'88 BMW E24 635CSi Highline

[Jorge]

Few more photos, boring but look kinda cool.

I made some inroads yesterday to completing this. But yet again tiny setbacks costing me time.

Marked out the supplied top mounts for cutting down to size.


Eating my way through cutting discs, chopped down the the top mounts roughly. You don't see them anyway.



Took a flap wheel to the edges to smooth it off somewhat.


Work out where the holes needed to be, from where I thought they should be. Terrible mistake on my part. Wiggle around a drill bit until its right.


Using a socket and a vice, due to the lack of a press, force the studs into place.



Complete, odd, mishapen top mounts. That don't fit perfectly, and the studs probably did need pressing as half came loose. Leaving me in a very tough situation with regards to trying to fit them....




Fronts are on, need to do the airlines, and put caliper back on as well as tighten all the bolts. I haven't done the ARB droplink yet. That can wait. I'm getting impatient.

Rears are a cunt. Plain and simple. No room above the mount to get your hand, one side top mount is fitted and tried to fit the strut to that, failing, otherside, strut is fitted to top mount, top mount goes to be fitted, two studs come loose. One stud is holding it in place at the moment whilst the others just spin.

Also the holes for the airlines were like 2mm too high. I need to learn the whole measure twice cut once thing. So thats an arse ache of filing to get it lower down.

All in all, progress, yet slow. Fingers crossed today.

[Anonymoose]

Get some mounts cut by a machinist and get them to drill and press the studs in, they're cheap for jobs like that, attach the strut to the top mount then install to car no? Why you doing it separate?

[Jorge]

Cos once top mount is on strut, you cant see bottom of the studs.

Yeah future change will be that, nice and neat. All needs to come off for painting soon, just need it moving.

[stinkinrich]

Wish I could be there to fucking help man.

[Nuts]

Great progress bud, loving it.

[Jorge]

I decided to 'learn' to weld yesterday. After being told how to turn on the machine by text, I thought why not try weld in the studs which are causing me an utter headache.

This was the outcome.

Welding?

I lol'd. It was gasless, which I'm blaming. Would have been perfect without that.

I decided,after wasting a good 5 hours on the 'new' top mounts to 'modify' the originals. I ground down the sides of it to start with, then ground off the top of the mounting hole. This made it thinner, next I burnt out the rubber bushing. It fits, with the supplied rubbed coated Airlift washer it works, just. Will do until I get a machine shop to do things properly for me. I got one side fully fitted, with only minor airleaks. One of which is from the braided leader hose. It can't physically be tightened anymore, and it has a shit load of PTFE tape on, so I don't know what to do there. Losing about 1PSI every 20 seconds.

[stinkinrich]

Honestly dont know what to suggest about the leaky fittings

[Jorge]

More tape is all I can think of. It has two layers of it at the minute, and the more annoying thing is, as you turn it, it increases or decreases the amount it is leaking. Not a perfect thread. Also it is fucking annoying as it is fixed both ends. So tightening adds twists to the hose.

[stinkinrich]

Cant you lose the twists through the air hose in or under the car wherever you've run them?

[Jorge]

I have done , the air hose connects through bodywork into footwell, the connector otherside spins when the plastic airline is disconnected

[stinkinrich]

Ok. Hows it going?

[Ryal.]

i think i remember seeing your red one from bigcoupe.

Clean car dood hope you get the air squared away soon. These boats are too pretty to have em riding like trucks if you go static.

[Jorge]

They're too floaty to worry about the ride on bags anyway. Thanks man

[Khalil]

The studs to the top mounts almost made me shoot myself haha
Nice job welding them dude

[Alex@BagRiders]

If you're still having issues with leaks, you should take all of the tape off of the fitting and start fresh. Do three wraps and don't over tighten or else you risk stripping threads.