DirtE30 - 1990 BMW 325i

[Senor_Taylor]

Absolutely fantastic day today! Had PTO to burn so today I was off. Swung by DJ's place to grab some old race seats from him and discuss race car things.



Came home and started to fiddle with the car a little more. I found that there was a radar detector installed behind the grill (blocked a large portion of the radiator). A few E30s came with dealer installed radar detectors, but I don't believe this was one of them. The wire had been cut, so I removed it. Interesting none the less.



As I've said before, the entirety of my dash lights, right side running lights, tail light, and license plates lights have not worked since I bought the car. I've gone through at least $25 in fuses trying to figure it out and had largely given up. Today I got some motivation and picked up a box of fuses. After a while of my aforementioned wire tracing, I ended up upside down in my trunk. I found some wires I had never seen before on the driver side behind some panels and eventually found someone had pinched a wire ever so slightly with a bolt. Patched it, popped in a fuse, and commence tears of joy. 4 minutes later, I found a fuel leak that was pretty sizable and was seemingly causing a small stumble at idle. Adjusted the hose and tightened the clamp and she was right as rain. I went for a drive to celebrate just how far this car has come from a ratty, barely running barn find car full of spiders with dangerous steering and suspension, the rattiest interior, and no lights to a pretty decent little car. I'm very proud.

Going to touch my nuts tomorrow and make sure everything is safe, then load her up in preparation for the refrigerator bowl Sunday!

Sorry for the blurry picture. I was shaking so much I could barely get the fuse in!