The Random E46/ZHP Question Thread

[slater]

It’s inconsistent (maybe once a week, but I expect it to be more frequent now lol), but I’ll just record each time I start up until I capture it.

I want to keep saying “dammit Peter sold me a lemon!” but that’s just life with an aging German car . At least I’m learning a hell of a lot!

haha... yep, it's a lemon!!

i mean... it's not a honda. but it also is not engineered like one. and at the age these cars are at, a lot of these type of issues definitely depend on how the POs drove and treated it. and while it can be painful overcoming issues as they come up, at least you're sorting it and know what the story is going forward.

my ZHP/T has 233K KMs on it now, is 13 years old, and while the Touring part was a 1-owner car before i got it, i've had the drivetrain for over 4 years now, and have replaced a TON of stuff... but i'm confident it will hold up for the long haul, mechanically... i do have a window regulator to change, but that's aging car stuff.

[704sw]

Check out the project thread for sketchi. I have everything listed that I bought to replace the clutch and flywheel and rebuild the shifter assembly.

Now the weather is warm, I will be tacking this job.

You’re in VA, right? Any chance you want to team up and try knocking out 2 in 1 weekend?

[Vas]

You’re in VA, right? Any chance you want to team up and try knocking out 2 in 1 weekend?

Yup. Just up I-77 and then I-81 North. Roughly 4 hour trip.

I do not have a lift so my plan is jackstands and brute force. Done clutch jobs before on fwd vehicles but this is a first on a rwd bmw.

[slater]

...my plan is jackstands and brute force.

always a good tactic.

having done this recently, the pain is still in my memory. really, it wasn't terrible - the hardest part is the uppermost passenger side bolt - you just can't see it, and you need the trickest wobble sockets/extension/u-joints available to get access. or tiny hands. i probably spent as much - or more - time getting that single bolt out/in than i did removing the rest of the bolts, and the trans itself.

the R&R of the clutch/PP/flywheel and doing the RMS is easy.

[Sockethead]

I wonder what the clutch replacement is going to be like with the supercharger & manifold in the way on the drivers side... I'm going to be really sad if I have to pull that 70lb bitch off...

[slater]

I wonder what the clutch replacement is going to be like with the supercharger & manifold in the way on the drivers side... I'm going to be really sad if I have to pull that 70lb bitch off...

you should be able to reach the starter bolts from underneath... but it won't be as easy. definitely easier to remove them than to reinstall them.

[ZHPizza]

How do you lower the tranny without...like...dying? Floor jack and prayers?

[holyc0w]

How do you lower the tranny without...like...dying? Floor jack and prayers?

Have the governator bench press it

[704sw]

How do you lower the tranny without...like...dying? Floor jack and prayers?

Peterman told me he used a transmission jack from HF. Problem is HF has like 5 different ones.

Hey Peterman! If you get a break from doing the drywall at the new McDonalds would you mind sharing which one?

[Vas]

How do you lower the tranny without...like...dying? Floor jack and prayers?

Bench press it. Been practicing on the rear diff