engine and drivetrain How Much Adjustment Is Built Into The Engine Mounts?

[M3M3]

regarding the depth of the dent for the slave in the tunnel....it is FAR easier to make the dent too big and then tap it back out from the inside after install than it is to try to make it bigger after the tranny is in.....

[Hans]

Mlytle -  I thought so, but I was wondering if that nipple on top was to locate in one direction for a reason.

Edited December 5, 2013 by Hans

[TobyB]

 

the idea of introducing plastic into a 2002s cooling system... just... drives... me... nuts....

...says the man who owns more than one BMW built after E30....

 

Yes, there IS a copper rad, and ironically, the parts chain sent me one when I WANTED plastic for the race car.

 

But it's E21 plastic, and for some reason completely unfathomable to me, the E36 has needed 2 radiators, 3 reservoir

bottles, a 'engine pipe', a heater valve manifold and a water pump,

and yet I can get away with running any random E21 plastic radiator in the race car and it never, ever fails.

It doesn't even let the thing overheat.

 

I don't get it.  But I use them because I am a cheap bastard.  And they seem to work. 

 

And the nipple should point down.  Otherwise, you'll never get it to bleed, 'cause it's drilled internally to

bleed from the top rear of the clutch slave.

 

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[M3M3]

 

Mlytle -  I thought so, but I was wondering if that nipple on top was to locate in one direction for a reason.

Just as Toby described above, the bleed screw must be down on the slave cyl. counter-intuitive, but the designers were actually thinking about this one. screw is down for access, but internally the screw access is drilled through to the top of the chanber inside the slave to get the air.

[71bmr02]

does this discusson hold true with all bmw 5 speed trans or just select trans, like the dogleg 5, 318 trans etc.  I have a 320 I 5speed and a 390 diff combo i'd like to slide into my 02 but  this whole thing sounds like a real pain.

[thehackmechanic]

The need to align the face of the driveshaft to the guibo is an issue for all transmissions.