Time for an overhaul of my 1.9 '98 BMW Z3 Individual

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I've never needed more than a hammer and BUS to get the inner races off. New backplates are always a good idea as well as hammering out the ABS sensors, cleaning out the holes with a rotary file and fitting new ones with copper grease. I give new steel backplates a rub down and a few extra coats of satin black. Do it all now and it'll never be an issue again. Dead ABS sensors will fall out on command.

Those struts are original BMW factory fit. Sachs so probably okay. Take the springs off and fit new bump stops and plastic tubes.
 
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thanks mate..appreciate that...yeah lessons,learnt I was trying to be delicate before I resorted to a hammer and chisel..I have all new accessories. Only the hub itself is remaining...

good idea about the struts, missed that bit... I'd need to get some spring compressors. My plan was to "get the thing back on 4 wheels" and maybe do the bump stops next year..... but I guess its a case of , while they're of and all that
 
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Only going to get one day this weekend, but !... I'm off all next week so we'll see what happens then...

First up was painting the hubs with Kurust. I know I probably didn't need to, but hey

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rubbed down both struts, got the Dremel sanding drums onto the small areas of corrosion, as these struts are in really good nick

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so while they were baking, I decided to attack the offside front brake caliper.....think I now have an unhealthy obsession with getting rid of rust..... grinding this down took a couple of hours !!!! once you account for all the nooks and crannies. Then painted with Kurust.

Once done I'll use the same silver spray I used on the rears. I also have the Big Redd overhaul kit on standby.

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So while that was all going on, the hubs had dried and ready for the enamel paint. I'll take off the paint on the mating surfaces with the Dremel as I reckon that'll be quicker than masking everything up.

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So the next stages are. : Spray the shocks with the black gloss enamel, paint and rebuild the calipers. Then I'll have no excuse to not start building the suspension back up.

oooo almost forgot, also got to repaint the anti-roll bar and............. drum roll...... zinc plate all the bolts. THEN.. I can rebuild it.
 
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Yes it's a Monday... but.. I have the week off. However I will NOT be in garage every day, although I can see the finish post..... about 50 miles in the distance :whistle: =))

Today I wanted to get the shocks painted, calipers painted and anti roll bar painted.........let me show how the day panned out....

so... starting with the shocks.... paint went on very well... looks nice and even... might have gone little overkill on the masking but I didn't want any overspray. Yes call me weird, but I wanted to protect the Sachs label


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and this is how they came out...

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Then I turned onto the offside front caliper....... piston completely seized in. I tried the footpump trick, no beuno...

Then saw a trick on Youtube about jamming in sockets and Allen keys, so that an Allen key uses the others as a lever

and I actually managed to get it to move !!... I'd say about 10 degrees

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flush with my new found skills i tried again and bang...

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Now in theory I can still try the same technique.... but I guess in reality, I'm looking at a new caliper for the offside :whistle:

So I abandoned that for now... and focussed on the anti roll bar. Took it back to bare metal using the carbide polyester wheels on the angle grinder....and just because I could, noted the part number

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given that the curves were a bit pitted I decided to paint the whole thing with kurust and it immediately turned black.. I'll let that dry for a couple of days and then hit that with the VHT black gloss paint I used on the shocks...

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but for tomorrow... we're of to Clarkson's Farmer's Dog pub... if we can get in ! so a day or two in Oxford
 
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If you can’t get in pop into the Marlestone Tavern in Milton near adderbury, Banbury. Top notch pie pub and it’ll be the best meal you can have for less than £20 if you have an appetite. Plus I’ll show you my ///M but I don’t think your other half would be impressed at that.

Can you get any grips on that piston to twist it but I suppose the bore knackered.
 
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Althulas said:
If you can’t get in pop into the Marlestone Tavern in Milton near adderbury, Banbury. Top notch pie pub and it’ll be the best meal you can have for less than £20 if you have an appetite. Plus I’ll show you my ///M but I don’t think your other half would be impressed at that.

Can you get any grips on that piston to twist it but I suppose the bore knackered.
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thanks for the offer mate but I think tomorrow is a Z3 free day!... I'd love to come up and see it another time though...I might try grips especially seeing genuine BMW calipers are over 100 quid..yet pattern ones are about 30 quid. Stupid pride in me is to restore over replace...so I'll have another go at getting that piston out...
 
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I’ve got some oem bmw calipers in need of refurb if you want them mate ..in fact about to have two sets as the left front on my 3.0 got a bit sticky so swapping those out for some new ones.
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Apologies for chiming in here but be aware that 6cyl calipers aren’t a direct drop in replacement for 4cyl calipers (if you weren’t already aware).
 
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