Uwbuurman: 1978 323i polaris: almost done

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Sorted my bearings.



And then I could assemble the front legs.



Front wheel bearings all greased up.









And the rears, fresh overhaulded shafsts and hubs, new bearings.



Spacer between the inner and outer bearings.



Bearings and cover installed.



The dust plates with new Até handbrake segments.

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Since I was sanding and painting and stuff, I could get some work on the differential mount done at the same time. A rusty piece of crap with rotten rubbers. New rubbers I ordered before.







Oh well, fresh, but new???

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And pressed in.



Painted black.

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Same goes for the type 1 engine mounts

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I'd send the injectors from the 323i along with the ones from the 325iA cabrio to Bernd Prickartz in Germany for checks and overhaul. All numbered. For each set I added 3 extra from my pile of parts, just in case of damage or problems. Duitsland voor controle en reiniging. Keurig genummerd.

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And that's how we've gotten to January 2018. The month of lots of little chores, checking off lists and all in all some good progress.

Several small parts I have disassembled to get re-zinced. I guess it will be thr last load for this car. Like this mounting bracket for the shifterplate.



A couple of new bolts to mount the Alpina chassis bar.



Lines and banjobolts for the warmup regulatir and het fueldistributor.

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Cold start injector.





The backet for the powersteeringpump, made out aluminium, so this will not be re-zinced, but sandblasted and painted.





Brakebooster vaccuum line.



Coolantpipe to the head.



Couple of bolts for the exhaust



Exhaust endpipe brackets

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Time to rebuild the shafts!! Started with plenty of grease.



Assembled



Only the manchets need to be put in place



And than we have a set of refurbed shafts!

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After that I took of the front valance. Again. I found out that factorystandard at BMW was that lighter colours would have all edges and mountpoints of that valance painted black, by hand. If not, they would show, behind the black grille, hence the black paint. Same for the headlight brackets.

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