BMW 5 Series E39

1. Turn off a nut of fastening (1) of a nave.

The nut is quite strongly tightened. Therefore for safety reasons the nut needs to be turned off at the car standing on wheels.

2. Mark with paint the provision of forward wheels in relation to a nave. Thanks to it the balanced wheel will reach the former position. Weaken bolts of fastening of a wheel on the standing car. Lift and install the car on supports. Remove forward wheels.
3. Remove the driveshaft at a flange of the main transfer of the back bridge, address the Section Removal and installation of the driveshaft.
4. Remove the back stabilizer. For this purpose turn off nuts of fastening of the stabilizer of a bar at the left and on the right. Disconnect rubber support at a beam of a back suspension bracket and remove together with the stabilizer.

5. Turn off bolts of fastening of power shafts to differential of the back bridge and remove power shafts (arrows on an accompanying illustration). Suspend power shafts to a body on a wire.

Do not lower power shafts down. Otherwise the external hinge of equal angular speeds is exposed to overloads.

6. Bring under a reducer of a back axis a garage jack with wooden laying.

7. Turn off a nut.

8. Remove the main muffler, address the Section Replacement of the Main Muffler.

9. Turn off nuts on the right and at the left.

10. Lower a reducer of a back axis and separate it from a driveshaft flange.

11. Vypressuyte a power shaft from a wheel nave. Address an accompanying illustration.

The corresponding stripper, for example is for this purpose necessary for BMW. The bridge of a stripper fastens two bolts to a nave of a wheel and the spindle is rolled against the stop in a power shaft.

12. Remove a power shaft.

1. Establish a power shaft and suspend on a wire.
2. Enter a shaft the BMW tool, for example by means of a spindle 332 118 with a nut 332 115. For this purpose at first completely screw a spindle in the bridge. Screw a carving element on a spindle and a power shaft. On other party screw a nut on a spindle against the stop in the bridge. Thus, power shaft is involved in a nave. You watch that before input of a shaft its vents and grooves of a nave coincided.
3. Slightly oil and screw a nut with a fillet.
4. Insert a reducer of the back bridge and fix by the new self-stopped nuts.
The moments of an inhaling are presented in Specifications.
5. Install the main muffler, address the Section Replacement of the Main Muffler.
6. Connect the driveshaft to a reducer of the back bridge, address the Section Removal and installation of the driveshaft.
7. Connect a power shaft to a reducer of the back bridge and tighten fastening bolts a dynamometer key. Do not forget to put podkladny plates. The moments of an inhaling depend on type of a bolt and its size and are presented in Specifications.
8. Remove a wire on which the power shaft was suspended.
9. Fix the stabilizer. Tighten nuts of fastening of bars the moment of 40 Nanometers.
10. Fix forward wheels. Do not oil bolts of fastening of wheels. Establish wheels so that the markings put earlier coincided. Lower the car on wheels. Tighten bolts of fastening of a wheel cross-wise the moment of 100 Nanometers.
11. Slightly oil a nut with a fillet and tighten the moment given in Specifications.
12. Record a nut with a fillet a raschekanka. For this purpose strike with a mandrel a nut fillet so that it entered a groove of a power shaft.
13. Tighten bolts of fastening of a wheel cross-wise the moment of 100 Nanometers.
14. Check oil level in a reducer of the back bridge. If necessary add oil, address the Section Replacement of Lubricant Liquid of Differential.