Eddie914-3.2, 3rd Charm or Strike Options

[sixnotfour]

Its only 1 hour away the guy says, Well 2 hours later 4 hours of BS and another 2 hour drive home Eddie now owns this.
Good deal (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/idea.gif) Lets just say "everything is negotiable"
Final delivery charges may apply (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/happy11.gif)

[Eddie914]

Jeff,

You ... are ... the ... man!

This engine is so beautiful with the Webers, that it might be a shame to install the DME. ITBs?

Instead of getting that beautiful 3.2 in the teener, I worked most of this evening on ... one measily pilot bearing ... in a BMW.

The tranny in my daily driver puked big time ... lay shaft bearings bought the farm! Cheap POS BMW! It had just turned over 300,000 miles three days earlier. Only 300,000 miles?

The last clutch that was installed by one of the previous owners had no grease on the clutch splines ... ugly! Lots of rust dust everywhere. The disk still had 75% lining! No wonder it was squealing on engagement.

I decided to be thorough and replace the pilot bearing. I even rented a nice bearing puller so I thought it would be a five-minute job.

The puller just would not get a bite on the inner race. I tried many, many times. I even filed the jaws to get a better fit. I wedged a screwdriver between the jaws. I tried driving the bearing in farther just to break it loose. No Go! I even got out the trusty slide-hammer and pounded on the POS for a few minutes. Nadda! I tried drilling the outer race to relieve the tension … broke three or four of my new drill bits! Yup. It’s nearly inpossible to drill hardened bearing races.

I was almost out of ideas. This bearing was installed pretty deep into the crank. I thought that if the inner race was removed, the new bearing could be installed in front of the old bearing. I took a screwdriver and a hammer and pounded out the ball cage. After moving all the balls to one side the inner race popped out! Just for giggles, I tried to pull the outer race with the bearing puller one more time. The jaws now had a much better bite and the outer race slowly started to inch out. More than two hours! What a waste of time!

What’s ironic is that after 300k this car was leaking almost as much as my clapped out 2.7 in the 914/6. There was oil everywhere except where it was really needed!

Since I’m a glutton for punishment, I tried pulling a pilot bearing in an old rusty BMW 535I crank in the back of the garage. The rented puller had the nasty rusted pilot bearing out in practically no time.

Go figure.

I got to get the daily driver out of the garage so I can get that sweet new engine in the teener.

Eddie