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So here is an email conversation with Jim Blanton starting at the bottom, so much great info!

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On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Jim Blanton
<performancegearing> wrote:
Kyle

Sure if you think it will help others.

Ah, engaging 2nd sounds correct now,,, pushing the ...

It was pretty bad, I'm not sure why my images don't link?

This car has been an amazing adventure, I've gone through....
Head gasket and valve seats cut
New water pump
New brake master cylinder
B&G lowering springs and KYB shocks.
Rear diff mount through bolted to trunk with a rubber mat and large metal plate to spread the pressure
Replaced coolant ...

Hey I looked at the manuals post you made and opened up the one for the 633 and it has information for the 5 speed! 528 only shows the 262. It looks to me like the bearing goes in from the outside! And I think I have a puller that might be able to get the bearing out with the cases still together ...

I definitely have the ability to R/R the trans, And definitely don't have money for a rebuilt one haha. The oil didn't have much metal in it at all, new oil didn't really change the whine from the bearing.
One day it just went from only whining at 3k in 5th to whining all the time.

I definitely don ...

My output shaft bearing as started making quite a bit of noise, I can start to hear it at about 15mph and is loudest at about 60. I can still for the most part carry out a conversation without having to talk loudly, how long should it last? I know 265's are hard to find now. How hard would it be to ...

Mine is definitely a 1980, I can see just empty bolt holes on the body of the car up where the bracket should be, I may be temporarily hard mounting it to the body of the car, as long as it doesn't cause any linkage to bind. Most of the car is going back together today, hoping for the best!

So my shifter has been extremely sloppy since I've owned my e12 and I'm ashamed to say that I had neglected to do anything about it.. when shifting into second and fourth the shifter would smack into the console. Two years ago I left it parked at my father's house, due to a (externally) leaking fuel ...

thanks. I have a 1980 528i, and i was fairly sure there was nothing there, but when i gave the head to my machinist, there were a few things left on it that i was given back in a box and i had an extra bolt for that hole.

http://www.realoem.com/bmw/diagrams/a/k/4.png
I had blown a head gasket and did not pay enough attention when taking it apart, either that or the 3 months has fuzzed my memory. The number 8 piece, the stud. i have two on the head and the top center does not have a stud. am i missing a stud? or is it ...

so i have a 1980 528I that i bought a few months ago, blew a head gasket. Coolant was leaking out the side right under the #1 intake port, luckyly no liquid was getting into the oil, or the combustion chamber.
After the teardown it has been time for me to get a gasket set, but i can not seem to find ...