whiskychaser
07-20-2008, 03:52 PM
This box doesnt have the big flange nut on the outside. Thats too easy! You need to remove the 7 bolts and remove the tailshaft to do it. But beware. Up to gearbox no 112300 the TIS warns you need to jam something between the parking brake pawl and the housing before you remove it or the clutches drop out! If you have the sump off already its no big deal. You may be advised that the nut inside is 46mm but it isnt. What you will be looking at is this:
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll280/whiskychaser/gearbox%20lift/SP_A0313.jpg
You need to knock back the tabs where the grooved nut has been tapped in with a chisel and mark the flange and nut with tippex so you know the exact position of the nut before you move it. You then push the shaft through the bearing. I was sceptical but it does come out! BMW UK/DE dont stock the socket and if they did it would cost you £70 and take forever to get it. I mentioned this to my neighbour over the garden wall-and a beer. He works for a tube suppliers and within 24 hours I had the tool:
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll280/whiskychaser/gearbox%20lift/tool.jpg
Its made 60mm OD mild steel tubing. But my neighbour had seen a programme about making samurai swords so we had an idea how to harden it. We heated it to cherry red on charcoal in an open fire in his front room and then quenched it in a bucket of water. Did it work? Oh Yes. £70 v 2 bottles of good wine and a lot of fun? No contest! Anyone crazy enough to want to make one pm me as I have all the dims on file:D
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll280/whiskychaser/gearbox%20lift/SP_A0313.jpg
You need to knock back the tabs where the grooved nut has been tapped in with a chisel and mark the flange and nut with tippex so you know the exact position of the nut before you move it. You then push the shaft through the bearing. I was sceptical but it does come out! BMW UK/DE dont stock the socket and if they did it would cost you £70 and take forever to get it. I mentioned this to my neighbour over the garden wall-and a beer. He works for a tube suppliers and within 24 hours I had the tool:
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll280/whiskychaser/gearbox%20lift/tool.jpg
Its made 60mm OD mild steel tubing. But my neighbour had seen a programme about making samurai swords so we had an idea how to harden it. We heated it to cherry red on charcoal in an open fire in his front room and then quenched it in a bucket of water. Did it work? Oh Yes. £70 v 2 bottles of good wine and a lot of fun? No contest! Anyone crazy enough to want to make one pm me as I have all the dims on file:D