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Originally Posted by ml26
I’ve got a set of style 68 on mine and love them. Except for the fact that they don’t clear the f3x brake calipers I picked up….
Now on to the shitty stuff:
When I was under the car doing an oil change, discovered a crack in my thermostat leaking out coolant. So, replacing the water pump and thermostat.
While under there, my oil pan has been seeping for awhile, so decided to take a deeper dive into it. I’ve been holding off on taking care of it because it’s a bigger job than I wanted to tackle currently. And most of the time, it’s just the gasket and the amount of oil lost between changes hasn’t been to bad. Sadly, the oil pan itself has a decent amount of corrosion around some of the bolts, so I’m just going to replace the whole thing.
What sucks is that there are no manual transmission oil pans aside from genuine BMW. And it’s $845 new WITHOUT BOLTS OR GASKET. WTF. Auto pans are way cheaper and made of aluminum instead of steel. Why in the world isn’t there a non-BMW manual trans oil pan for n52 cars? Not even a racing aftermarket one with better baffling and cooling fins that’s not $2500?!? If anybody knows of one, please send it my way.
My bank account hates me right now. And it’s not even for the fun stuff I’ve got waiting to install.
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The water pump and thermostat is something I don’t even want to entertain ever doing on these cars. And the oil pan gasket is also a problem of mine I’m dreading to do. Local Indy shops around me quote $1100 to do it and I can’t get myself to pay that lol.