Very cool find! I love a good junkyard crawl!

What coolant pipe is leaking on a 3.0?

The two under the intake manifold. Hard lines that fail often apparently, but I’ve never had an issue with them on my E46s. Rest of the cooling system is done too


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Good on you, brother to keep that X out of the junkyard. Love seeing your progress pics!:thumbup:

I'm having a hard time right now NOT picking up an 85k mile 4.8is e53 that is definitely going to the junk yard if I don't buy it. My problem is that I don't have a garage to keep it in while I slowly get it back on the road.

Sucks to see those X's in the yard...

Anyone have any idea how to r move the manual shift boot? I want to take it off as it’s peeling off in the picture and https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ad5d2ea93a.jpg
It’s fighting me very hard.


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I want to figure out how to design something similar to the X5LM’s. Mine is unglued as well.

If it uses a similar frame as the automatic...

Use a trim tool and pop the ring frame out starting with the flathead looking cutout and pry up each 2 finger clip around the perimeter. Once that's done a heat gun should release the glue bonding the leather to the plastic ring frame.

I will say that the ring frames are flimsy as hell as you can see where I broke it from the old shifter. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...bf96e59999.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...07b31e53e2.jpg

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