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By now it's obvious that the theme of this month's issue is the "ultimate streetcar." It would seem that if you ask 10 different people what their ultimate streetcar is, you're likely to get 12 different answers.
Thomas Young went to the grocery store one day, and saw an ad on a bulletin board advertising a '67 Impala for $1,000. He wanted that car, but was short on cash at the time. It turns out that Thomas has a generous grandmother who loaned him the loot to buy the car. However, things didn't always work out for Thomas, as far as building the Impala went. It took him nearly 10 years, and over the course of that decade, he just about sold it twice to rid himself of it. Obviously, patience and perseverance won the day, and he eventually finished his project car.
The visions Thomas had for this Impala was a near perfect restoration job, with some very slight modifications. The engine bay and its original 396 were cleaned and restored to its glorious factory-styled standards. Since the car only had 71,000 miles on it, it wasn't rebuilt, just cleaned. Needless to say, all the old hoses, wires, and clamps were replaced. The same holds true for the interior. Thomas had the interior replaced or revived back to its original factory style. The same care and attention were also applied to the underside. All suspension components were rebuilt, or replaced with original GM equipment. The only things that Thomas altered were the wheels, tires, steering wheel, torque converter, and obviously the paint. What one person considers a resto-rod, another guy, like Thomas, considers to be the ultimate street machine.


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We're sitting down with our favorite writers and cooks to talk about their upcoming cookbooks, their best food memories, and just about anything else.
Today: Shauna James Ahern on her new gluten-free Thanksgiving iPad app, the ultimate go-to guide for a deliciously wheat-free Thanksgiving -- plus, a giveaway!
If you're cooking up a gluten-free Thanksgiving meal or making dishes for gluten-free guests for the big holiday, we have the perfect iPad app for you: Shauna James Ahern, otherwise known as Gluten-Free Girl, has made our jobs easy with Gluten-Free Thanksgiving Baking. Ahern has been blogging about wheat-free treats and meals since 2005 on this lovely site, telling heartwarming stories and offering scrumptious recipes. In her new app, you can peruse all of your adapted Thanksgiving favorites, and watch video demonstrations of the key techniques to a seamless gluten-free Thanksgiving.
We spoke with Shauna about her favorite Thanksgiving meal, her new iPad app, and her upcoming projects:
1. Describe your all-time favorite Thanksgiving meal.They all sort of blur, don't they? Thanksgiving is so much about tradition, the emotional connection we have to the stuffing with celery and onions, and slightly too-dry turkey. Like most of us, my family doesn't want many new dishes on Thanksgiving. This isn't the time for curried brussels sprouts salad or pickled cherry compote. We want the same dishes pretty much the same way we have eaten them for decades.
But I have to say that my favorite Thanksgiving was the first one with my husband, Danny. It was fun to watch him roast the turkey, golden and juicy, in a only a couple of hours. We all thought it had to be started early in the morning and cook all day. Since he's a restaurant chef, Danny didn't think the pile of dishes to be made was intimidating. He just set to work and made us food. My mother said at the end of the meal, "Well, that's certainly the best Thanksgiving dinner we've ever had. I don't have to cook it ever again."
2. What inspired you to make an iPad app?I really love the interactivity of the iPad. I love the way you can toggle back and forth between a recipe for sandwich bread, a video of what that bread's dough looks like, and a photograph of the stuffing you can make with that toasted bread. Cooking with an iPad makes cooking with a cookbook feel a little antiquated, and a little frustrating.
Danny and I also love the fact that we could be in charge of the design decisions, the content, and the photographs. It feels very different than doing a cookbook. Faster, too! Also, we're really lucky to be working with our friend, Pableaux Johnson. He feels like family now. And he's ridiculously talented. We can't wait to make more with him.
3. Who is the target audience for this app -- GF eaters? Their friends and family?We hope that anyone who has a gluten-free person in his or her life finds this app useful. And that's plenty of people now. There are thousands upon thousands of people in this country who have realized they need to be gluten-free, whether because of celiac, gluten intolerance, or other reasons. As more people realize that we truly do need to avoid gluten for our health -- and we're not doing it for attention or following a trend -- more people will want to feed their family and friends safely.
So, if you're gluten-free, this app will help you make great baked goods for Thanksgiving Day. If you have a gluten-free kid, or uncle, or good friend coming to dinner, this app will help you make a great dinner everyone can enjoy together.
4. What is the one recipe in the app that you're really proud of, and why?I have to say that we worked on a light, fluffy sandwich bread for years. It's sort of the holy grail of gluten-free, really. This one is like a white country bread, soft and sliceable. We make sandwiches for our daughter all the time now. And the stuffing this bread makes is deeply comforting.
Also, pie. Pumpkin pie, apple pie, coconut-banana cream pie, and cranberry-ginger pie. I always love pie.
5. What are you working on now?We're just finishing the final edits for our next cookbook, Gluten-Free Girl Every Day, which comes out in April. We're developing recipes for a number of publications. And we're madly baking sugar cookies, rugelach, and cinnamon rolls for our holiday baking iPad app, which should be out in December.
I can't wait for Thanksgiving Day, when all I have to do is sit down to eat the meal.
The Giveaway!
Want to win a free download of Thanksgiving Baking: Gluten-Free Girl & The Chef? Answer the question below in the comments section of this post by Tuesday at noon. (We're doing this one rapid-fire so you can cook with the app in time for Thanksgiving!)
What's your favorite gluten-free recipe of all time?
We'll pick 5 random winners and contact you by email -- best of luck!
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What's News: Newly released records on the Newtown shooting reveal 1,600 rounds of ammunition seized from suspected gunman's home. Food stamp usage swells. A federal Judge balks at SAC Capital settlement with SEC. Photo: AP
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Heiki "Repentinus" Lõhmus
Repentinus became involved with FSFE in 2011 as a translator. His focus has shifted over time to website management, the Fellowship, and our campaigns.
His work on the various websites FSFE hosts has concentrated on translatability. He has been working on both making as much of the content on FSFE websites translatable as possible, and giving our translators the tools they need to get the job done, his latest and current priority.
In March 2013, Repentinus was elected the Fellowship Representative for the following two years. As the Fellowship Representative, Repentinus has been working to improve the infrastructure for the Fellows and encourage them to become more involved in our affairs.
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He has also engaged in various other activities he finds interesting or beneficial to our Fellows or users in general. Furthermore, he always welcomes an opportunity to hear from our Fellows, volunteers, or potential volunteers, so drop him a line!
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Big Data: Probing global warming with object database engine
How can we sort out the data that could illuminate global warming's effect on the poles? One IT veteran had to rediscover the object database engine.
You can't stuff the Arctic into a relational database. That's what David Gallaher, who studies snow and ice around the world, discovered while designing a system to help answer a fundamental question: How is global warming changing the North and South poles?
Gallaher started with Greenland's roughly 660,000-square-mile ice sheet. As it turned out, probing 30 years of Big Data on Greenland -- a task that includes thrice-daily satellite sweeps that produce an almost petabyte-scale amount of data -- is better suited to a technology that has been overlooked in this heyday of conventional relational databases. That technology is an object-oriented database management system that addresses data as objects -- in this case, an object database engine from Versant Corp.
"The data was too large for an Oracle, or a conventional, relational database. It simply collapses under the load," said Gallaher, IT services manager for the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Relational databases designed for reporting and analyzing the kind of consistent data that fits neatly into tables could not untangle the historical web of changes that could shed light on the state of Greenland's ice.
A geologist by training, Gallaher is principal investigator in a $600,000 project funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation to build a system that can handle billions of bits of time series information (a sequence of data measurements made at uniform intervals), and to make it accessible over the Web to researchers worldwide. "We are trying to shift to a paradigm where it is easier to move the analysis to the data than to move the data to the analysis," he said.
The data is so vast that NSIDC (and NASA, its collecting partner) held only the metadata in a relational database. The data itself was stored in directory trees, and had to be extracted before researchers could ask the critical what, where and when questions -- let alone analyze the why. Given the size of the files, a researcher asking, for example, about the reflectivity, or reflective properties, of the ice -- how white or how dark it is, and how much or how fast that feature is changing -- might have to spend many weeks just to get the data. (Properties is the term used by the object-oriented community for persistent data.)
"Then they'd have to write something to figure out what they have. If they're lucky and ran an algorithm, they might get one or two passes before their grant ran out," Gallaher said. "We said, 'There must be another way to do this.'"
Not your daddy's object-oriented database
Object-oriented database technology frequently is mistakenly thought of -- even among the database community -- as a technology that was tried before and didn't work except for limited use cases, said Carl Olofson, research vice president for information management and data integration software research at IDC. This may be because the work on database standards for collecting and reporting focused on relational databases, he said.
To get the most out of object databases, an object model must be created that reflects the the structure of the persistent data. "To do this involves a level of abstract thinking," Olofson said. IT shops may feel "they don't have time for that level of analysis."
But perceptions are changing, Olofson said. The classes of data and complex structures that companies now want to track over time and space -- the person-to-person-to-person relationships contained in social media, for example -- are better rendered and retrieved with an object database engine. Such vendors as Versant, GemStone Systems (recently acquired by VMware Inc.), and Objectivity Inc. are getting more attention from business and programmers.
"The basic point is that an object database is really quite useful in bringing order without losing nuance to the Big Data world," Olofson said.
The data was too large for an Oracle, or a conventional, relational database. It simply collapses under the load.
David Gallaher, IT services manager, NSIDC
The new NoSQL technologies are relevant and provide a lot of benefit, but they lack the infrastructure and industry standards required of enterprise computing. Hadoop, for example, is good at the initial ingestion of data, but falls short on creating some kind of structured output, Olofson said.
'Data rods' for time travel
A key to making an object database work is knowing the question you want to answer, Gallaher said. Another challenge is persuading database administrators accustomed to relational databases to stop thinking in terms of tables. Gallaher and his small team -- two graduate students and a professor (part-time) -- came up with a construct they call a data rod, which contains billions of pixels and looks at the entire time record of a fixed area.
"Think of it as a stack of quarters, with each quarter representing several hours, with the stack now 30 feet tall," Gallaher explains. Take reflectivity as an example: You could ask the system to "tell you where some of the "quarters" are darker than others and what happened there. And if it finds something interesting, [you can ask it to] tell you about the objects adjacent to it as well," he said.
"The beauty of this, is that we are saying, let's not look at this as an image, but as a rod through time. We think of this as giant 3-D matrix," Gallaher said.
For efficiency's (and recoverability's) sake, the data rods for all of Greenland are cut off at five-year intervals and cover multiple databases. "You can run a query on all the databases and make them behave as 'one rod,' if you will," Gallaher said. Using VQL, the Versant query language (which he notes looks to the outside user like SQL), it becomes a fairly straightforward task to filter for what has changed over time.
"The best way for me to explain it to people is to think about it as a record of infinite length that you can ask what you like anywhere along that line." Gallaher said.
Gallaher looked extensively at Hadoop and similar technologies, and believes he could have gotten it to work, he said. The Versant system handled any size of data they wanted. "We were asking questions of huge areas, enormous points of times, against massive amounts of variables and getting responses in seconds, cached," he added. "What we can do in a couple of hours would take six months conventionally, and that is no joke."
Let us know what you think about the story; email Linda Tucci, Senior News Writer.


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ARC Customizable Notebook System From Staples12/01/2012
This is one time when images tell the tale. arc notebooks are both configurable and good with fountain pen ink. If Staples keeps the same supplier for paper in the future, this is one product that is well worth considering.
If you aren't familiar with this sort of notebook system, suffice to say it is extremely flexible and yet very simple. The heavy weight paper moves easily into and out of the plastic discs. Position things any way you like. You can even purchase a special hole punch to add other items but flimsy paper might not hold up to the rigors of more than a few removals. For small items a glue stick would come in handy to attach bits to an arc sheet so nothing gets damaged or lost.
My arc notebook has an unadorned poly cover but it also comes in leather at a very reasonable price point. The paper is offered in narrow or graph ruled sheets as well as a project planner and a "to do" version. Just add a poly divider with pockets or tabs to keep things in their proper categories. Extra tools include page flags and task pads. Again, this is a simple system yet easily customized to your work flow and needs.
It took magnification to reveal feathering on the ruled sheets though only with one of the eight inks tested and at that only from the most free-flowing nib used. On the reverse there is no bleed-through and just the faintest hint of show-through. This is a paper destined for double-sided use and easily so considering the cover can be folded back to lay perfectly flat. Finally there is a notebook that fits both my limited space and my individual work style.
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Today I have a special surprise for you: I am quite thrilled to introduce you to my friend Silvia Nacamulli. Silvia, who grew up in Rome, is a fellow foodie, who learned all her tricks from three generations of talented Jewish nonnas. In London, where she lives with her husband and adorable daughters, she runs the successful cooking school La Cucina di Silvia – Cooking for the Soul, and caters very chic private parties (so chic, in fact, that she was featured in Elle magazine).
However, Silvia is probably most famous for her culinary vacations in Italy (she is now getting ready for the next one, coming up in June), during which English-speaking Italophiles from all over the world learn how to cook a variety of Italian, and Jewish Italian dishes while relaxing in the gorgeous setting of Relais Nature La Tenuta dei Ciclamini.
City-dwellers, in particular, can't get enough of the all-encompassing food experience that Silvia offers beyond the cooking lessons, including truffle or mushroom and chestnut hunts (depending on the season), lessons in cheese- and jam-making, fresh vegetable picking, and great wine. Luckily, the Relais has a giant gym and swimming pool where they can burn it all off!
Last September, Silvia and I were both part of a panel at the Museum of Jewish Heritage here in New York, organized by Jayne Cohen and including the über-talented Cara de Silva and Walter Potenza. Before the event we were exchanging favorite recipes, and I practically begged her to guest post this one on my blog. As you may have heard, Italians like to procrastinate – that's how, between the two of us, it took about six months… but at last Silvia's recipe is here, in all its mouthwatering splendor!
- 3 large red onions
- 3 heads fennel
- Garlic powder, to taste
- 4 tbsp freshly minced flat parsley
- 4-5 tbsp breadcrumbs or panko
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- Extra virgin olive oil
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Cut the onions crosswise into 1 inch-thick slices.
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Backcountry film lovers can get their fix at the Winter Wildlands Alliance film festival this weekend. Featuring 7 backcountry films from both renowned and grassroots filmmakers, the festival takes place for the first time Saturday at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge. It is presented by Backcountry Babes, formerly Babes in the Backcountry.Among the films to be shown, Backcountry Babes owner Jenna Boisvert picked out Luc Mehl's short film, "Alaska Wilderness Ski Classic," as one of her favorites. The film spotlights the two-decades-old event, which consists of a 100-150-mile backcountry course completed over 5-8 days without outside assistance or marked routes. Boisvert, who knows Mehl, John Pikar and other event participants, finds inspiration in how humble the Alaskans are about their accomplishments."They do that stuff for the fun of it and to challenge themselves, not for the competition," Boisvert said. "I think Luc … did a great job capturing the essence of the event, keeping it concise and adding in some good introspection and humor, but not dramatizing it the way so many other mainstream films can be. It is subtle and real."She also enjoyed "A Story of Trust," created by a 9-year-old activist. "I think it is awesome that someone that young can be so passionate about the environment," Boisvert said. Last, she recognized "The Freedom Chair" for being "very inspirational," applauding the mix of music and videography. "I have watched that film about 10 times now and I never get tired of it," she said.Other films include Best of the Backcountry winner, "Skiing the Void" from Sweetgrass Productions, a festival cut of Jeremy Jones' "Further" from Teton Gravity Research, "The Denali Experiment: A Test of Human Limits" from Camp4Collective, and "Unicorn Sashimi" from Felt Soul Media.Film fest creator Winter Wildlands Alliance (WWA) works to preserve and promote winter landscapes for human-powered users. Backcountry Babes is among numerous organizations in the West hosting it to raise money for WWA and related causes. Proceeds go to Winter Wildlands Alliance, Backcountry Babes' new avalanche education scholarship program and funding for a women's grassroots backcountry ski film, Boisvert said. The scholarships, new this year, provide need-based financial assistance for participants to attend Avalanche I courses. They also support the travel and education of female American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education (AIARE) instructors so they can teach in areas where there is a need for women's avalanche education, Boisvert said. The idea for the women's ski film is still in the conceptual stage. "It is something that a lot of us women are starting to recognize – the lack of women in ski films," Boisvert said. "There also has been a big shift towards the super agro and extreme skiing films. Some of this is getting so far out there that the mass population of skiers, especially women, can hardly associate with it … So, we are trying to raise some funds to potentially start some filming for a women's backcountry ski film." "The films are all great, and really diverse, so there is something everyone will enjoy," she said of Saturday's event. "It also is a great social event to get out and do something fun, meet or see other people in town. And there is a big gear raffle included. Who doesn't want to win free swag?"An aprs film party at The Warming Hut Restaurant in Breck follows from 9-11 p.m.
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Gerhard Richter is considered one of the 21st century's modern masters of painting. He is talented in technical skills, as seen in his photo-realist portraits, but in his later years has worked mainly in abstraction. Either way, his work seems to drift out of the subconscious, as his soft, blurred painting technique evokes a beautiful dreamlike quality.
One of Richter's specialties was portraits. The two above are of his daughter, Betty.
Richter used this type of "Atlas," or plan, before painting. Working straight from photographs, he would collect and place them together on sheets as source material for his paintings.
Richter also painted landscapes — clouds, seas, forests, meadows. Unlike traditional landscape paintings, Richter's border on the abstract. Visually they seem to be the bridge between his photo-realist works and his more removed, abstract paintings.
In his later years, Richter — who had always worked closely with photographs — began to use them directly in his work. Instead of painting from them, he began painting on them. They are a collision of two forces — the real and the abstract of pure color.


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>What is mask squeeze?
>Like the air spaces in your sinuses and ears, you must also equalize the air space in your mask as you descend. When you descend, failure to equalize, or add air to the air space in the mask, by exhaling through your nose can create unequal pressure between the mask air space and the vascular pressure within the blood vessels of the face. This can result in various degrees of facial barotrauma, or injury to the soft tissues of your face contained within the mask. Imagine your face in a suction cup. The soft tissues beneath the mask and especially around the eye swell (periorbital edema) and discolor, such as redness or bruising (ecchymosis).
>What treatment do I need?
>Unless you are experiencing eye pain or visual problems, there is no treatment for facial barotrauma except time. Because it is a bruise, your body will eventually reabsorb the effect of your mask squeeze. Your physician or an eye specialist should address eye pain or visual disturbances such as blurred vision or loss of part of the visual field immediately. These symptoms would be extremely rare in mask squeeze, however. The signs and symptoms of mask squeeze can take up to two weeks or more to resolve. Unfortunately, it is one of those conditions where you will probably look worse than you'd like before it gets better. Not only will blood and edema need to be reabsorbed, but it tends to be gravity-dependent - which means it will spread downward on your face. Before you heal, you may look like a red-eyed black-and-blue marked creature in a B-grade horror flick or a boxer that took at least two too many punches.
>Who gets mask squeeze?
>Mostly new divers get squeezed - they tend to be overwhelmed by all the skills they need to remember, such as buoyancy control and equalizing their ears and sinuses, all while being mesmerized by the mysteries of the sea. More experienced divers, however, are not immune to mask squeeze. They tend to have mask squeeze when they are concentrating on some new activity or focused in on a task which diverts their attention from clearing their mask. Changing to a new mask or to a low-volume mask may also lead to mask squeeze, because the diver may not be accustomed to when to add air. Finally, poor-fitting masks or other issues such as facial hair may lead to problems with equalizing.
>How do you prevent mask squeeze from happening again?
>The solution to preventing mask squeeze is to remember to keep your nasal passageways open during descent. By exhaling through your nose and using a properly fitted mask, you will minimize the risk of facial barotrauma. A mask should fit comfortably against your face and you should be able to achieve an appropriate seal by gently placing the mask on your face and inhaling through your nose. The mask should seal to your face and not fall off even without the mask strap in place. It is not unusual for a small amount of leakage to occur while diving, especially if you have facial hair. Exhaling through your nose and tilting your face towards the surface while cracking the lower seal of the mask will generally remove any unwanted water from your mask.


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What a great idea, if only there were more like this, although I think it has replay value too. Don't be fooled by the first puzzles, they get harder, and this is one of the most mesmerizing games I've ever seen - actually it's more like a new idea than a game, very unique. If you like visual puzzles, jigsaws, a HOS with great artwork, and that kind of thing, you'll love this game.
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Spring, we are (almost) there. The snow never really showed up this winter. I am jumpy and waiting for more snow but I think we are out of the woods. It's time to bust out the spring cleaning supplies and plan my garden.
I found these little chocolate bunnies (from Russell Stover) at a local grocery store and wondered if they would be just a perfect little bit of chocolate on my normally plain Jane Peanut Butter Cookies. Yes. Just the right amount. This recipe was given to me as a student at Oregon Culinary Institute. That means it has been tested, tested, and eaten.
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The BMW 5-Series (E39 chassis) was introduced in the United States as a 1997 model year car and lasted until the 2004 when the E60 chassis was released. The United States saw several variations including the 525i, 528i, 530i and 540i. -- View the E39 Wiki
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I have read alot about replacing the resonator. Some people put a Walker Dynomax Resonator on, and others delete it. A good link that talks about this is: http://bmw540ifun.com/ModExperiences.htm
On this sight, the guy reverses the resonator..... I jsut purchased a 2000 540i6. It is stock, and I want to upgrade to CAI, exhaust, software, and possibly the resonator. Any suggestions here? Also, are there any thoughts on the Dinan anti-roll bars. Supposedly they reduce body roll and provide the most neutral handling possible.
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Shake shake shake... shake shake shake... shake your booty!
Ever get that shake when you are going about 50ish? right at the speed limit, the car transforms and becomes a rolling vibrator? well, you're not alone. it could most likey be your thrust arm bushings.
now conventional wisdom would suggest to replace it with OEM E39 540/M5 bushings however, there are some that went with an E38's bushing since it's said to be stronger (car's heavier after all). But I personally like the idea of using X5's bushings. It's not as clear cut as it seems though. There are controversy behind which bushings to use and even how it should be installed. The X5's suspension geometry is reversed and thus the bushing is installed reversed but what if you reversed a reversed bushing in ours? it's complicated so i'll get these guys do the explaining with pictures:
Bushing controversy..... and you thought "who killed JFK" was complicated... HA!!! they never owned an E39
It takes a lot of work to be lazy.
DIY for Replacing the Thrust Arms on your E39 540i - w/pics - 56k NO!
Most drivers of higher-mileage E39 BMW's have probably experienced the infamous shimmy that occurs in the front suspension at speeds between 50 and 60 MPH. The shimmy is often very pronounced when braking through the same speed range as well, giving the false impression of an out-of-round brake rotor. Assuming that your tires are properly balanced and aligned, and your lug nuts are properly tightened, the likeliest cause of this problem is worn out thrust arm bushings. Removing the thrust arms and installing new ones, or simply replacing the bushings once the thrust arms have been removed from the vehicle is a job that is well within the capabilities of a reasonably experienced shade-tree mechanic.
Whether you want to replace the entire arms or just the bushings is up to you, and the decision pretty much comes down to cost. The amount of work is about the same. The entire thrust arm assembly costs about $100 per side for OEM quality Lemforder units, whereas the bushings alone can be replaced for about $40. If you replace the whole arm, you're also getting a new ball joint on the front end, which probably isn't a bad idea on a higher mileage car. My feeling is, if you can't afford to drop $200 for a pair of new thrust arms, you really can't afford to be driving this car, especially in an era of $3.50 per gallon gasoline.
This is an illustrated do-it-yourself (DIY) write-up showing how to change the thrust arms on an E39 540i (model years 1997-2003). The subject car is a 1998 540iA. The job is conceptually the same on the 6-cylinder cars, but the front suspension and steering are somewhat different, so the pictures may not be an exact match. The procedure I followed is the one outlined in the Bentley manual. The driver's side of the car is shown in my pictures, but the passenger's side is identical.
This write-up is provided as a courtesy to other E39 enthusiasts, but your use of the information herein is entirely at your own risk. I assume no responsibility in the event of injury or adverse outcome resulting from the use of this information. Above all, BE SAFE and don't get in over your head. The labor for this task is only a few hundred dollars at a good, independent BMW mechanic's shop. It isn't worth life, limb or damage to your vehicle if you don't have the experience necessary to competently perform this procedure.
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-Floor jack
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-22mm combination wrench for removing ball joint nut
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1) Make sure the car has a full tank of gas before you start (this is important later you will need the weight of the fuel in the vehicle). Have the key in the ignition and unlock the steering wheel so you can turn the steering array as needed when you are working.
After loosening your lug bolts with the 17mm socket and breaker bar, get the car up on jacks. The front jack point for the E39 540i is shown in image #1 you want the jack on those four big dented-out triangle sections which all point to that hole in the middle. I strongly suggest padding your floor jack and jack stands with a folded rag to avoid tearing up your car. You do not need to remove the splash shield from the bottom of the vehicle.
Images 2 and 3 show the car up on jacks from the front and side. I keep the floor jack under the front jack point as an added measure of safety. Chock the rear wheels for safety.
2) Lower the front sway bar you need to do this to get room to reach the bolt that holds the bushing side of the thrust arm to the frame. The sway bar is held to the frame by two, large gold-colored brackets one on each side of the car. You can see it in image #4 on the left side of the picture.
Remove the two nuts from the studs using a 13mm socket wrench, and pull off the brackets. The sway bar will only drop an inch or two, but that's all you need. You don't even need to remove the rubber bushings that are under the brackets you can see one of these bushings in image #5.
The large bolt you will eventually remove to drop the bushing side of the thrust arm from the frame can be seen above and to the left of the rubber bushing on the sway bar in image #5.
3) Image #6 shows the bottom of the strut tube and the steering knuckle. At the bottom of the strut tube you can see two large nuts. The rear nut is the one that fastens the ball joint side of the thrust arm to the steering knuckle. The bottom of the strut tube is so close to those nuts that you can't get a wrench or ball joint puller on them. This necessitates lowering the steering knuckle.
In order to lower the steering knuckle (slide it down the strut tube), it will be necessary to loosen the pinch bolt in image #7 (also seen from the bolt end near the top of image #6). I used a 16mm wrench on the bolt and an 18mm wrench on the nut to do this. PRIOR TO LOOSENING IT, clean the area where the strut tube comes out the bottom of the pinch collar, and using paint or permanent marker, draw a line exactly where the strut comes out of the collar so you can properly reposition it later.
After you have loosened the pinch bolt (there is no need to remove it entirely), stick a large, heavyweight screwdriver, a large chisel or some other prying tool right in that slot where you see the middle of the pinch bolt in image #7, and pry the collar open a small amount. You can also stick a small chisel in the slot and then use a wrench to turn the chisel and pry the collar apart this very closely simulates the special tool BMW dealer mechanics uses for this task. Either way, it will take a bit of force.
When the collar is open sufficiently far, grab the brake caliper or rotor and slide the steering knuckle down on the strut tube by pulling downward it only needs to come down an inch to an inch and a half. Look at image #8 you can see the clean, shiny part of the strut tube that was exposed after I slid the steering knuckle down. You may need to jiggle the steering knuckle assembly a bit, but it is heavy and should slide down without too much trouble.
4) As you can see in image #8, there is now enough room to get a wrench on the ball joint nut. Remove the nut using a 22mm combination wrench.
Now, the hard part pressing the ball joint stud out of the steering knuckle. It is in there TIGHT. I would not do this job without a ball joint press of the type you see in image #9 and #10. I have read posts from guys who say they've been able to remove the ball joint using a pickle fork, or by banging on the top of the stud. You're on your own if you decide to go that route. I rejected that option from the start. Space is just too limited, and you're talking about banging around on aluminum suspension components here. I bought the ball joint tool at www.zdmak.com - (do a search on "ball joint") - it cost me about $40, but there are other sources and price ranges.
HOWEVER YOU DO IT, DON'T DON'T DON'T DAMAGE THE BALL JOINT AND BALL JOINT STUD IF YOU'RE JUST GOING TO CHANGE OUT THE BUSHINGS AND WILL BE RE-USING THE OLD THRUST ARM AND BALL JOINT. If you're replacing the whole thrust arm, then this isn't an issue. The steering knuckle will look like image #11 when you finally get the ball joint stud out.
5) Now we're ready to remove the bushing side of the thrust arm from the frame. This is easy by comparison to the last step. Image #12 shows you what it looks like in place.
Image #13 shows the 21mm socket wrench on the bolt that goes through the center of the bushing and holds the thrust arm to the frame. You can also see the end of the bolt in Image #5. You may need to jiggle the steering back and forth a little bit to get the socket wrench on the bolt I did this just by grabbing the brake rotor and turning the steering a tad. There's not a lot of extra room to maneuver. You'll also need to have a 21mm combination wrench on the nut to keep it from slipping.
Once you have the nut off, pull the bolt out and you can drop the thrust arm. Again, you may need to jiggle the steering a bit this way or that to give yourself room to pull the bolt. Image #14 shows how the frame side looks with the thrust arm removed. Image #15 shows the old thrust arm with bushing, ball joint and retaining bolt and nut. At this point, you're halfway there on the driver's side, and the hardest part of the job is behind you.
If you're only replacing the thrust arm bushing and are re-using the old thrust arm and ball joint, this is where you will press the bad bushing out of the thrust arm and re-install the new one. I went with all new thrust arms, so I regret that I can't provide you with any counsel on this step. I understand it is possible to do this yourself, though it's a lot less trouble to simply take your old thrust arms to a mechanic's shop that has a hydraulic press and remove/replace your bushings that way.
6) Image #16 is a picture of the new Lemforder thrust arm. Leave the protective cap in place over the ball joint stud until the last minute when you are ready to push it into its hole on the steering knuckle. Wiggle the bushing side of the thrust arm into its place in the bracket on the frame of the car. Push the 21mm bolt back in and thread the nut back on. DO NOT TORQUE THE BOLT DOWN AT THIS TIME! Just put the nut on the bolt and hand-tighten it. Image #17 shows the new thrust arm in place on the bushing/frame side.
7) Remove the protective safety cap and insert the ball joint stud in its hole on the steering knuckle. Thread the 22mm nut onto the stud and tighten it. As you tighten the nut, it pulls the ball joint into its proper position there's nothing special you have to do here. See Image #18. Using your torque wrench, tighten the 22mm nut to 80Nm (59 ft-lb).
8) Reposition (raise) the steering knuckle on the strut and tighten the pinch bolt. Using your torque wrench, tighten the pinch bolt to 81Nm (60 ft-lb). Again, this took a 16mm wrench on the bolt and an 18mm wrench on the nut on my car.
10) Use denatured alcohol or lacquer thinner to clean your brake rotors if you grabbed them with your hands at some point during the procedure. Put the wheels back on the car and torque down the lug bolts. The lug bolts are 17mm, and should be torqued to 120NM (89 ft-lb) plus or minus 10Nm (7 ft-lb).
10) NOW we're going to tighten the bushing bolts on the thrust arms. The car needs to be LEVEL and SITTING ON ITS TIRES up on blocks or ramps, about 8 inches off the ground in front AND back. The car needs to be at spec ride height before you torque down the bolts. In addition to a full tank of gas (remember this?), you need about 150 pounds in each front seat, 150 pounds in the middle of the back seat, and 45 pounds in the trunk. If you're really anal you can measure and adjust the ride height further following the procedure in the Bentley manual, but this gets you plenty close enough. NOW you can get under the car and torque down the bolts that hold the bushing side of the thrust arm to the frame. Torque these 21mm bolts to 110Nm (81 ft-lb).
11) Re-install the sway bar brackets, making sure that the little nub on the rubber bushing fits in the corresponding hole in each bracket (See Image #5). Torque the 13mm nuts to 24Nm (18 ft-lb).
12) Lower the car to the ground and enjoy your shimmy-free ride! Incidentally, it is not necessary to have an alignment done following this procedure.
Does anyone know how to the fix loose upholstery (i think thats what its called) in the sliding moonroof?
Sorry about that. Here is what I used:
Behr Premium Plus Flat Enamel
Burnt Almond (280F-4)
Accent Base (1856)
Colorant OZ 48 96
C Yellow Oxid 0 23 0
I Brown Oxid 0 8 0
KX White 0 14 0
L Raw Umber 0 27 0
If you give all of that info to Home Depot they should be able to make the same color I had. (Sand interior)
I think you'd get better response if it was posted outside of this thread.
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Cleaning Dirty Headlights
If the outside of your headlights look a little fogged or dirty, try cleaning them with acetone with a towel making small circle motions, then wipe dry wipe another cloth.
Doesn't make your headlights look brand new, but i just cleaned mine and you can tell a difference.
Hey guys, a couple of edits to my thrust arm DIY article, post #29 above. Thanks to CHIVAS for the suggestions.
Regarding the ball joint removal tool: There are a number of different styles of tools, and depending on the one you get, you'll be doing a little bit of trial and error to figure out how best to position it for maximum effect. With some of them, the fit is better if you pry the ball joint boot up and out of the way. I simply used a hammer to lightly tap the bottom of the tool into position over the boot.
It takes a lot of force from the tool to break the ball joint loose. Towards the end, I had a rag wrapped around the wrench to pad it, I was torquing so hard on the tool. Just about the time you're thinking "this is not going to work", it breaks loose. Now here's a "heads-up" - when it finally does, it's with an explosive report like a pistol shot, so be ready for it. I thought I'd broken something when I heard it the first time.
Regarding removal of the large bolts that hold the bushing side of the thrust arm to the frame: The ones on my car slid out very easily, but I've had other guys tell me that theirs took a little more work to remove, and that they had to use pliers. This may be due to water or some other fluid having seeped in and seizing the bolt.
to add to Randy's post:
just to give you a heads up on the tool. i got a different one then hotswimmer (randy).
This is the one i got:
if you notice the one in the writeup, the bolt is in the middle of the two pieces. mine is on the bottom. for me to get mine to work, i had to turn the steering wheel a bit to get the right angle in there. it also helped i have a 4 lbs shorty studge hammer to "tap" (i use that word liberally) it in there AFTER i pealed the rubber boot on the bottom of the ball joint DOWN so the FORK would wedge itself in there.
worked like a charm and scared the piss out of my friend... actually, we were doing this on this car. i'm just going to do the bushing part.
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question for randy..
For the control arm kit (control arms, thrust arms, and tie rod ends) can the remove/install be done on ramps, as you mentioned, without removing the wheels?
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For the front, have the back tires on. I have a full tank of gas. Put two small people in the car. With the front on jack stands, tires off, use padding on my jack and carefully jack up the knuckle and tighten the bolts. Repeat for other side.
Do the same/opposite on the rear.
Any better suggestions?
The car really needs to be level, so having the back on the ground and the front in the air will change the balance of weight on the wheels. Also, with the weight off the front your not going to know where to stop of the compression of the strut and being torqueing.
If you want to try this, first I would advise taking a measurement from the center of the wheel hub to the lower fender with the wheels on. Get jack stands under all four corners of the car. Compress, one wheel at a time, with the floor jack until you reach the same hub to fender measurement you had with the wheels on the ground. Add another 1/4 inch of compression if the car isn't weighted. Torque the bolts, move onto the next wheel. Note the car will actually be lifted off the closest jack stand while you are doing this.
Another idea is to use 4 equal ramps or blocks. Get the car, with the wheels on, up on all 4 sides and then get under the car and torque the bolts. You will need weight to do this properly and you need really high ramps or you need to be really skinny.
This is a step which is really really really best done on a lift.
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To be clear, I'd have the car level. You are right about this as being important. It is important for each wheel to see the same load as if it was sitting there.
So, What I'm making up is a sort of adapter that is going to bolt to the wheel hub and I'll use my floor jack to raise the hub up to the point that it lifts the vehicle. Same as if the tire was on the ground. The other three tires on the ground.
The Jack Stand is only there to allow the jack to get under the hub.
Was going to make the adapter out of steel (maybe a big wide piece of c channel) and weld a piece of pipe to actually set it in the jack after popping out the jack plate in the jack. Then I went up in my loft and saw a piece of IPE (Ironwood) scrap that is the right width for cutting a hole, and the bolt pattern for the wheels. I don't think it needs to be very elaborate. Should work fine, and better than jacking any of the aluminum pieces/arms/balljoints on the suspension.
Will update.
540 m5 quad exhaust conversion....
hi, i have had the m5 quad exhaust done on my 540, tyre well not affected, looks sweet but sounds even sweeter
Sorry about the delay. It worked pretty good, and allowed for a bunch of room in there. However, I only used the Ipe on the front as the rotors were off. Went to the rear, and because the rotors were on, and I did not have long enough bolts, ended up jacking up the rotor Very carefully putting a folded up rag on the jack and jacked up on the rotor.
Basically a full tank, put stuff in the trunk for weight and had two people in the car on level jack stands. Jack it up just to where it lifts and torque the bolts. The rear cam bolt is impossible to torque to spec. because you can't get a socket in there.
Broken seat movement button?
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Headlights looking for change???
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i have the P39's for the last 2 year and i love them. definately makes the car stand out more then the OE's though some say it's "rice", i like them because it's different and honestly, i can't stand the yellow rings OE lights offer. it's not rice if it's done right.
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Got grease all over your under carriage near the rear differential?
It's the driveshaft! BMW decided to use a non-servicable driveshaft and a CV joint grease fitting ... two things that don't go well together. Like clockwork, around 100K miles, the seal between the rear differential flange and the driveshaft CV joint can fail sending now liquified grease flying everywhere. It can create quite a mess and puts your whole drivetrain at risk of failing.
If you take this problem to a BMW dealer they are going to recommend that the whole driveshaft be replaced at a cost of over $1500 (at least they did when I brought it to them)!
In all cases I've seen, the driveshaft is fine and it's simply a combination of a $10 seal and repacking the old CV joint with grease to correct. The only problem is to get to the CV joint you need to drop the entire exhaust system. If you are gonna tackle this as a DYI be sure to set aside the whole day.
I recommend Redline CV-2 grease packed into both the driveshaft CV joint and differential flange. You can apply it on a small piece of cardboard to really work it in there. i was able to get about 3/4 of a tube in before sealing everything up. You can get the part number for the seale from www.realoem.com and order it at any BMW parts counter.
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MAF (Mass Air Flow Sensor) got ya down!?
Just last month I got the CEL and found out that I needed a new MAF. Cleaning it with MAF cleaner didn't seem to work at all. I searched the web and found out that I could use a VW MAF, however I'd have to remove the sensor from the VW MAF Tube and put it in my MAF tube. (VW's intake's are smaller diameter.) Not to mention that the clip wouldn't work with VW's Sensor.
After a little more research, I remembered that 2003-2005 Range Rovers use the same 4.4L BMW M62TU Motor. I called up the Land Rover dealership and asked what the cost would be for their MAF. To my surprise it was about $120 after tax. After inspecting the part, they're both identical, down to the finest detail. Much cheaper than the $480 the BMW dealer quoted me.
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Defense Secretary to make furlough decision soon
Jim Garamone
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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will make a decision soon on the scope of civilian furloughs in response to sequestration spending cuts, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said May 2.
Hagel is reviewing analysis on the budget "and he'll reach a decision in the near future," Little told reporters.
Little acknowledged news reports that some services contend they do not need to use furloughs to make their sequestration goals.
"There are different pockets of money in different places for each of the services," he said. "To be totally straightforward, the math does work for some services to avoid some furloughs, at a minimum. For other services, it is harder."
The general principle so far has been "one team, one fight" inside the department to be consistent, the press secretary said. "That's an understandable position," he added.
Still, he said, Hagel is reviewing the DOD budget and the constraints the department is operating under.
"We're in the middle of a $37 billion to $40 billion cut over a six-month period, and we need to look closely at that, but I expect him to make a decision soon," the spokesman said.
The situation "points out the absurdity of sequestration," Little said.
"You don't have a lot of choice, in some cases, over where to save money and where to cut," he added. "The across-the-board cut is forcing some tough decisions. The goal of the furlough so far … is to ensure, at least on this issue, there is some consistency."
When originally proposed, all DOD civilian personnel were going to be furloughed for 22 days during the remainder of fiscal year 2013, which ends Sept. 30. Officials since have reduced that estimate to 14 days.
DOD officials are examining requests for exemptions, Little said.
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The proposed 20-year deal between Tokyo Electric, also known as Tepco, and potential LNG supplier Cameron LNG, follows contracts Cheniere Energy has inked with Korea Gas Corp. and others. Utilities in energy-strapped Japan have become eager to tap into US shale gas, which hydraulic fracturing has made abundant and cheap. The interest is heightened by a steep reduction in their use of nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima catastrophe.
Tepco said in a press release the natural gas it buys from Cameron would be linked to US natural gas price benchmark Henry Hub, which closed Wednesday at $3.42/MMBtu. Buying US gas would allow Tepco to diversify its sources of LNG and to tie the price of part of the natural gas it consumes to US prices, which are seen as more stable than the oil price benchmark most LNG trades at. Currently, Tepco buys most of its LNG from Brunei, Malaysia and other countries.
The deal could have wider repercussions in the global LNG market by helping break the link between oil and LNG and eventually helping to bring world LNG prices down, said Macquarie Research energy analyst Vikas Dwivedi.
"The fact that you're moving away from that oil-linked formula, over time you will move away from oil-linked price," Mr. Dwivedi said.
Currently no infrastructure to liquefy and export natural gas exists in the lower 48 US states, but Cameron and many other companies are building or planning natural gas export terminals. Cameron, an affiliate of Sempra Energy, operates a $900 million LNG import terminal near the US Gulf Coast in Hackberry, La. Cameron expects to finish converting the terminal to export up to 12 million tpy of gas by the end of 2017.
But potential exporters must first clear regulatory hurdles, including obtaining government permission to export the gas to countries not in a free-trade agreement with the US, a group that includes Japan. So far only Cheniere has received government approval to actually ship the gas to much of the world, and its terminal to export LNG out of Louisiana is scheduled to be ready in 2015.
Tepco said it would rely on Japanese trading firms Mitsui and Mitsubishi to each transport 400,000 tons of contracted gas every year. The natural gas would come from various shale plays, Tepco said.
Tepco and other Japanese power companies are dependent on natural gas imports to generate electricity. The Japanese government shut down most nuclear power generators after a March 2011 tsunami caused Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to undergo a reactor meltdown.
Cameron didn't respond to requests for comment.
Tepco imported about 24 million tons of LNG in 2011, nearly a quarter of the total brought into Japan, the company said. The company was seeking to buy another 1.2 million tpy of natural gas but did not say where it was looking. Dow Jones Newswires


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Ben Goddard writes in The Hill about the new taxpayer revolt in California this week. The political establishment put together a package of initiatives that it thought would fix the budget process there — but the people weren't buying it. The only thing they passed was the measure to ban salary increases for legislators if they didn't balance the budget.
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