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If the strut mounts still have the pin in them, you don't have to mark anything, they don't move with the pin in there. I don't think you even have to remove the strut... there should be enough room...

Took the car for an extended test drive today so the reinforcement plates would settle in then re-torqued them. The left side definitely needed to be re-torqued

Let's continue the moving conversation over here:...

E46, 135, X1, MDX, Honda Prelude

I think I'll start a moving thread over on members only. No sense in clogging up this thread... My fault

Tnx! I don't drive it when it's raining so it stays pretty clean.

All back together. Next time I have the suspension apart I'll put a bead of weld on the crack but for now, I feel confident that the mushrooming and cracking is rectified.
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We appreciate that :)

You'll be requesting a white one to move, yes?

Yea it will be in the long run but moving a house, a shop, 5 cars, a boat, a golf cart and a utility trailer ain't going to be easy

I spent about an hour or so straitening left shock tower. It took a lot longer than I thought. It was stretched pretty bad . I ended up using a C clamp to flatten the ridge made by the shock mount....

And like I said the hammer I used was a 1lb dead blow hammer which is basically a hollow soft plastic hammer filled with 1lb of shot... hardly a BFH.

Also worth noting and I don't know if it has...

haha! What they aren't saying is that I'm about 155 lbs soaking wet :)

I took apart the right side last night. This side isn't nearly as bad as the left.

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I used a 1lb dead blow hammer...

Duly noted BP but the strut bar doesn't mitigate it either.
I honestly don't think my towers would any worse without the strut bar than they are now. The strut/bearing mount is perfectly outlined...

I have a rotora bar on mine you can see pics of the mounts in my previous posts

IDK what Dane had on his car at the time. He's changed his bar a few times over the years

I was thinking of adding 3 rosette welds (plug welds) essentially marrying the plate to the shock tower but decide against it since BMW has never done that even in cars that came with the plates...

BP I think we've already seen that a strut bar does nothing to prevent this issue... my whole reason for starting this thread.
I put my strut bar on my car the day I got it with 44k on the clock. My...

IDK BP, I would consider this mandatory for any car that has anything other than the stock suspension and highly recommended for the stock suspension... before a strut brace.
There are many...

Yep, much easier than the other body/frame failures on this car...I'm eventually going to install all of the reinforcement kits for this car. I want to keep it a very long time.

I'm replacing mine only because I have close to 140K on the clock and I'm swapping out the shocks anyway.... removing the strut isn't one of my favorite things to do so I'm doing a little...

John, you have springs and shocks... pretty much the same setup I have. I'd definitely get them sooner than later....

That's a good point all though even if the strut bar mount covered the whole thing it still wouldn't stop the upward force of the shock mount. Only the reinforcement plates will do that...

Here's...

It's ok, I have about 30 years experience doing this sort of thing. No damage to electronics as long as the proper precautions are taken. You're right, heat is enemy in this situation as you don't...

I'm planning on using a deadblow hammer on top and a dolly from underneath and see how that works out. The metal is stretched so I'm not going to be able to make it perfect and I don't want to...

I read the same thing somewhere else. The guy didn't fix the crack... Just added the plates and the crack stayed the same size/length after 2 years...
Certainly good to know for those who don't...