My shyt’s jacked – literally. Took me two hours to get the Bimmer on jackstands yesterday. It popped a fuel leak the other day, so I need to get under it. In the middle of winter with Red Betsy on the lift makes it difficult. She can’t be trusted to start even warm until the carb is sorted, so I’ll be repairing the little grey monster the old fashioned way: On my back on the floor. Might even be easier with the new creeper.
I already know what’s wrong. The cobbed-up water separator plumbing suffered some loosening with the deep freeze over Christmas. Should be interesting to see how that’s doing, under the circumstances. This was the first time I ever had any diesel winterization issues. I forgot to put ClearDiesel and Howes treatment in last fall, so apparently the line froze at least twice in these low temps we’ve had. It’s pretty obvious what’s going on when it fails to start with zero fuel pressure showing post-filter.
It took me a few tries to remember how the jack points work on this car. It won’t go up very far at any one corner, and headroom is limited under the lift. Too cold for my fingers next few days, so we’ll see how it goes later in the week. It’s a chore just getting the bottom covers off.
