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Jmabarone
03-27-2005, 11:29 PM
Help me if you can, please.
Here is my problem. My brother gave me his old BMW 320i for my 15th birthday. It is currently at my dad's friend's house. He is a mechanic, and people take their cars out to his house to work on them. So during this year that the car was out there, someone robbed some fuel lines off the car. They cut some of the lines from the distributor to the injector, but I have new lines there. Now, we found that 2 of the bango (or whatever it is called, don't know the proper term) bolts are missing along with the bands that go around them to supply the fuel. The ones that are gone are the ones that come from the charcoal canister to the distributor (along with the band thing) and the one that goes from the distributor back to the fuel tank (also, along with the band thing). I was wondering if someone might have these items, because I cannot find them on ebay or anywhere through google. I'd be willing to pay for these parts. My brother said he isn't going to start racing until we get my car running, so I don't want to hold him up, because I want to race too.
If anyone has these parts, or knows where I can get them, It'd be much appreciated if you could email and let me know where I can get them.
Thanks,
Jake

BMWJNKY
03-28-2005, 12:41 AM
Try a local pick-n-pull. The one I go to almost always has a few 320's there.

blitzed310
03-28-2005, 03:09 AM
There are a few guys here that are parting out E21's. I'm sure they can help you out, if not a junk yard is your best bet. Good luck

AlaskaBimmer
03-28-2005, 04:09 AM
I wish our junk yards had a BMW in them...a E21 would be even better....sometimes living just past the end of the earth sucks.....bavarian auto recycling ( http://www.bmrparts.com/ ) at least has used parts. so if you can't find them in a junk yard you may be able to find the pieces there. I bought a rebuilt engine through them and aside from a few minor problems those guys have been real good for me.

Teaguer
03-28-2005, 06:07 AM
Its good to know what parts you are talking about .

HERES (http://www.realoem.com/bmw/partgrp.do?PHPSESSID=87906c168ea62c2037b7d220858d5 4e1&model=1733&mospid=47175&prod=19821200&hg=13&fg=15) a diagram of the fuel system lines .


Keep THIS (http://www.realoem.com/bmw) link for future reference .

Jmabarone
03-29-2005, 11:10 PM
thanks for the site,
junkyards in my area, don't have BMWs, at all. my brother had to go to Jacksonville (3 hours away) to get one line. i just realized how expensive these cars are, but oh how wonderful they are, especially when they are free...
Jake