Rear end Rebuild...the real (and working) thing this time

[632 Regal]

Finally we are able to post the adventures of Jeff and Junior (Sal) on a nice fairly warm weekend. There is a lot of interest in this post and I am proud to realease a working copy for you to learn thanks to everyone and especially to Whit.

Remember we are professionals and you definetly should not try this at home...


http://www.bimmer.info/~regal632/rearend.html


Enjoy...

[winfred]

you came, you saw, you kicked it's ass

[Kalevera]

....twice!

[632 Regal]

Thanks Winfred for the heads up on "it just a damned rear end" I probably wouldnt really have checked it out and found that a spindly old man such as myself could do this. I however am still real sore from the lack of workout that this thing bring. I have respect for the people that breed them tin soldiers and didnt want to bring a short term to their lifes blood so I had a mission to those fine folks.

[Brandon J]

Good job. Hmmm, "hydraulic press" on those bearings, nice.

[Blitzkrieg Bob]

The ones with the new seals, crush collar, & bearings.

Dial measure, Prussian blue on the ring to check the pinion/ring gear heal, preload and torque.

[632 Regal]

The ones with the new seals, crush collar, & bearings.

Dial measure, Prussian blue on the ring to check the pinion/ring gear heal, preload and torque.

New input seal, old crush washer, old bearings.

didnt check heel to toe cause the side shims werent changed along with the same pinion depth shim, backlash was good and the pinion had good preload...it's in there, maybey you missed that part?

[ryan roopnarine]

so did you ever figure out what the "mechanic" did wrong? me, personally? I think he mixed up the installation instructions....ie he used hamburg locker instructions on a frankfurt locker unit :D

[Jr ///M5]

Good job Jeff, I love it when you can salvage the project and put it together without any problems. Sure, it's a lot of work, but like you said, "What did you have to lose?"

You have to love winfred's attitude and encouragement about these machines, with the confidence that he provides, the project will succeed.

Looks like you did a great job! The boy is growing up fast, he'll remember these times for sure. Tell Junior, JR says "Hi"...

Good work Jeff!

Jr

[632 Regal]

I will tell Sal that you said Hi, I will show him your car from the Chi town meet so he can relate.

The rear end is fine, probably last a couple hundred thousand miles now. I understand that this isn't the proper way to redo a rear end but for free and to save a posi rear end why not give it a shot? I wouldnt do something like this on the racecar that should be pumping about 1100 horsies but in a low power application like our cars why not give it a whirl. If I never did one or was clueless without a specification manual I would have tossed it, who says good things aren't free.

How is your boy doing? Are the casts off yet or is he just bringin in the women for himself?

Tell him I said Hi!

[winfred]

hey what'd i do? i can't help it if i am a profesional *******


You have to love winfred's attitude and encouragement about these machines, with the confidence that he provides, the project will succeed.

[Jr ///M5]

That's why we like ya round these here parts...=)

[Brian C.]

...did you get some pretty damn good work done on the Bimmer Beast, and show it who's boss...

...did you manage to save about a gazillion dollars if it had been taken to a dealer...

...did you spend some quality time with the offspring, instilling in him a sense that, "Hey, ya know....Dad's a pretty un-retarded kinda guy after all!"...

...did you NOT manage to separate yourself from any of your favorite body parts in the process...

...did you do your best at keeping some of America's, if not Milwalkee's finest breweries in business whilst performing a flawless(?)repair...

...But you also managed to FIGURE OUT HOW TO POST IT on it's own site in totallity!!!! Dude!!!...You actually slayed the big, bad HTML dragon! It looks great too! Pictures all equally sized, nice spacing, and pretty much typo-free too. Well, close enough for us dummies. So I think you now need to christen it:

"Rear Ends for Dummies!"

Brian C.
;)

[genphreak]

Remember we are professionals and you definetly should not try this at home... http://www.bimmer.info/~regal632/rearend.html Enjoy...

Nice job... very. Thanks a heap for documenting it so clearly too, including the occasional digresion into your unique workshop technologies.

I guess I just need more tin soldiers around my place... am going to stock up on some beer to encourage the little blighters to hang around ;) GP