Well here goes with another progress thread.
The story of bringing Peanut all the way back from Scotland to Swindon is here.
https://zroadster.org/threads/easter-road-trip-to-pick-up-a-z3.22481/
Why Peanut? We always call the cars after the 3 letters in their registrations and this one is PNJ which left slim pickings. We came up with Peanut Butter Jelly (a delicacy in the US apparently). So it's Peanut for short
Picking up from the initial work we did when we landed Peanut (in the road trip thread) we started checking her over to have a go at firing her up.
The seller had already made me aware of a split in the MAF hose.
By the time it was off it proved to be quite a big one!
With a split that bad it made me suspicious of other rubber in the engine bay. So the lower hose, the throttle intake, was also taken off and found to be deteriorated. On the 'thumb' that goes to the idle valve.
As was the flexible section of the vacuum hose which (if I remember correctly) goes off to the fuel filter. This hose is nearly always deteriorated on every car I've seen so it's worth checking yours.
The 2 air intake hoses are unique to the 3.0 so my spares off the 2.2s were no good.
I ordered a genuine BMW lower hose as it was £13 and the same price as a copy part. The upper hose is £25 from BMW. Now this may sound tight but I have so much money to spend on this car that I went for a copy part here (well researched) for £13. I couldn't see any second-hand parts and even if there were people tend to charge similar money as new ones. If the copy part doesn't fit properly or just looks c*ap then it will be lesson learned.
The smaller vacuum hose line BMW sell by the metre and I still have some left after using on 2 other cars. You only need a few inches before it goes into hard plastic.
The story of bringing Peanut all the way back from Scotland to Swindon is here.
https://zroadster.org/threads/easter-road-trip-to-pick-up-a-z3.22481/
Why Peanut? We always call the cars after the 3 letters in their registrations and this one is PNJ which left slim pickings. We came up with Peanut Butter Jelly (a delicacy in the US apparently). So it's Peanut for short
Picking up from the initial work we did when we landed Peanut (in the road trip thread) we started checking her over to have a go at firing her up.
The seller had already made me aware of a split in the MAF hose.
By the time it was off it proved to be quite a big one!
With a split that bad it made me suspicious of other rubber in the engine bay. So the lower hose, the throttle intake, was also taken off and found to be deteriorated. On the 'thumb' that goes to the idle valve.
As was the flexible section of the vacuum hose which (if I remember correctly) goes off to the fuel filter. This hose is nearly always deteriorated on every car I've seen so it's worth checking yours.
The 2 air intake hoses are unique to the 3.0 so my spares off the 2.2s were no good.
I ordered a genuine BMW lower hose as it was £13 and the same price as a copy part. The upper hose is £25 from BMW. Now this may sound tight but I have so much money to spend on this car that I went for a copy part here (well researched) for £13. I couldn't see any second-hand parts and even if there were people tend to charge similar money as new ones. If the copy part doesn't fit properly or just looks c*ap then it will be lesson learned.
The smaller vacuum hose line BMW sell by the metre and I still have some left after using on 2 other cars. You only need a few inches before it goes into hard plastic.
