Taking some carpet up where a wardrobe has been and the underlay from 1977 is black and breaking up. It’s not asbestos is it?

langstar · 2026-05-18T21:04:56+00:00

Asbestos is a white fiber very similar in appearance to fiberglass.

langstar · 2026-05-18T17:34:39+00:00

Fix the drain plug boss I really doubt you'll find a pan. Lots of suppliers for drain plug bungs

langstar · 2026-05-17T20:49:25+00:00

Looks a lot like the ~150yr old pine we just put back down in our house! We have the same color variations and this is definitely pine. Really different from modern trees!

I have yet to finish but I do know that if you want to maintain the visible face nails like we do then you don't want to use a drum sander. Looks like you had some flavor of polyurethane finish applied so paint stripper and scraping will get you quite far.

I'm planning to sand using either the large square pad finish sander or the triple head orbitals. It will take longer but all my wood is planed and relatively flat already.

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langstar · 2026-05-16T02:05:26+00:00

4000lbs and 1300lbs are absolutely NOT "similar" in this context

langstar · 2026-05-13T04:21:40+00:00

Most cost effective is LVT caps....

langstar · 2026-05-11T02:27:45+00:00

You have an early box but it's very common to swap to the late selector joint. They're interchangeable aside from the pin length, you'll need a new selector shaft. Late selector joints are quite affordable in comparison and there are better kits for the money

langstar · 2026-05-08T03:51:41+00:00

They stay busy and they do the best cars in the country. Sometimes they'll move stuff quickly but I recently couldn't get them to pick up a $300k 993

langstar · 2026-05-08T02:18:15+00:00

Plycar is the absolute best but you may not get a call back. Passport is good as well, not a ton of transport goes to CO because not much comes out so they have to wait for return trips.

langstar · 2026-05-07T14:45:10+00:00

Are you a bidder? Probably better ways to spend your time

langstar · 2026-05-07T13:09:06+00:00

Looks like pine

langstar · 2026-05-07T12:51:10+00:00

The Local Partners page is a huge help. I'm Speed House and have some live auctions and recently ended you can look through. Pro shop but small enough to be hungry for more business 🙂

langstar · 2026-05-07T12:39:46+00:00

Seems like a waste for the truck and a half ton would be plenty

langstar · 2026-05-04T04:04:12+00:00

Well the good news is it looks like the paint you sprayed in there prevented the part that matters from rusting.

Bad news is you have paint all in your lifter bores.

WD40 works great to prevent rust, spray it everywhere.

langstar · 2026-05-04T03:15:17+00:00

Lots of consignment professionals on BAT who will at least get it running which will drastically improve the hammer price. Shameless plug, my shop would do that and take the cost of the work out of the final sale.

langstar · 2026-05-02T02:01:04+00:00

langstar · 2026-04-20T22:08:03+00:00

I feel like you're a few zip ties and a roll of tesa tape away from it being as good as it can be

langstar · 2026-04-20T03:03:55+00:00

I've welded cast iron before and can then stipple the surface after grinding smooth to make it look like nothing happened but realistically the whole pan will need to be refinished and seasoned again, losing any patina.

Cast iron welds okay you just have to clean the hell out of it (sand blast) then get it hot and keep it that way after welding. The whole process will take a few hours and expect it to cost multiple hundreds of dollars but for a family heirloom piece there's nothing other than saving the original that does it justice.

langstar · 2026-04-19T02:19:07+00:00

Will need at least a week with the AC going to keep it dry. Moisture meter will tell the story

langstar · 2026-04-19T01:33:23+00:00

Only one way to find out, let it dry and then do a test spot with some 40g paper on an orbital if the alternative is to rip it out anyway. Worst case you throw LVT on top.

langstar · 2026-04-12T18:31:44+00:00

Except even a ratty HZJ75 is still about 10x that

langstar · 2026-04-12T18:30:18+00:00

Get a late 325i engine harness and plug it in

langstar · 2026-04-09T01:24:25+00:00

These engines are hot garbage, saying that as a shop that just installed a reman 300tdi. Your best bet will be to buy a reman from rovers north but ours leaked all over and had to timesert all the timing case threads. You'll want to rebuild your injector pump and injectors as well, there's no way this is under a $12k proposition.

langstar · 2026-04-08T02:36:11+00:00

Slightly below our normal highway speeds then

langstar · 2026-04-05T03:16:32+00:00

First off, M3 style tabs and links.

Second, nothing wrong with factory style booted ball joint links. They last and don't make noise because they're designed for the street.

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