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Old 09-22-2018, 04:35 PM
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Clogged trap went to the auto parts recycle bin at my local shop. I have roll guys pipe now. I can smell more exhaust fumes but now the trap cat is out of the equation. EGR and a whole mess of vacuum lines are gone. I replumbed and tuned my VCV and I’m good to go.

The laundry baskets look like this.

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They have springy steel wire inside. Not exactly high quality music wire but pretty stiff stuff. My wife wears the netting out in a few months and I dig the old ones out of our trash bin to salvage the wires. She pays $1.50 each.

Aww man...this morning I decided to reinstall my cluster. I dumbheadedly thought I’d move the car across the garage to a more convenient spot. I forgot about the oil pressure line. I should have known because my 240d had a leaky gauge. Oil all over the dash and floor.

Then I tried to get clever and install some LED bulbs in the instrument illumination sockets. Somehow the light pipe wants a bulb that emits in all directions not a beam type thing like the LED. No useful light.

Then I got it all back together and realized a bulb dropped out of the socket and was rolling around behind the speedo case.

So I did the job 3x. The story of my life.
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