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

[sandbagger]

seems like these are in order

[EODguy]

Originally Posted by sandbagger

seems like these are in order

Although I am now more interested in this....

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[zhent]

Went on a little drive with my car club for some rolling shots yesterday and took my E53.


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[Happy]

Originally Posted by zhent

Went on a little drive with my car club for some rolling shots yesterday and took my E53.

Without a doubt, that is one of my most favorite of vehicles!


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[EODguy]

So since Christmas week I have had to replace my alternator, battery and pulley.

I then did all oil, air filters and even checked the valve body/solenoids.

I believe it's safer that my wife thinks I work in a whorehouse than spending (more) time on the White Witch...

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[PropellerHead]

I have a 49" curved monitor with a 2nd flat panel display. I literally have ZERO idea WTF these hyoog-ass pictures are supposed to show.

[EODguy]

Originally Posted by PropellerHead

I have a 49" curved monitor with a 2nd flat panel display. I literally have ZERO idea WTF these hyoog-ass pictures are supposed to show.

They are huge ass pictures of the work/parts..

I am now your excuse for buying a 60" monitor.

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[guntherrex]

[nick325xit 5spd]

Finally got to the oil pan.

It was spraying oil out along the entire perimeter, so it was *very much* time.

The oil pan job was really easy, with two hiccups:

1) I discovered that the BMW-B90 wheel bearing tool does not include large enough bearing adapters to get the front wheel bearings out. (With a little bit of ingenuity and shims, you can use it to get the hub out, though.) Had to run to Harbor Fright and buy their wheel bearing tool. Do not recommend. The threaded shaft stripped halfway into the job, and I had to finish installing the bearing with the B90. I'll be returning the HF tool and buying more parts for the B90. The X5 front wheel bearing is 90mm! In comparison, my E90 M3 rear wheel bearing is 85mm!

2) I'm finally sick of fighting with axles that are tight in the hubs. Years ago I bought an axle pulling tool that works in E30s. It was brilliant, but, of course, limited to dinky axles. I finally discovered this actually really reasonably priced tool set that would have saved me a couple hours of fighting and insta-ordered: https://www.turnermotorsport.com/p-5...ian-autosport/

Hopefully it's no longer leaking! Also, the engine is noticeably quieter and smoother with the new engine mounts. The old ones looked basically fine, but were a quarter inch shorter. I'll have to go back and do the RF wheel bearing - I ran out of time thanks to tool failure.

Not too many outstanding items at this point. Trans mount, diff bushings, rear wheel hubs, basically. (Wheel hubs don't explicitly need doing, but if I have the axles out for the diff bushings, I'll just do them.)

[Henn28]

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.