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

[luvmy03E53]

Originally Posted by Ricky Bobby

ORIGINAL CCV is out, dated 9/7/2003.

Welcome to the club, Jay!

[Ricky Bobby]

Originally Posted by luvmy03E53

Welcome to the club, Jay!

Not a fun job at all Gary, you weren't kidding. Although the dreaded "twist lock hose" actually wasn't too tough at all, tougher to get it into position than anything.

Probably the bulk of my delay on completing the job was trying to get the new cold weather dipstick guide tube and new O-ring seated back in the pan, "a light push into the pan" doesnt cut it, fitment is TIGHT with that O-ring.

I ended up having to mini-sledge on the bolt bracket to get it in all the way and lined up with the bolt bracket on the engine block.

Then I spent another 45 mins making sure I had all my plugs right and plugged in so I wouldn't get any funky codes at startup.

Including cleaning the throttle body, total time of disassembly and reassembly was approx 5.5 hours, but then again I take my time and try to be as thorough as possible, and of course I dropped a couple of screws and sockets along the way lol!

After sweating over my engine bay all weekend I treated her to a thorough degreasing and dressing when I was done, I'll post a pic later.

[srmmmm]

Glad to hear you got that done RB How was your "mayo" situation? You'll sleep easier for a while now.

2002 X5 3.0 258,700 miles
2004 325i 114,000 miles

[Ricky Bobby]

Originally Posted by srmmmm

Glad to hear you got that done RB How was your "mayo" situation? You'll sleep easier for a while now.

2002 X5 3.0 258,700 miles
2004 325i 114,000 miles

Happy to report ZERO mayo under the oil cap, ZERO mayo coming out of the dripping hoses as well, although you could tell there has been 11 years of burned up oil residue in there. I'm sure I burned out any of the crazy gunk lately as I have been doing a lot more long trips, we recently did a 200 mile stint at 80 mph so its fairly clean. Dare I say it idles a little smoother as well?

As well, I only have had to add a half quart of oil since November, which is pretty good! I'm hoping that with my Rotella T6 and new CCV my oil consumption will be next to nothing from here on out.

[e30cabrio]

Bought this!

http://www.xoutpost.com/classifieds/...jl-woofer.html

[itscoo2pyopants]

Over the weekend i installed a MTX 9500 in a ported box with a Hifonics amp mounted where the stock subwoofer enclosure used to live. Install was pretty straight forward

[Jungerishere]

Busy today on upgrading my X. Install 4.8is rear flares and bumper valance. Purchased flares from TwinTurboGTR. He went out of his way to pick and ship all the parts I needed. Thanks! Added 25 mm H&R spacers. Added reverse camera. I though about placing the camera in the center of the trunk emblem but decided on the license plate.

[puddinboo]

looking good

[mgbmwx5]

Jungerishere, very nice install.

[imalabil]

Decided NOT to do my tension arm bushings after finding the HF 12 ton puller was really too big to get a grip on the thrust arm. I've used a local alignment and suspension shop for things over the years - including replacement of the tension arm bushings 2 years ago - so I'll have him do it.

One question - do you just force the larger OD flange of the Powerflex bushing through the tension arm hole? Every other bushing I've seen in this type of application has been split, but this is one piece. Does the flange compress enough?

Also noticed another thing that needs fixing (isn't there always something), the headlight leveler has lost whatever it's attached to. Still works when I manually move the arm, but hole is broken out over a portion of it's circumference.