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| E21, E30 General discussion and technical help for 1975-1991 3 series cars. |
06-06-2005, 11:50 PM
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Name: witeshark
Title: Road Kill
Status: Offline
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Miami FL
Your Ride: 89 325i 5 speed
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E30 325i M20 head gasket
Well this was a fun day. On the way home car started over heating and I stop to cool and add coolant and water. Starts overheating again right away! So I add more -- but I get to thinking. what if it's the water pump? Then it hit me! Head gasket? OMFG there's water in the oil dipstick! Any ideas on the cost to fix??   Edit: turns out to be a cracked head!  |
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06-12-2005, 05:20 PM
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Name: witeshark
Title: Road Kill
Status: Offline
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Miami FL
Your Ride: 89 325i 5 speed
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Seems the shop where my car is found a head ready to go for $650. I guess I gotta do it, I am well committed on the car... |
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06-12-2005, 06:09 PM
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Name: Antiburn
Title: Senior Member
Status: Offline
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Jersey
Your Ride: 92 525, 88 325 hardtop'ed vert and 83 320iS
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Make sure that all the coolant passageways in the block are cleaned out with water and let time to dry or use a air gun to blow out the holes. Also you might wana throw some cheap oil in there and run it for about 30min driving. Drain the cheap oil and put it some good stuff. Just to make sure all the coolant is outa the oil. |
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06-12-2005, 06:18 PM
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Name: witeshark
Title: Road Kill
Status: Offline
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Miami FL
Your Ride: 89 325i 5 speed
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I appreciate that  |
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06-18-2005, 06:27 PM
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Name: witeshark
Title: Road Kill
Status: Offline
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Miami FL
Your Ride: 89 325i 5 speed
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Well the car was done yesterday. The shop dude kept it for testing until today. It was very expensive! But the car runs like new now and feels like it has amazing power. He told me to break it in like new, which I'm doing  |
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06-19-2005, 01:57 AM
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Name: komodo
Title: Administrator
Status: Offline
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Athens, GA
Your Ride: 1995 M3
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Originally Posted by witeshark
Well the car was done yesterday. The shop dude kept it for testing until today. It was very expensive! But the car runs like new now and feels like it has amazing power. He told me to break it in like new, which I'm doing |
That means keep the speed under 3 digits, right? That must be hard. haha
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