Auto news on Youtube Mar 30 2018

It's time !

Everything is ready, but I feel a little point of stress yet

Are all parts available?

Are we going to encounter a failed gearbox?

Or...anything else?

But it's too late to cancel the meet

Let's go do our best to bring back this 535!

The journey is ideal to enjoy this fabulous march sunlight

that is calling for future great days

but for the next hours, we will not see it too much...inside this dark garage

At the arrival, first thing to do :

find any missing parts tha will be required to take the road

and sometimes that's not so easy to put our hand on it!

Let's jack the car to be able to do the underside stuff

claustrophobs be warned !

Huh... not so hard to find the exhaust system considering its size...

let's get it under the car to begin

blabla bla :D

by the way I find the anti roll bar missing...

That will be easier to mount it without the exhaust

the anti roll bar rods will be fitted later, that's not mendatory

You see...From the oil cooler installation video, I keep enjoying creeping under cars!

The roll bar fitted, it's time to levels check, again, before starting the engine and verifying its ability to keep the heat down

Considering the noise there is something wrong with the exhaust...

Maybe the cats...Huh, that will be ok for this ride

More important : the bakes.

we need to replace the brake pipes, discs, calipers, pads and abs sensors, but a bleed as well!

hum I think I lost some footage...

But anyway, after the brakes, I had to tighten up the screws of the geometry

And verified the cooling temp

Here we are!

It's dawn, so you can imagine how much time we spent inside!

The car is very dusty, but that's normal after multiple years inside this building

the ride and steering are quite...Strange and inefective because we had nothing to set it properly

But we'll try to het home anyway!

Let's check this temp anytime...

Hervé is ahead as usual,

the KUHLER TEMPERATUR

...is OK

45 min to home!

we may succeed!

Finally the eye's geometry settings are not so bad!

We did not died yet

40 mins later and a fear arriving at a roundabout when the engine stopped

We did it...

We have arrived..

we can here that,

inside the catalytics converters, something is quite bad

we will replace them

Imagine that I arrived 9:30 AM and took the road again at 7:00 PM, followed by a 1 hour + trip

let get some sleep...

NEXT THINGS TO DO

To see clearer, let's wash the car from its years of dust

She begins to seems quite nice!

The paint is in a good shape globally

To keep some space, let's bring back some stuff inside the car

Before mounting back the rear shelf

I have to tighten the rear shock struts

Then installing back the speakers

It's the rear shelf turn to get back at it's place, which is complicated by the electric sunshade

The place is then free to vacuum the underside the the rear bench

After that we will fit back some missing parts

What's the point of this thing?

Who would ever accept to get the middle place?

Let's test our electric sunshide

I have some parts to fit in the trunk as well

In the future I will have to protect the steel from this rust attack!

I finish by reinstalling the subwoofer molding

I suppose this is linked with the DSP sound system

By the way, I clean roughly the engine compartiment

that will ease my future work in that area

ok...time to make a short checkout

Even if I admit not beeing a huge fan of gray paints...I will make an exception this time

All E39 are a visual success in their way

I have a precise idea of what I will sort out in this car

And the interior will be one of these!

Thats some work done!

Major labours to come...

But it allows to have an idea of this car potential

and keep me motivated!

See you at the next episode, HUGE THANKS TO YOUR SUPPORT!