Joey's iS by JinormusJ

3 minute(s) of a 76 minute read

M10 power never sours

OFFICIALLY BEAT

Spent all of 3 hours today and all day yesterday running around the yards and house doing stuff for the swap/e30.

My transmission didn't have an output flange, but luckily a friend and I went uarding together and found a 5-speed with a flange that was ripe or the picking. We had to grind down a 30mm deep socket to fit in the tight clearances for the output lock nut, and on top of that, jam a huge beam into the pistons of the engine to stop the crank/tranny from moving so that I could put enough torque down to break the nut loose

20 minutes of WD-40 soak and 15 minutes of using my leg on a breaker bar; success

Spent 3 hours today cleaning the disgustingly dirty tranny. Aswell as replacing my output seal and slipping on the output flange and torquing down to 25 ft/m. Got most of the crud off, and put all my parts together (Garagistic pushing a, z3 shift kit, random bolts and nuts).

Redline 75w90 came in the mail for my 3.73 and Valvoline Dexron III ATF for the tranny (it has a red label).

Soldered up a crack in the reverse light wiring and got it ready to go

Also wired up some e36 switches the other night
Tomorrow I will be modding an early console to fit the e36 switches; still debating if I want to do this again, or delete the window breaker (wiring the wires together permenantly) completely.



Sorry, No pictures, so try to use your imagination
I was incredibly dirty, sue me

8-9-2013

5-speed swap done. Using this guide:
http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/show...8&postcount=15
I was able to make my swap plug and play. Cruise works, and after making a custom wire harness (the stock one broke) for my reverse light switch, Back-Up lights work too.

Replaced rear transmission seal with Elring
DO NOT MAKE THIS MISTAKE
Barring previous warnings about this seal I bought this anyway, and now my rear seal is still leaking 10-20 drops every trip. Ended up buying a new OEM dealer one, and a rear shifter shaft seal from BMW for $35. I know, its a lot, but its dealer parts and I've never heard anything go wrong with dealer tranny seals. Cant wait to toss this OE junk to the curb and drive this thing

Rear Tranny seal ordered
Shift Seal ordered
MT90 on its way too (Had 2/3 of a quart leftover from my last swap in the garage; just enough to get by by only ordering 1 new quart)


Looking for a local shop to do this work for me as I am not mechanically confident in this area, and would like to get it warrantied. Car is not being driven much in its current state, and is turning into the money pit so many e30s have known theirs to be