Now Daves Zed is back home we quickly in the next project. A lovely low mile (90k) 3.0 Siena Red, first time we’ve ever seen one in the flesh. First thing we did notice was this must be an early M54 3.0 because it had the M52 exhaust setup with the cats mid way down the car instead of how all M54’s have it up on the manifolds.
We forgot photos of when she first arrived but here she is.
We didn’t hang about today getting the subframe out. Gaz took lead today getting everything out. Inspection photos didn’t show nothing we haven’t seen before. Original BMW stickered ahocks
beam bushes in their normal state, although these bushes were showing a subtle sign of being replaced in the past.
brakes not bad but we do have replacements all round.
shocks, standard dead bump stops.
walk round video
View: https://youtu.be/uEQ_29SEqWw
Now starting disassembly.
some early snapped studs. Nothing to serious to sort.
side bolts came out without a fuss.
roll bar nut took the thread with it.
Nearly ready to drop
she’s out!
we then didn’t hang about getting it all apart.
this arm will need to be repaired, 3 little holes already
beam bushes removed.
we could see at the bottom these bushes weren’t fully pressed home, doubt it would of left BMW like that so these have likely been changed in the passed
worth noting we will be starting a new powder coating process, we’ve started seeing a few zeds we’ve done the last couple of years with spotting of rust in places. We’ve agreed now going forward with the coaters once blasted everything will be Zinc primered before coating.
We forgot photos of when she first arrived but here she is.
We didn’t hang about today getting the subframe out. Gaz took lead today getting everything out. Inspection photos didn’t show nothing we haven’t seen before. Original BMW stickered ahocks
beam bushes in their normal state, although these bushes were showing a subtle sign of being replaced in the past.
brakes not bad but we do have replacements all round.
shocks, standard dead bump stops.
walk round video
Now starting disassembly.
some early snapped studs. Nothing to serious to sort.
side bolts came out without a fuss.
roll bar nut took the thread with it.
she’s out!
we then didn’t hang about getting it all apart.
this arm will need to be repaired, 3 little holes already
beam bushes removed.
we could see at the bottom these bushes weren’t fully pressed home, doubt it would of left BMW like that so these have likely been changed in the passed
worth noting we will be starting a new powder coating process, we’ve started seeing a few zeds we’ve done the last couple of years with spotting of rust in places. We’ve agreed now going forward with the coaters once blasted everything will be Zinc primered before coating.
Next up I remove the tie and track rod. Again a very simple job.
