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1:36

Test the Fuel Pressure

4:59

Siemens Fuel Injectors

9:07

Remove the Headlight

11:40

Reinstall the Headlight

17:12

The Sway Bar Bushings

19:20

Rear Control Arms

22:38

Brakes

28:22

Steering Wheel

31:42

Rear Window

33:01

Removing the Tint

33:30

Replace the Supercharger Belt

34:51

Bottom Engine Cover

42:49

Suspension

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alfa romeo

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coming up my head becomes fashionable

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let's talk about my hat for a minute we

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smoke up the alpena

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and the test drive ends well

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we have a knock

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[Music]

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buenos dias and welcome to the seventh

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installment of project chicago over the

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last few episodes we fully rebuilt this

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engine put it back in and then in the

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previous one we started it it sounds

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glorious it works glorious i'm happy

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you're happy everybody's happy however

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there is one slight issue the android

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takes a bit longer now to start you

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might have noticed the long crank thing

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in the previous episode when the engine

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was still warm and we replaced the oil

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now we're gonna troubleshoot that and

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once we figure it out we're gonna

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prepare it for its first drive down the

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autobahn the engine is brand new we need

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to take it for a test drive see how it

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feels break it in

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and i'm actually quite excited for that

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so

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let's dive in all right my friends i've

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been struggling like crazy to figure out

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what the issue is with the car with the

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long cranking and then eventually

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starting

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so it happens pretty much all the time

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if the car sits overnight and i come in

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the morning it's completely cold i press

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the button it takes about five to ten

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seconds for it to start and it's a

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really rough start it sputters into life

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and then it works perfectly fine

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then if i try to restart it immediately

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it starts brilliantly no issues

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whatsoever starts within a second but if

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i leave it to sit for about 15 minutes

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or so and then try to press the button

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same deal cranks for very long time and

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then eventually starts so i started

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suspecting something with the fuel

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pressure so my first

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task was to test the fuel pressure at

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the rail there's a valve here so i

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connected the fuel pressure gauge

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and i can build fuel pressure with my

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laptop 3.5 bar and according to bmw

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repair manual it should stay around that

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number for extended period of time and

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if it drops below

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more than 0.2 bar then we have an issue

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and it did drop to about 2.8 within like

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five minutes or so

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so next thing i did is i clamped off

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this feed hose here and this fuel rail

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doesn't have a return so the return line

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is actually in the fuel filter so i

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clamped it off here and basically made a

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closed circuit

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and the fuel pressure would still drop

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so that pretty much told me that we have

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an issue here and most likely with the

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fuel injectors so what i did now is

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i removed bank two fuel rail

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and i build fuel pressure with my laptop

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3.5 bar

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and then i wiped clean the tips of the

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fuel injectors with a clean paper towel

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and now if i take this dry paper towel

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this i mean look at that you can already

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see that they're dripping like crazy so

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if i take this clean paper towel and i

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put it on the tip of the fuel injector

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they are leaking

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all of them

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every single one injector is leaking at

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least on this rail here

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so they are leaking ever so slightly not

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a lot to the point where they will lock

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up the engine thankfully but obviously

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when the car sits for

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20 minutes this is going to fill up the

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combustion chamber and it's going to be

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flooded and it's going to sputter until

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it cleans up all of that and then

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eventually starts and there is also a

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small puff of smoke coming at the

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exhaust that smells fuelish-like so this

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is the issue the injectors that i sent

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for cleaning were fine when they were

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tested

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but as the car was running i guess they

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didn't like that cleaning and now

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they're ruined because

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evidently they are leaking to be honest

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in the first place i'm not a big fan of

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cleaning fuel injectors whenever i see

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an opportunity to buy new ones for

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example like on e31 new injectors are

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350 euro for all 12 of them no brainer

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buying brand new

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on the e60 m5 all 10 injectors i bought

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them brand new because also they didn't

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want to mess around with cleaning i

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think they were around 400 500 euro

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original bosch buy a brand new done but

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on this particular engine the main

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reason why i sent the fuel injectors for

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cleaning is i wanted to be sure that

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they're good look it's leaking even

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right now

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that they're good that they're not gonna

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not gonna do any damage to the brand new

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engine

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and brand new ones they cost 200 euros

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each times eight one thousand six

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hundred euro

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so that's why i sent them for cleaning i

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thought that's going to be better i'm

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going to know that they're good i'm

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going to have results and whatever and

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obviously they worked fine on the first

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start but as they started working more

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and more on the second start i started

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having issue with these so i'm going to

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go and see what's the best price i can

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get for these inductors now i'm going to

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start pulling out the old injectors

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pull up

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there we are

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say hello to brand new fuel injectors i

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was wrong they're not 200 euros each

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they're around 140.

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and danielle from outer house malcolm's

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again made me a nice offer and i paid

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962 euros for eight of these which is

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still absurdly expensive but what can

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you do these are siemens fuel injectors

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which i absolutely hate now and i did

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try to find them as aftermarket oe

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no dice these are alpina specific and

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you can only get them from the dealer so

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let's put them in and hopefully this

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fixes our issue a little bit of

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lubrication

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very good

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all right let's pop them in

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okay

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so now it's just a matter of putting

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everything back together

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all these wires and stuff all right now

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we can fire up the laptop first we're

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going to clear all the codes and then

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we're going to reset the voltronic

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adaptations continue

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that's it now we're going to manually

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run the fuel pump and you can build fuel

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pressure

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there it is

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now we're going to start it again i'm

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not sure if it's going to start properly

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from the first try

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because there's probably some residual

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fuel in the cylinders

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but let's see

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all right it started a lot quicker

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it was running a bit rough for a couple

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of seconds

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probably burning off all of that fuel

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and

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getting used to life again

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so now i'm gonna let it run for a little

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while

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get it nice and warm then we're gonna

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shut it down wait 20 minutes and then

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try to start it again before it would

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take five to ten seconds of cranking

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before it starts but if now it starts

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immediately then we know the tissue is

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solved

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alrighty it's been 25 minutes let's see

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what it says now

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oh yes

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she's back

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really nice by the way i'm never ever

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again sending these modern newer type of

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fuel injectors for cleaning they just

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don't like it and thankfully we caught

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this in time if i actually went for a

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test drive with leaking injectors it

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would destroy this brand new engine it

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would wash out the cylinders score them

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melt the pistons lock up the engine it

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would just be

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a huge disaster so it's just not worth

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taking that risk it's a brand new day

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let's hear that cold start

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oh yes

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that is a lovely cold start no smoke

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just sounds good so the long crank issue

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has officially been resolved also off

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camera i replaced the oil because that

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oil was contaminated with fuel from the

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leaking injectors so we have fresh oil

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in it

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and now we're gonna do the front end of

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the car

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in this massive box

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is the

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shroud thing support

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for the oil cooler

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i had to wait two weeks to get this part

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150 bucks

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well european shillings fancy piece of

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plastic of course he has stamped alpina

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on the side just so you know it's for

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the alpena is there anything else in

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there

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chocolate maybe

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now

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surely this is going to be fun surely

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let's start by removing this thing here

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[Applause]

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i think

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i'm not going to have to remove the

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intercooler because if i do

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i'm going to lose it

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whoa we'll need to disconnect the

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power string cooler it looks kind of

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well not pretty and i didn't want to buy

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a new one but of course it's alpina

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specific and it cost million euros so i

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didn't

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plug it plug it plug it quickly

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yes

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i think we should be able to swing it

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out of the way now

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how do we get to you sir well shy seman

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okay bros if we're going to remove the

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headlight

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oh yeah

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thank you for loosing this clamp here i

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might be able to pull it ever so

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slightly

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yes

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that's all of the screws on this side

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see

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completamente loose

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did i i did miss one more

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ah that's all the screws removed

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oh

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expertly done

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lovely so that's what's left of the old

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bracketry

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here's the one

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slide in the condenser

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why no sliding action

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all right i'll be

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back i'll need to shave that off perfect

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a few filing moments later

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do we have fitment now

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i am not in the mood for more filing fit

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i know we'll use force

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there you go that's fitment

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i need three hands now

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slide

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yes look at that it fits

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oh i see they didn't leave holes here

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what

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they didn't drill the holes here well

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there you have it you pay 150 european

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shillings for a piece of plastic from

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lupina and i can't even bother to drill

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the holes here i mean what's up with

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that that's worth at least 20 euros off

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anyway

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all right let's see

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how the cooler attaches now

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it appears we need bolts

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well that's bigger than 10 what

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it's 11.

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i think i ever used 11 socket in my life

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beautiful

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that's

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lovely and firmly in place

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that's clean

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so now i need to drill some holes

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because alpena oh no my drill can't

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reach so i'm going to use a self tapper

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to get the hole going

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and that's both of them in place

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time to reinstall the headlight and

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we're going to be back here

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in the next episode

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because we got to install brand new

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european headlights then we'll do a spot

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of cleaning as well of course

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front bumper support i'm gonna remember

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where what goes where does what's that i

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think this contraption goes in first

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i don't remember it was

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many moons ago

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okay

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rip the glove

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you piece of

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engineering marvel

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oh

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i'm missing the thing here where is it

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ha found it

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i was wondering where that goes

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oh what a fitment this is

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[Music]

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okay what's

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what's going on

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let's just do that later

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oh i see

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wrong goal oh the headlight really

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should be removed for this

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but force will do

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look at that actually esperante so this

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needs to go in here yes a little bit of

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kungfu fighting

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give it a nice twist

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there are these covers and couple of

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more bolts that go in the back we're

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gonna do that later because the

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headlights and the bumper need to come

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out anyway in the next episode so i'm

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not gonna bother with that now

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it's through nice it had like washers

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that's the front bumper carrier

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installed

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so

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sure

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i'll take sausage thank you very much

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deliciously crispy alpena bumper going

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back but hey it's not cracked anywhere

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on the inside it hasn't been patched or

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anything like that

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oh no

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swipe bolts here

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and just like that it has a face again

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i'm gonna quickly throw in the brake

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ducting

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all right with that now i can start

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doing the suspension suspension time if

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you remember from the inspection video

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lower control arms in the front are shot

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both control arms in the back are shot

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as well ball joints have a ton of play

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sway bar links are shot and well added

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we're gonna do sway bar bushings and

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these are all oe lanforda parts made in

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deutschland

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so you need magic beans to open the

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wheel caps

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now you need a la javis to do that

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[Music]

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the tires are brand new the only

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annoying thing is the front are

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continental and the back is michelin

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[Applause]

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we're going to start with the control

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arms first

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first the bulging

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breaker bar

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the bushing side is already loose

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i did that when we were removing the

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subframe

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so the bulge is not that great either so

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the bushing is completely shot most

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likely original control arm this is how

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a fresh ball joint should be

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nice and firm

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so the bushing bolt as always just

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finger tight

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then we're going to lower the car on the

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ground drive it back and forth and do

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the final torque if you torque it all

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the way now

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this pushing is gonna twist when you

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lower the suspension down and it's gonna

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wear out really quickly

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so no matter what car

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what brand if you're dealing with rubber

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bushings always fork

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with the car on the ground

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now we can unbolt the sway bar

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not great but not too bad

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and on the other side the boot is torn

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pay attention there's l stamped on the

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sway bar length as in left

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so the torque spec is 20 millimeters and

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then 90 degree angle

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never seen that on a sway bar link

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before

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but that's what the repair manual says

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and that's what shall we do

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now we're going to do the sway bar

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bushings

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and this car has dynamic drive which

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means active sway bar

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pretty cool stuff

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ah

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that's the bracket removed

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and now i can remove the bushing this is

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a bearing

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oh it doesn't feel too bad there are

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pair manual sets to keep everything

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oil and grease free

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clean the bracket as well

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new bushing

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and that's the left side done

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this control arm was replaced by someone

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and it looks good the bushing is good

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here the ball joint is good

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the tie rods they have no place so i'm

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going to leave that b as well

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and now we're going to copy paste on the

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other side so we're going to replace the

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zip tie here

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with a proper clamp

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and we did check the steam rack

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it didn't have any leaks

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and it doesn't residual stuff that drips

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from above give it a little bit more

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grease there

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it's nice and firmly in place

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all right reinstall both of the caps

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that we're missing here on the brake

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calipers

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and that's this side done as well

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we'll torque the front bushings later

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now we're going to do the rear control

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arms

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[Applause]

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so i just checked in order to replace

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the research bar bushings you need to

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drop the entire subframe

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so we're not gonna do that the bushings

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don't even look that bad so there you

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have it alpena springs are actually

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eibach springs

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so this is the guide link also used for

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alignment so we need to mark that bolt

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over there the ball joint is completely

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shot the rubber is just gone

00:19:48

and then this one here as well

00:19:50

so let's first start with the bigger one

00:20:02

and unclip

00:20:04

the wiring here

00:20:09

i'm going to undo the ball joint

00:20:14

[Applause]

00:20:15

i'm spinning the ball joint

00:20:18

which you shouldn't do if you're using

00:20:19

said ball joint but

00:20:21

you're replacing the whole thing

00:20:24

and this is faster

00:20:28

now the bolt should come out easily

00:20:31

and it sure

00:20:32

does

00:20:34

so that's one control arm out

00:20:37

and this ball joint

00:20:39

had a ton of play here's a new one i

00:20:41

also transferred the plastic bracket

00:20:44

and now we can install it

00:20:48

now you're going to hold the ball joint

00:20:49

stop it from spinning

00:20:51

and slowly

00:20:53

do up the nut

00:20:57

165 and for the bushing side

00:21:00

finger tight and final torque with the

00:21:02

car on the ground

00:21:04

so this here is an eccentric millionaire

00:21:06

eccentric bolt

00:21:08

used for alignment

00:21:11

so we're going to clean it and mark its

00:21:12

position so we can put it back exactly

00:21:14

where it was the car is going to get

00:21:16

alignment regardless but we need to get

00:21:18

it

00:21:19

back to where it was otherwise it's

00:21:20

going to drive all over the place and

00:21:22

you won't be able to drive it to the

00:21:24

alignment shop let alone the test drive

00:21:40

um

00:21:45

don't forget about the washer

00:21:48

nice and short

00:21:57

so i can use my chicken foot extension

00:21:59

here

00:22:01

and torque the bulge into spec

00:22:06

torqued now i'm going to do the sway bar

00:22:08

link

00:22:18

the rubber is starting to separate on

00:22:19

this one the locking clip is gone

00:22:23

so these wouldn't last long anyway but

00:22:25

these are beefy swear by links

00:22:36

good that's this side done

00:22:38

the brakes are actually good at least

00:22:40

the disc we just need to drive it and

00:22:42

clean up the surface rust the pads are

00:22:44

low though

00:22:45

and if i measure the disc

00:22:50

so maximum thickness is 24

00:22:52

millimeters this one is

00:22:55

slightly below 24 23 and a half

00:22:59

and minimum is 22.4 so the disc is good

00:23:03

and i'm going to order some new pads and

00:23:05

we're going to install that in the next

00:23:06

episode

00:23:15

now we're going to drive it back and

00:23:16

forth for the suspension to settle and

00:23:18

then torque the bushings

00:23:20

let's hear that cold start again

00:23:36

[Music]

00:23:38

so the thrust control arm bushings are

00:23:40

torqued to 100 meters and then 90 degree

00:23:42

angle unfortunately a torque wrench

00:23:45

can't fit in here you're always supposed

00:23:48

to torque by the nut and knot is on this

00:23:50

side and because of the sway bar and the

00:23:51

subframe there's no chance you can fit a

00:23:53

torque wrench here not even my digital

00:23:55

one so i'm gonna go by hand and just get

00:23:58

it as tight as i can

00:24:00

so nice and

00:24:02

tight like that

00:24:09

that should do it

00:24:16

my angle torque wrench keeps giving me

00:24:18

an error too much torque for it so we

00:24:20

got to do that by hand so now we're

00:24:21

going to do a 90 degree angle plus minus

00:24:23

15. so something

00:24:25

till end of the

00:24:27

lift there

00:24:37

that should do it

00:24:38

around 90.

00:24:48

perfect so my digital torque wrench only

00:24:51

goes up to 100 so i'm gonna try 95 and

00:24:54

then i'll do

00:24:56

one more twist by hand

00:25:00

that was 95

00:25:05

that should do it

00:25:07

now the guide link

00:25:09

we need to line up the bolt with our

00:25:11

marks

00:25:18

that's everything torqued and we are

00:25:20

done with the suspension now let's take

00:25:22

this party outside

00:25:40

you can almost taste the power i just

00:25:42

want to drive it a little bit just to

00:25:43

make sure

00:25:45

there are no knocking sounds or anything

00:25:47

unusual and that we can actually drive

00:25:49

this car

00:25:50

on the street

00:25:57

yeah suspension feels good

00:26:01

project chicago is clean for the first

00:26:03

time in my ownership

00:26:06

from afar it doesn't look too bad but

00:26:08

you come up close and

00:26:10

since it's all nice and clean let's talk

00:26:12

about the exterior

00:26:13

body condition wise it's not too bad no

00:26:16

major damage but from detailing

00:26:18

perspective it's horrible it's like

00:26:20

someone washed this car with rocks

00:26:22

there's scratches and swirls all over

00:26:24

the place i mean look at that

00:26:26

the hood as well it's horrible and the

00:26:29

paint is mostly original mine is the

00:26:31

hood and that needs to be wet sanded and

00:26:33

polished because the finish is a bit

00:26:35

orange peely that rear door over there

00:26:37

has been repainted

00:26:39

and i don't know if you can tell on the

00:26:40

camera but the finish is slightly off

00:26:42

and i think that's mainly due to the

00:26:44

fact that that's old original paint and

00:26:45

that's new so with paint correction

00:26:47

hopefully that will match up if not it's

00:26:49

going to drive me nuts

00:26:51

the rims in horrible state i'm going to

00:26:53

have them refinished the smear it's

00:26:55

after market which means it doesn't have

00:26:57

the power folding function the heating

00:26:59

and electrochrome but most importantly

00:27:02

this base should be glossy black like

00:27:04

the rest of the trim so i bought one in

00:27:07

poland i'm waiting for that to come in a

00:27:09

couple of days and hopefully it'll work

00:27:11

out because it's from a right-hand drive

00:27:12

car minor scratches everywhere most of

00:27:15

that will come out because it's not too

00:27:17

deep unfortunately this one here is too

00:27:19

deep and that's going to come out about

00:27:22

90 so it's not gonna be too bad we need

00:27:24

pdr

00:27:25

there's slight damage here hopefully it

00:27:27

can be pulled out taillights

00:27:29

horrible state we're gonna replace that

00:27:31

this one is cracked low on blinker fluid

00:27:33

the rear bumper unfortunately has three

00:27:36

massive dents here here and here

00:27:40

the rest of it it's not in too bad of a

00:27:42

shape but i think i'm gonna have that

00:27:43

repainted as well

00:27:45

this side it's pretty much the same

00:27:46

story as the other one needs pdr and

00:27:49

paid correction but it's all original

00:27:51

paint and look at this hood

00:27:54

man boys from geon are gonna have their

00:27:56

work cut out with this car and it's a

00:27:58

massive car it's gonna take an insane

00:28:00

amount of hours to polish it headlights

00:28:02

we're going to replace that in the next

00:28:03

episode oh the front bumper was

00:28:05

repainted as well but you can't really

00:28:07

tell that unless you taste it

00:28:09

the grilles we're going to replace that

00:28:11

in the next episode as well

00:28:13

and the front end does look cool with

00:28:14

the alpina lip over there well bumper

00:28:17

and you can see all of the coolers there

00:28:19

and stuff that looks pretty cool

00:28:20

exterior just needs a good cleaning

00:28:23

the steering wheel is going to be

00:28:24

refinished by alpena back to original

00:28:26

condition 359 euro i hate this steering

00:28:30

wheel so much it's the ugliest steering

00:28:32

wheel the bmw ever made but that's what

00:28:34

this car originally came with i'm still

00:28:36

looking for a nice set of wood trim for

00:28:39

the interior and this pickup stock here

00:28:41

needs to be replaced but otherwise nice

00:28:44

interior

00:28:46

let's talk about my hat for a minute

00:28:48

i mean tint i think i already mentioned

00:28:51

this but i don't like tint

00:28:53

unless it's some really light subtle

00:28:54

tint that actually improves the look of

00:28:56

the car i can be on board with that but

00:28:59

the whole gangsta like i'm trying to

00:29:01

hide something look just doesn't work

00:29:03

for me i know this is very much a matter

00:29:05

of personal taste but with hint also

00:29:07

comes functionality so if you live in

00:29:09

las vegas dubai or texas where this car

00:29:12

used to live you need to have the tint

00:29:15

otherwise you and the interior are just

00:29:16

going to cook but we're no longer in

00:29:18

texas we're in frankfurt germany and

00:29:20

here with such tinted car you look like

00:29:23

a pimp

00:29:24

so he needs to go not to mention that in

00:29:26

germany you're not allowed to have any

00:29:28

sort of tint on the front windows it's

00:29:30

illegal on the rear windows you can have

00:29:32

it but i think you need some sort of

00:29:34

approvals and certificates or whatever i

00:29:36

have none of that besides there's

00:29:38

electric shades all over the place so we

00:29:40

don't need it

00:29:41

now we're going to start the the pimping

00:29:42

process

00:29:44

not looking forward to that i've done it

00:29:45

a couple of times in the past and it's

00:29:47

always a pain but let's see how it goes

00:29:49

oh and the hat bought that on my trip

00:29:52

inside of france centro pay 12 european

00:29:55

shillings

00:29:56

turns out there is something cheap over

00:29:58

there so we're gonna hit it with some

00:29:59

steam

00:30:00

see what happens

00:30:02

oh that's hot

00:30:11

oh i think this is gonna work

00:30:24

it's actually coming off nicely

00:30:29

it's not leaving glue residue behind

00:30:32

like that

00:30:57

not too bad

00:30:59

a little bit of adhesive

00:31:01

state

00:31:03

but i think if i hit it with the steamer

00:31:07

yeah

00:31:09

comes right off

00:31:12

so this is actually not going too bad

00:31:24

again i know it's a matter of personal

00:31:26

taste but this looks so much better to

00:31:28

me looks really classy now

00:31:32

[Applause]

00:31:41

now the main party piece the rear window

00:31:49

i think i need to open the door as well

00:31:51

there

00:31:56

[Music]

00:32:26

um

00:32:34

[Music]

00:32:42

[Applause] [Music]

00:32:46

[Applause]

00:32:50

[Music]

00:32:54

yes officially dark but all of the foil

00:32:57

is removed i can highly recommend using

00:33:00

this good steam machine for removing the

00:33:02

tint just heat it up real good and start

00:33:05

pulling off and even if some glue is

00:33:06

left behind just point at it

00:33:09

like that

00:33:10

and then just wipe it off it's easy as

00:33:12

that in the past i used acetone and that

00:33:15

does work but it's really messy and you

00:33:17

have to be careful not to drip on any of

00:33:19

the trim but this is water it just

00:33:21

evaporates in the end

00:33:23

job lovely done

00:33:25

now you're gonna reassemble the rest of

00:33:26

the engine bay there's a lot of trim

00:33:28

that goes over there but before i forget

00:33:30

we need to replace the supercharger belt

00:33:33

this one is not looking very good and i

00:33:35

bought a brand new one

00:33:40

original alpena continental belt

00:33:47

that's the belt installed now we have

00:33:49

plastic covers which i just cleaned

00:33:54

i can reassemble the entire engine but

00:33:56

let's struggle with the cover

00:33:58

ah this rubber gasket

00:34:01

this thing can go in

00:34:08

cabin air filter is going in and the

00:34:09

filters are

00:34:10

pretty much brand new

00:34:18

and now the beauty cover which cleaned

00:34:20

up lovely

00:34:25

finally we can get rid of the stick

00:34:27

brand new hood shocks

00:34:36

wait a minute coco

00:34:46

lovely and that's the engine bay

00:34:48

completely reassembled let's go

00:34:49

underneath now so this car came to me

00:34:51

without the bottom engine cover the

00:34:54

under tray and in my opinion that's one

00:34:55

of the most important things to have on

00:34:57

this car because if you don't have it

00:34:59

the aerodynamics are going to suffer

00:35:00

it's also good for protection because

00:35:02

when you're doing 300 kilometers per

00:35:04

hour on the autobahn all of the rocks

00:35:06

and dirt and stuff which is going to be

00:35:07

hitting the bottom of the engine and

00:35:08

that's not good thankful and

00:35:10

surprisingly this wasn't that expensive

00:35:12

150 euros from the dealer just a piece

00:35:15

of plastic i also bought that lip that

00:35:17

goes somewhere in the front

00:35:18

and then the transmission cover we

00:35:20

already have that all right

00:35:33

nice

00:35:35

so a bracket goes here

00:35:42

so this is alpena transmission cover

00:35:45

because

00:35:46

we have

00:35:48

cooling fins in the transmission alpena

00:35:50

cut the hole

00:35:51

in this cover

00:35:53

i think normal

00:35:55

745i or 750i

00:35:58

has all of this covered

00:36:01

the bottom end is buttoned up as well we

00:36:03

have this lovely lip that's going to

00:36:05

scrape everywhere but it's some sort of

00:36:06

rubber so it should be fine

00:36:08

the engine cover

00:36:10

firmly in place

00:36:11

transmission surrounding and all the

00:36:12

wires tucked in

00:36:14

so when we come back from our test drive

00:36:16

we're going to remove all of this and

00:36:18

see how many thousands of leaks we have

00:36:20

but with that we are ready to hit the

00:36:22

autobahn guten tag

00:36:26

it's test drive time

00:36:32

starts lovely so i checked the tire

00:36:34

pressure it was low because the car was

00:36:36

sitting forever

00:36:37

checked all of the bodily fluids we're

00:36:39

good there

00:36:42

and we're off

00:36:43

128

00:36:46

369

00:36:48

miles so i'm hoping to do around

00:36:52

100 kilometers or so so 60 miles we'll

00:36:54

see how it goes first stop go go juice

00:36:57

ride comfort

00:37:02

21-inch tires

00:37:04

we're not gonna have much of that

00:37:06

you're gonna go for 102. i'll be right

00:37:08

back i've got some fishermen

00:37:11

go go juice says service minus 40 miles

00:37:14

oh no

00:37:15

it's a dog over there

00:37:18

he likes the alpena i think

00:37:24

so this is a particularly bad road let's

00:37:26

see

00:37:27

suspension

00:37:34

not too bad definitely softer than the

00:37:37

e60 m5

00:37:39

are you know what i'm most likely gonna

00:37:41

end up replacing

00:37:43

shocks on this car as well

00:37:45

you saw how worn they were on the e60

00:37:50

yeah

00:37:52

and the thing that i like about the e60

00:37:53

m5 now is it literally drives like a

00:37:56

brand new car the suspension the engine

00:38:00

everything it just feels like a brand

00:38:01

new car and i love that about it and i

00:38:03

want the same for this car so i have to

00:38:05

check the price and we're most likely

00:38:06

gonna go with the original can i want it

00:38:08

to feel like you did

00:38:09

back in the day and this is literally

00:38:12

the first time i'm driving this car on

00:38:14

the road

00:38:16

oh

00:38:17

yeah we're gonna need shocks or maybe

00:38:19

it's just the big

00:38:20

wheels i'm not used to it 21 inch i've

00:38:22

never had a car with such big wheels

00:38:24

you know you're gonna get that pimp

00:38:26

experience somehow

00:38:27

we have no ac

00:38:29

and the blower fan is not working

00:38:32

something is broken there

00:38:38

the power it's there i barely touch the

00:38:40

throttle and it pulls

00:38:45

and see when in the e6005 when it hit

00:38:47

potholes and stuff it just absorbs them

00:38:49

so nicely

00:38:50

and the acoustic and everything you

00:38:52

can't even hear it in the car it's just

00:38:54

a nice thud and here it's a bit crashy

00:38:58

don't like it

00:39:02

yeah it should be absorbing these bumps

00:39:04

a lot better in my mind

00:39:06

that's 80 according to speedo 76 over

00:39:09

there

00:39:11

so

00:39:12

correct really comfortable seat

00:39:15

same seats as in the e60 m5 and they're

00:39:17

just the most glorious seats ever

00:39:20

so so comfortable

00:39:26

so we're gonna keep it around 4000 rpm

00:39:37

first time on the autobahn

00:39:40

150

00:39:42

comfortable cruising this is so far

00:39:46

that mirror is pissing me off already

00:39:48

it's an aftermarket mirror has already

00:39:50

said that it's

00:39:52

shaking pretty violently

00:39:54

all right we've done five miles so far

00:39:56

so it survived five kilometers feels

00:39:58

stable

00:40:00

steering wheel is not shaking it's

00:40:03

semi-straight not exactly straight but

00:40:05

it needs wheel alignment

00:40:07

i mean i like it

00:40:09

so i'm only doing like a little bit of

00:40:10

throttle but the wind noise it's

00:40:14

i would expect it to be

00:40:16

quieter than the e60 maybe again the

00:40:18

sunroof oh yeah

00:40:20

i hate sunroofs listen to that

00:40:30

stupid sunroof so we'll replace the seal

00:40:33

but

00:40:34

on the e60 m5 when i replace the seal it

00:40:37

helps a little bit but you can still

00:40:38

hear it and that's kind of inevitable

00:40:41

with the sunroof for example my e39 m5

00:40:43

that's a slick top less wind noise than

00:40:46

the e60

00:40:48

when you're driving 240 or whatever you

00:40:50

know the normal speeds coolant temp is

00:40:52

at 92 degrees celsius which is lovely

00:40:55

our custom thermostat from yarax is

00:40:58

working perfectly

00:41:00

ah it's a shame i can't do a kick down

00:41:02

this thing would probably fly

00:41:07

but you know what nothing is rattling

00:41:08

inside it's a really quiet ride

00:41:11

it's a small bus from something here

00:41:14

stop it the third signal stock on d60

00:41:17

and e65 is actually not too bad once you

00:41:19

get used to it the only gripe that i

00:41:21

have with it when you're driving really

00:41:23

fast on the autobahn

00:41:25

and you don't have time to look down to

00:41:27

see if the turn signal is

00:41:29

actually on or off and this doesn't

00:41:31

really give you that good precise feel

00:41:34

to know if it's on and off

00:41:37

i don't know what it is on the newer

00:41:38

bmws but

00:41:39

that's the

00:41:41

big flaw

00:41:42

if you live on the other one because you

00:41:43

can't

00:41:44

you really have time to look down when

00:41:46

you're driving 300 kilometers per hour

00:41:48

you know what i mean i think we're gonna

00:41:50

take some b roads now

00:42:03

25 miles in so far so good

00:42:07

[Music]

00:42:09

oh it pulls

00:42:12

uh i can't wait to fully break in this

00:42:14

thing

00:42:16

can you ever take this peugeot

00:42:19

sure we can

00:42:21

so go down to 30.

00:42:24

because these small towns and stuff they

00:42:26

love to put cameras

00:42:29

on every corner

00:42:36

transmission works

00:42:39

i think i was here with the e46 when i

00:42:41

went on a test drive for the first time

00:42:45

oh

00:42:46

jeremy clarkson hello there fella i mean

00:42:49

the suspension it's it's not too bad

00:42:52

it's not like horribly bad

00:42:55

it's just i would expect it to absorb

00:42:57

bumps a lot smoother and nicer

00:43:00

but i think my expectations might be

00:43:02

wrong because it's 21 inch wheels

00:43:05

and sporty suspension tuned by the

00:43:07

alpena paired with eibach springs

00:43:14

see what i mean

00:43:15

it should absorb that

00:43:17

nicely

00:43:19

that was harsh

00:43:22

i don't like harsh ride

00:43:27

tiny bridge

00:43:41

corner

00:43:43

man this thing is stable

00:43:52

wow actually really impressed

00:43:56

really impressed you know i was thinking

00:43:58

about selling this car once it's fully

00:44:00

done but

00:44:03

i don't know i'm starting to like it

00:44:12

i'm going to pull over here i just want

00:44:14

to hear the engine

00:44:16

all right let's see what the engine

00:44:18

sounds like

00:44:19

handbrake does that

00:44:20

work yes

00:44:23

oh it's quiet

00:44:25

it's really quiet

00:44:43

the mighty alpina b7 is alive she's been

00:44:46

in texas in chicago

00:44:49

and now in beautiful german countryside

00:44:54

it's beautiful day

00:44:59

something is buzzing here and it's

00:45:01

driving me nuts

00:45:04

what is it

00:45:08

stop it

00:45:10

it's absolutely driving me nuts whatever

00:45:13

that is

00:45:22

beautiful road

00:45:43

it's unbelievable how

00:45:46

such a heavy car handles so well

00:46:11

man what a road

00:46:15

so we are 47 miles in

00:46:18

so we don't want to be too gentle on

00:46:20

this engine either

00:46:21

you gotta get used to it to revving and

00:46:26

driving fast on the autobahn

00:46:30

i mean look at these roads

00:46:34

oh i'm thoroughly enjoying this ride oh

00:46:37

use the car a lot

00:46:39

i think interesting e39 we 38.

00:46:42

quad exhaust

00:46:44

is that a camera of course it is

00:46:55

rocket

00:47:15

beautiful day

00:47:17

beautiful day

00:47:20

beautiful weather beautiful scenery

00:47:22

beautiful good working car we recovered

00:47:25

61.7

00:47:27

miles so far

00:47:29

so around 100 kilometers

00:47:31

and it still works

00:47:35

overtaking is a breeze

00:47:38

back on the autobahn

00:47:50

all right we're gonna slowly start

00:47:51

heading back

00:47:52

we covered

00:47:54

70 miles

00:48:21

oh oh

00:48:28

we have a knock

00:48:34

this is not good

00:48:39

oh

00:48:41

we are knocking

00:48:57

yes i am oh it's so nice

00:49:00

i watch every video from you thank you

00:49:06

thanks for watching the videos yes

00:49:09

i wish you very luck

00:49:11

thank you

00:49:12

thank you have a nice day you too bye

00:49:17

so unfortunately the numes are very grim

00:49:21

something is not happy in the engine

00:49:26

sounds like

00:49:27

like chain to be honest

00:49:35

and when you give it gas

00:49:45

or rodnock

00:49:50

either way i can't drive it anymore

00:49:57

so much for the test drive

00:50:02

yes i'm gonna call a tow truck now spawn

00:50:04

bearing

00:50:06

could be

00:50:07

could where will be how's oil

00:50:10

and it looks clean

00:50:14

so that went really well

00:50:18

really dead

00:50:19

oil level is perfect coolant is good

00:50:23

so when i pulled over earlier to take

00:50:24

pictures nothing was knocking

00:50:27

but now on the

00:50:29

the autobahn started to knock

00:50:39

and on that massive disappointment we're

00:50:41

gonna end the video here

00:50:43

i gotta wait for a tow truck

00:50:45

i'm about 50 kilometers away from the

00:50:47

workshop

00:50:48

then we're gonna put it on the lift and

00:50:50

see what's going on

00:50:52

my guess it's not not looking good

00:50:56

as always thank you very much for

00:50:57

watching and i'll see you next time

00:51:05

[Applause]

00:51:23

you

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In this episode, disappointment. We sort out the long crank issue, suspension, resemble the front end, remove the tint and go for a first ride down the Autobahn. How did that go? Well, only one way to find out. Max, BMW parts - https://oembimmerparts.com/ Aqua (vapor) blasting cabinet - https://www.vaporblastingequipment.com/machines/aquablast-1215 You can support me on Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/m539restorations T-Shirts, hoodies & mugs - https://m539-restorations.creator-spring.com/ Follow me on Instagram - https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser Find Liqui Moly oil and additives for your car - https://www.liqui-moly.com/en/service/oil-guide.html#oww:/api/v1/oww/101/DEU/ENG/1/ BendPak lifts - https://www.bendpak.com/ Luuk, BendPak & Quickjack Europe - https://liftmotive.com/ Massive thanks to Radu from RT Design Studio for making new merch happen! - https://rt.md/ Email: [email protected]

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