once the system gets pressurized.

[Henn28]

Originally Posted by Fifty150hs

It's possible. The hoses don't like staying on with out the bale in place once the system gets pressurized.

They also don’t like to stay in one piece when you route them incorrectly and they melt due to working their way too close to a manifold. Lots and lots of Zerex poured into this car in the first 2 months after the motor swap, between the hose issue and the belt shedding/overheating/radiator blowing drama.