I don't know. Someone will be along shortly with an in-depth explanation of why it's a terrible/great idea to drive with birf soup. I drove mine with birf soup for a few months.
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my hesitation with driving up there was having to drive it back to atlanta with that birf leaking like it is. even if it didn't drain the diff, i can't imagine prolonged highway speeds are good for that condition. am i wrong?
edit: he's trailering it down, also
Thats a huge bummer. Did you tell the seller what you discovered?
You are overestimating the severity of birf soup. Squeeze a fresh tube of grease into the knuckle (through the ABS sensor hole) and you can keep on driving for a good long while. On my mini-truck, it took me something like 2 years to get around to doing the knuckle rebuild job (pretty much identical parts/process to a cruiser) and no problems at all.
:edit: not to say I would recommend doing that
@jlups -
Like the old addage goes "come West, young man!".
We're the land of milk & honey - rust free & easygoing sellers / West coast mentality.
Fly -n- buy, pay a local -n- ship, whatever.
You'll drop a grand more up front, but wow - I shoulda taken pics of my 360K undercarriage. And you don't want pics of my Black Betty, she has rub marks from rocks, but no rust. Zip. Zero.
And she's a outdoor dog, my E30M3 owns the lift.
good point....currently dd'ing an e21 320is...
Good man. - so with that a DD'er you clearly aren't in a hurry.
I prefer the e30 gen for outward looks, & old 2002's (esp M2's) - are downright pimp, sadly it went hipster status here so a clean 2002 body is rare, such a timeless look.
But yea, check us out West - I don't mind swinging past a 80 for people & give a 'scouting report.
Rust is to our LC's as honesty is to a politician .
Broaden your search radius, lotsa guys will help if it's a short drive - and those who offer aren't newbs - they know new parts & prob carry a spare EFI relay to never strand themselves.
Looks like possible rust stain under the dead pedal. Might want to pull carpet back to check for rust on floorboard caused by backed up sunroof drains or leaky windshield.
Since rear bumper is gone it makes it easy to look under rear quarters and at cross member for rust.
I'd also charge at least a $1K penalty foul for the red paint under the hood .