German AWD

[kevin286]

Hey! Can you elaborate on the contraption for the injectors?

I wanted to flow accetone through the injectors, forward and reverse once I had the pintal caps and filters out of them.
There's a small section of gavanized pipe that I fill with accetone. I set the presure with an inline regulator ~30psi, then hook to my injector to be cleaned with short piece of fuel line (motorcycle type, automotive dissolved on me).
Open the a ball valve that lets pressurized fluid to the injector and use 12v push button to cycle the injector.

Ideally I'd have hooked it up to a micro so I could properly drive the injector at the right duty cycle and used an spare injector as an electrical fluid valve.. but this was quicker. Sometimes low tech wins

I'm glad I did this, found two injectors out of my pile that would not mist no matter how much cleaning. Even took them to a friend that had a ultrasonic. Still just squirt gun stream of of them.

[MT-Getto]

Wow dude! Nice

[kevin286]

Post man brought me this today.
2 days from CA by standard USPS... not bad. +1 for customer service from IE. Talk to Andrew if you do bidness with them, he's from here.

These will complete my brake lines. Found out yesterday my rear rotors have 1mm left before they're out of spec. oh well, 1mm till out is still IN spec

[MT-Getto]

Nice gloves

[kevin286]

Nice gloves

I don't know what you mean (where's the angel emoticon ?)

Did a little bit more today.

Finished up the rear brakes, fitting the 2 new ss soft lines where the subframe meets the chassis & put the rotors etc all back on.

I'm not sure if this is legit but I had to use my highlift jack handle as a cheater bar to get my lug bolts off so I put some copper anti seize on them.

Then I put on the front ss lines (before)

now with more shiny bits (after)


Also a super silly bit, and I'm kinda embarrassed, but the wheel has a spot for it so myswell.

Before

After



Lastly, since it was sunny for a few minutes and all 4 rubbers where on her I rolled her out and hosed off the dust.

[MT-Getto]

Looking sharp! The gloves in your photo have the shocker on them.

[kevin286]

Small update.
Installed new brake pad wear sensor. This is just a loop circuit between pass rear and driver front, that when the pad wears down, the wire wears through opening the circuit and lighting a friendly light on the dash.



Also got some soft fuel line for the return to tank as somehow the existing one got shorter between taking it off and now. I suspect I just routed the line differently, perhaps some OCD from my days running cat5.
I think I can see light at the end now. Just in time for good weather.

[kevin286]

Bleed the brakes and clutch tonight (same reservoir for both)

This, 1) because it's a cool color 2) because the bottle says "racing"

Made my catch bottle with some neodymium magnets taped to the side for easy positioning. Oh yeah, and those speed bleeders work frigg'n awesome. So sweet, why didn't I spend the 12bucks a long time ago.


Also added coolant, and temporarily connected the return fuel line. It's not permanent because I have a bracket that I'm pretty sure is supposed to have the fuel line attached to it, but I can't for the life of me remember where it goes. Does anyone on here have an E30 I can look at the engine?
Cranked her over and it runs, but won't drop below 3k RPM.

[MT-Getto]

Nice magnet bottle I'm sure you have already looked for a huge vacuum leak. Start pinching hoses?

[kevin286]

Nice magnet bottle I'm sure you have already looked for a huge vacuum leak. Start pinching hoses?

Yup. Part of the problem with doing a whole lot of work & changes is that I'm not sure if I screwed something up by one of the changes (larger injector for example) or if one of the pieces I damaged or didn't put back on exactly right .. TPS maybe (though I did score it before removal on on reinstall lined it up again)
Sometimes I wish for obd2..
I think I'll start at the idle control valve.