I love these videos. The figure out as you go style of the videos are so relatable for anyone that does their own work. You guys are true enthusiasts and it shows in your work.
This video really drives home my reasoning for not owning a bmw. You have to have a passion for it, like Pete does. But when these m5 wagon conversions pop up online it is hard to resist!
Interesting how you guys, as well as Motion Auto TV, and Junkyard Dave are building fast wagons, at the same time. Edit: honorable mention would be PeterBjorck and his V10 Lamborghini powered Volvo 245.
PeterBJorck is in a league of his own. He's on next level compared to most people, save for proper shops staff who aren't working in their own personal garages.
my daily is a fully equipped 04 civic manual that I paid 350$ for. it hadn't run in 2 years and sat in a heated garage, oil change, new battery terminals and engine grounds and it started right away on a used battery. It's so satisfying to daily drive your accomplishment. now it's got used konigs, solid shifter bushings and it is a very nice winter car with heated mirrors.
This will end up being the best build y'all have ever done. I wouldn't be surprised if it gets a good deal of publicity. An E39 M5 Touring is the holy grail for a lot of people. It could really be your only car and do almost anything you'd need from race track to Home Depot.
You guys are doing my dream build, as much as I like the premise, I only watch the m5 wagon build bc it’s my favorite RU-vid series, KEEP THESE COMING!
Oh yes i worked 10 years as a mechanic in a wet country like belgium, and things get rusty and crusty after a while, always nice to have a torch and patience by the hand.👍
am sorry to disappoint you, but my Lexus sc430 2004 still running smoothly without any gasket replacements other than oil change and service . no leaks no issues .. Lexus is all about reliability and i live in kuwait... no question about our hot temp
It's nice to se progress being made on the wagon. as far as the sway bars though you might want to look into some eibach or other after market ones to try and reduce some of the body roll. Great stuff guys and God bless!
Great work guys! M62 running hotter than S62 is only a partial reason for disengrating timing chain guides. There are 2 other reasons: One is that BMW switched from dual row timing chain on S62 to single row timing chain on M62. And number two is that S62 retained timing chain sprocket on the bottom as found on M60 while M62 got famous "U Guide" instead of sprocket which is the one that usually fails first. If you compare the 2 designs it's obvious that sprocket is vastly more effective and bulletproof while U Guide is pretty much ticking bomb due to timing chain slaps on it all the time.
At the beginning watching all the time lapse it was much too fast for me to even see any of the work you were doing but towards the middle of the video you actually started working and I enjoyed that through the end of the video just trying to give you some tips like you asked for
The valve covers are leaking because the regular maintenance wasn't done ?? Wow that is reason 43 why you don't buy a used BMW over a Lexus. Love the Wagon build even if it's going to be a maintenance nightmare.
That sounded more like crank to me rather that lifter knock. It would have been a good idea to turn the engine over without the distributor lead on first to build up oil pressure. :)
For cars here it really depends on the type of car you're looking for. Something that would have been someone's year round daily falls uner what you say. If it's something that was often a fair weather toy you can find rust free examples here. My own car was sold new in Toronto and spent its entire 30+ year life in Ontario but is rust free (other than the battery tray) because it was always just a toy that was garaged in bad weather.
@@joshuad1716 Well why don't they tune it all the way up? Give me everything bmw can offer! Those problems are common in all the bmw engines, disels, streight 6s and v8s, no matter performance oriented or not. Why didn't the 200k mile isf have any of these problems?
Pretty exciting build. BMW's are like KTM's in the motorcycle world everyone hates them until they drive them. I admit some items are not the most reliable. Rod bearing are always in the back of my mind. lol
Just like back in elementary school, green scissors are lefty red are righty and well there wasn't a yellow but yellow isn't a universal it's for a straight cut.
I like the stabs at BMW oil leaks over there. Here in NZ every toyota and nissan I have owned was just a total dump truck of oil all over the engines. All the BMWs I've owned have only had valve cover gaskets leak. Strange how country and climate cause these things. Plus kiwi's almost never maintain their japanese cars haha
So....were does that shop floor drain lead to? You guys have put some nasty stuff down there over the years. Is it all just sitting under floor? Does it flow into the closest river? Or does it get collected and treated?
Why start an engine after sitting like that? It's potentially a high wear event, could potentially cause damage if you're not lucky. Change the fluids first, give it a look over, perhaps crank without spark to lubricate first.
I like you a lot guys and also I love the way you work on cars and all of your projects but it is pretty well known around the world since the 1980s, that Japan has the highest steel quality in the planet and that's something that even the Germans themselves admit freely. Of course BMW has high quality steel in its frame but nowhere near as good as the steel on the Lexus. Anything manufactured from a Japanese factory is expected to stay way more rust free, than any other vehicle. And of course it depends on the brand. There are Opels or VWs here in Europe from the 90s that rust so much faster than any Japanese product.
Side by side, here in Ontario, a German car is far less rusty then a Japanese car. Lexus may be the exception but everything else Including Toyotas rust so badly.
@@speedacademy that is true but only for Toyotas coming out of US factories. In Germany we would see Golfs and E30s rust way quicker than any Corolla or Starlet. No comparison with Carinas and Celicas. By the way I'm writing to you from Greece right now where you're any time welcome guys. By the way I agree with what you said about reliability. If you service a car properly it will be reliable and especially a BMW from the good old days. If a valve cover starts leaking and I ignore it then it's my fault for the oily crust on the bottom of the engine...
