Well, it’s now ready:

Today’s activities were:

• Oil change
• New side indicator lights
• Gear selector light, red led
• New rear register plate lights (led)
• Fixing roof window seal with Sikaflex 521UV
• Some final paint job
• Voltage meter back-light changed to red led
• Trunk  upholstery reassembled
• Right front fender molding found from local scrapyard and installed (it was missing earlier)
• Alternator/water-pump belt and power steering belt tightened

What this car really needs are two set of alloys, since those normal rims are really ugly.  But that probably will be taken care of…

Tomorrow I will vacuum clean the interior quickly and then return to work with the camping trailer.

Maybe it was already the time to change those?

I have never before seen as tight fit for the new brake pads to brake caliber like this BMW had… If the pads would have been 0,5mm thicker they would not be possible to install. Before starting to install the new pads I cleaned all the surfaces from the caliber and the slider where the pads are touching with a file to avoid stiction (+polished and greased sliding tenons). They really needed to squeeze together until the outer pad slipped in to it’s place (almost uncomfortable much). But I guess that’s value for the money since there is now absolutely the maximum amount of wearing surface available.

Tasks for tomorrow:

• Oil change
• New side indicator lights
• Gear selector light (I might also change the voltage meter light to LED)
• New rear register plate lights
• Fixing roof window seal with Sikaflex 521UV
• Some final paint job

Friday I will assemble the trunk upholstery back and that’s it, BWM tune up for this summer is ready.

One thing I forgot to mention is that I installed modern Volvo windshield washing fluid nozzles to replace BMW original ones. I used the original ones adapter to fit the new ones by grinding them flat first and then carving proper hole for Volvo nozzes (which are slightly smaller). Reason for this change was that Volvo nozzles spray the water really nicely (only if you use original Volvo nozzles, the aftermarket ones will not work). The original BWM nozzles just peed the fluid with four pointy spouts and that’s pretty old fashion and lame way which does also cause extensive wear of the glass because the wipers are grinding it partly dry.

This is the starting situation:

And this much I needed to disassemble it:

But finally this was the end result:

Looks rather blingy already. 😉

Today the weather was much better and I was able to finish the metal work at the morning:

And primer paint before lunch break:

Next I will check the brakepads and start working with the head lamps.

This is the status today:

Unfortunately it was raining every now and then so the work was not progressing as much as I would have liked. But at least this is a good start.

Some rust:

I was already welding the first piece and half way of that it started to rain once again. Dammit.

Before continuing with the tractor I will make new front and back doors to my parents house:

I also planned to do a couple of upgrades to the camping trailer, but that should not take too long. This door project will take some days, but since it is also waiting for the paint to dry I can do those camping trailer upgrades meanwhile.