A few weeks ago, I mentioned wanting to address a long-standing and worsening issue with my 2003 530i’s steering...
For a number of reasons, I haven’t gotten back into the garage this week to wrench. So you’re going...
I’d hoped to write this week about replacing the E39’s power steering pump, but life intervened, so instead, you’re...
Last week, I did the easiest E39 front-end repair possible—replacing the sway bar links. With less than an hour’s...
After spending weeks readying my Bavaria for sale to my friends Jim and Susan (and its drive down to...
About a month and a half ago, I posted the first part of this piece—a quick thumbnail of how,...
Nearly a month after I submitted the Bavaria to Bring a Trailer, stopped short of paying the listing fee...
Kind of late to be putting the patient on the table as the cover photo implies, but ah, the...
Last week, I wrote about replacing the Bavaria’s hood brackets to get the hood to stay up without a...
Last week, I talked about how, in preparation to tell the Bavaria to good friends who have bought two...
It was a week for dealing with car sales, both my own and others. As I wrote about two...
As most of you know, our friend, Roundel Technical Editor and Tech Talk writer Mike Miller, passed away in...
Last week, I described getting the FrankenThirty down to The Vintage in Asheville (well, down to the host hotel...
Last week, I wrote about the final set of repairs to the FrankenThirty before departing for The Vintage. Last...
First, let me follow up on something from my “Springtime Odds and Ends” piece a few weeks ago. The...
I’m flirting with the idea of selling the Bavaria, so I brought the old girl back from the Monson...
Last week, I explained how I was ready to charge up the resurrected a/c in the FrankenThirty, but found...
With the road trip to The Vintage now just a month away, I really really wanted to finish the a/c...
In my book Just Needs a Recharge: The Hack Mechanic Guide to Vintage Air Conditioning, I define “vintage air conditioning”...
Five years ago, I wrote a fluffy little piece called “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Gold Basketweaves.” In it,...
Last week, I got slippery-sloped and rabbit-holed by the broken bolt on the corner of the FrankenThirty’s upper timing...
Last week I wrote about attaching the FrankenThirty’s original Behr condenser fan to my brand-new Nissens parallel-flow condenser and...
When last we saw the FrankenThirty’s a/c rejuvenation project, I’d bought a rebuilt compressor, blown out the lines, found...
I have an answer to last week’s mystery about why, when trying to repair the fan speed switch connector...
If you looked at the cover image and thought, “Something’s missing,” you’re correct. A few weeks ago, while moving...
First, big thanks to Carlos Perez for sending me a spare carbon ring for the one I broke while...
I field a fair number of “What’s this 2002 worth?” questions through my Roundel email address and Facebook presence....
Last week, I patted myself on the back for having rebuilt the Behr wing cell compressor in the FrankenThirty...
It took me the full ten days from the onset of my first symptoms to test negative for COVID,...
