Recent content by Old Iron

I have Getrag 265/6 out of a 1981 BMW 633 CSI (5 speed) I’d sell. STS machining sells an adapter plate for it. Located Milford DE 19963.

I won’t have the time with this one to source new. Will have to figure out how to shave the weld.

The strut tubes

thank you.

Yep! My large pipe wrench worked.

It’s my twin. Mine is a few hundred miles shy of 99k did you mention what year it is?

Crap. Spot welded 🥵 I’ll have to look to see if I can find an article on how to get the spacer off, welded or not welded. I just learned that the spacer needed to come off by reading articles. You can see in the original photo I posted how high the gland but sat. Bc the spacer was still installed.

Now I need to figure out what is different with the Bilstein HD. I can tell from a visual standpoint that the Billy is way more bulky. The guy who put this suspension on my 1991 wagon did not remove the spacer at the bottom. I am swapping this over to a 1992 now. Do I need to take the spacers...

Yep. The tool slips off and was not the solution!

Pipe wrench did. It, glad I saw that in the IPD write up!

Ahh. Next time I will buy these!!

Ok, made a little progress. I found this IPD article that suggested using a pipe wrench. I am past caring about scratching the gland nut. It worked! https://www.ipdusa.com/Articles/529/The-Basics-of-Strut-Installation-on-2-7-9-Series?crumbs=P0,P4952

I’ll have to go see if the store has these. Wtf are they!

I don’t know how I can secure the thing down enough to be able to bang the nut without the whole assembly moving.

I’ll have to check to see if any local stores have it.