Joey's iS by JinormusJ

5 minute(s) of a 76 minute read

Finally got to sit down and finish work on this little guy.
Friday I officially started to fix my heater problems; everything went swell expect for the fact I didn't buy new o-rings, so my pipes started to leak

For ANYONE buying parts in California, Patrick at BMA Auto never fails to come through.

Got my O-rings in today; fixed those leaks, even got my new resistor in on my blower motor; tried to tackle my heater bypass; those tubes are destroyed; gonna order new OEM ones after the holidays.

Anyone know where 1 and 2 go on the engine?

12-29-2012

New hoses arrived the other day; after messing around and playing them like a didgeridoo, I put them away in wait for the weather to clear up

Looking over some past discussion here on the boards, I think I'm ready to tackle the bypass mess the PO left for me.
As a side note, and for future reference by me and anyone else that may be looking on this thread: the spider hose goes to the top, where the valve is connected, the head flow hose goes to the bottom, which is the pipe without a valve. Switching these will give you permanent heat, even with the temp gauge on cool. Spider hose (#2) connects to the thermostat housing, the flow hose (#1) connects to the head near the firewall

So, final notes
SPIDER TOP
HEAD BOTTOM

12-30-2012

So it was about a week in the making, starting, then stopping to order new parts, then starting, then stopping again, but eventually I finished the heater and blower problem in the e30!


First, EVERYTHING must come out!



Exposed heater core



Valve and piping (This was before new o-rings; as you can see by the drops of water from the pipes and on the carpet)



After giving up on the heater core for the meantime while my o-rings arrived, I worked on the hood latch as that was completely broken. Threw away the old one without taking a pic


Once the O-rings arrived a la BMA Auto, I installed those and my heater core was leak free. Replaced the fuse for my valve and everything was operating smoothly (no pictures of that progress as that would essentially be more of the same lol)



Decided to finally tackle this baby. As you can see the small metal elbow pipe next to the booster; AKA ghetto-fabulous heater FA-RAZE bypass





Decided to take things slow and take the whole connection out including the spider hose, just to kinda get a better idea of how the coolant lines operate
As you can see, and what I will explain to you in just a moment, I ordered the wrong hoses. I, at first, thought the whole ensemble pictures earlier was the complete bypass (because in my defense, it looks really ghetto, and RealOEM confused me with the schematic). Honestly, the thought that the coolant does need some sort of a bypass line (the midget looking hose connected the the bigger hoses by means of fork bypasses) for when the heater isn't on and the valve is closed didn't even cross my mind. I am a silly man.
On top of that, I even ordered the wrong spider hose. Luckily, the old hoses were still pretty new, and I only ordered new ones because I thought I had the wrong ones. $25 down, but whatevs



Luckily, my buddy John with his 88 325is and another e30 guy guy named Abel with his 4-door Bronzit showed up and helped me out a bit; we shot the breeze, and afterward I helped change their oil and give them some e30 pointers while i checked at John's heater hose setup and they watched me work. Swag swag swag


Headbutting the intake manifold trying to take the coolant drain plug off
#excellentidea  



FINISHED!!!



Enjoying the heat after a nice long day of getting yelled at by dealerships, thermostats, coolant, hoses, oil, and SF drive til 5AM last night