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Date Posted: 00:21:24 06/20/02 Thu
Author: thrasher_dude
Subject: lesson #1: ALWAYS use a stopwatch or better with acceleration times...

Yes, you were right Bill. lol....I only THOUGHT I was doing a 13 second run. I guess due to subconscious anticipation or something, I counted slowly. lol. on reasonably level ground I ran a 16.16 today for 0 to 60. My next replacements on my car will be my brake fluid resevoir cap (#1 priority!), a new oil cap or oil cap gasket, however it comes, and a valve cover gasket.

Resevoir cap:
-While washing my engine off at a car wash with a pressure washer (my engine is quite clean now minus the occasional spot here and there. yay. =>), while on the soap setting which freaked me out even more, I realized that in using this washer gun I had blown off the center piece to the cap that holds down the dipstick for the fluid level sensor. so, the electrical connectors were still there, everything was still there, except the black center piece and the clear ring (which i found). the black piece was nowhere to be seen. so currently i have emergency hose tape holding my brake fluid dipstick down.

oil cap:
-the gasket on my oil cap is hardened, and so slowly but surely, I can lose about 1/4 of a quart of oil over about a 2 month period. does a thin dirty light green coat run down the top of the valve cover sound familiar to any of you m10 owners out there? hehe.

valve cover gasket:
-obvious reasons. i overfilled 1/2 a quart on my last oil change, and though since then i've drained the excess oil, b4 i did, it sprung an intermittent leak in a corner of my gasket. since i drained the excess oil it hasn't leaked since, but I don't see the point in leaving a known problem unrepaired, particularly on an aged car such as mine.

Daniel
'84 318i

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