Going to drop the drive-train and replace the guibo and center bearing...

Planning on doing it this Saturday if I can round up a couple of hands who've done it before...apparently its not diffucult...

I'll buy the beer...

He lives!

if it was only 2hrs away i would be there to lend a hand, cause there is some things i need to do on the e36. Let me know if the parts make it ok to you.

Got the parts, thanks Shannon! They were waiting for me when I got home yesterday...so insert promo here for Above All Motorworks...

...and yes Sparky, I live...
A long weekend, very, very, very interesting...
I drank enough Sunday on Lake Minnetonka to kill a small village...

im glad they made it ok and sounds like you had a good time on the lakes in MN. are they any party pics of this said event

...there were a ton of pics, unfortunately something happened and I'm not likely to ever see any of them...

I don't want to get into it much further (only to say its something rather personal) but yeah...I still managed to drink myself stupid.

i might find some time to get away. i haven't seen the new ride yet and I'd love to get the wheel bearing tools from ya.

you doing this in omaha? address, directions...?

S

Likely it will be at my folk's place...they've got a bit more room than I have at my apartment...

Shannon, do you know if I'll need any specific tools outside of normal sockets and such? Does it require air tools?

should not require anything except sockets and wrenchs.we had the drive shaft off once after i bought it to work on the exhaust some. but that was back in jan of last year(05).

Do I need to drop the exhaust to get to the driveshaft? I was looking at the Bentley and it said I should...

i think you can jsut drop the muffler and let it hang down some. or you can just take it apart at the flange by the headers but if i remember right it was tight in that area.

It was a crazy weekend indeed...I'm still recovering from my 4 day reality-tv-star experience. I'll have to let you all know when it airs.

explain or teh death...

My sister won on 'Home Team'. We spent 4 days furiously remodeling a house for them, and I was in charge of our group of about 12-15 friends and family members doing the remodel.

http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2006/09/04/top_story/extras/doc44fb79ac0ad1a075273501.txt

I've got yesterday's paper on my desk armen... you you want/need a copy of it for posterity???

also, adam, I'm out on the guibo help... I've got my own head gasket to sort through...

Now there are two reality TV stars on the board...

its 10x easier to just drop the exaust

i could help, unless i'm running around hauling parts up for my own pos...but even so should beable to lend a hand

Good talking to you Chris

Mi padre has volunteered use of his garage Saturday morning unless I can find a better locale...

my driveway is full, sorry man.

Good talking to you Chris

for sure, it must be nice to be able to talk cars at work! :D

doesnt matter where you do it..just need some jackstands and you're good to go

hit the bolts with PB the day before, always makes it easier

I'd love to help, but I have to work 8-5 on Saturday.


BTW Jeremy, I still have your parts.

Tim, as soon as i have a car running so I can get up to the 'hole... I'll be there... although i did just bite it and effectively sell myself a new exhaust... shite...

:thumbup: Cool dude. I can only hold them for a couple of weeks till they charge my acct for them.

that blows... if I have to I'll just send you the money...

It's all good man. I'll let you know ahead of time.

so is there a update on how the Tech Session went this afternoon?

it rawked!
The center bearing what shot, the guibo was absolutely shreaded....

Sheridan took a couple of pics...

Thanks to Shannon for the parts and Sheridan for the wrenching help...Jer would have been impressed, I actually did a lot!

:buttrock

glad it turned out ok. would like to see the pics

It actually wasn't that bad of a repair job, save the fact that I'm missing a bolt on my guibo...

It actually wasn't that bad of a repair job, save the fact that I'm missing a bolt on my guibo...

Missing a bolt? :eek:

ja, I have no idea how it happened...we realized it when we pulled it off...

I've got some extra E34 guibo bolts if you need. Probably the same size.

hope you put come loctite on the bolts after you put it all back together. we dont need those to come off again.

Actually all of the bolts for the transmisson-quibo were loose with one missing. I'm sure this caused enough vibration that it eventually ripped the quibo apart. Once the quibo was gone the rubber isolator for the center bearing gaveway. The drive shaft was just bouncing around instead of ridding on/in the center bearing. Adam was smart enough to have ordered the center bearing !!

The most difficult procedure was pressing the new center bearing back in....I didn't have anything big enough or long enough to reach around the splined shaft.

I forgot my media card at home so no picks today...

S

...so we had to fabricate (read: jerry-rig) some deep-well sockets around the bearing and then used the old bearing and a huge socket to pound it on...it worked well...

:eek: all of them where loose good thing u got that done when you did and had u replace that center bearing as well

Yeah, I used 2 pieces of angle iron held together with a c-clamp to wedge under the center support bearing while I pressed it out. Bent the angle iron pretty good, but it eventually popped out. Ghetto arbors FTW!

mein guibo est kaput :(

le bummer...

Hey Shannon, will the guibo bolts from the e34 or e28 bolt onto the e30? I hear that there are a few guibo bolts floating around the Lincoln area...

i am not 100% sure. let me look at a couple of things. i think maybe the e28 will

take one of the bolts and head to the hardware store, slap some loctite on em

yes yes, loc-tite ftw!!!!

ja, I've got a nasty rattle going on down there (again) and I think its because I'm missing a bolt...

i would get that bolt asap. dont want the crap to go bad again. if u can get one of them go to true value to match for a new one. i think e28's will fit since some of the other parts match up. but i can be wrong since i havent done much with e28,e34's.

someone check realoem.com...

talked to a buddy(also a mechanic) and he said no. he might have one laying around if you can wait a couple days otherwise i would go to ace hardware with one off the car and match up.