BMW 3 of the E46 series

since 1998 release

Repair and operation of the car



BMW 3 of the E46 series
+ BMW 3 Cars (E46)
+ Current leaving and service
+ Engine
+ Cooling systems, heating
+ Power supply systems, injection and release
+ Electric equipment of the engine
+ RKPP and transmission line
+ Automatic transmission
+ Coupling and power shafts
+ Brake system
- Suspension bracket and steering
   - Forward suspension bracket
      Removal and installation of a depreciation rack
      Dismantling of a depreciation rack / removal and installation of a shock-absorber/spring
      Check of the shock-absorber
      Utilization of the shock-absorber
      Removal and installation of the bearing of a wheel
      Removal and installation of a beam of a forward suspension bracket
   + Back suspension bracket
   + the Steering with the hydraulic booster (servoupravleniye)
+ Body
+ Onboard electric equipment
+ Schemes of electric equipment



Removal and installation of a depreciation rack

 REMOVAL

Lifting operation and installations of the car on supports is connected with danger! Therefore before carrying out operation study Poddomkrachivaniye's Section and towage

1 Mark paint the provision of the corresponding forward wheel concerning a nave. It will allow to establish at assembly the balanced wheel in its former situation. Weaken bolts of fastening of a wheel at the car standing on the earth. Lift forward part of the car, put it on supports and remove a forward wheel.

2 Take out a cable and a brake hose from the holder-1-on a depreciation rack.

3 Turn off bolts of fastening and remove a support with directing from a rotary fist and tie a wire to a body, address to the Section Removal and installation directing a forward brake.

Do not disconnect a brake hose. Otherwise at installation it is necessary to delete air from brake system.

4 Cars with xenon lamps: Remove a corner of the-1-angular hinge of adjustment of range of light from the cross lever-2-.

5 Turn off a nut of a-1-kachatelny support-2-from a depreciation rack. Thus hold a wrench-3-for the hinge pin planes.

6 Turn off a nut-1-and a tip of steering draft-2-from the rotary lever-3-, address to the Section Removal and installation of a tip of steering draft.

7 Turn off a nut-1-and remove the hinge-2-from the rotary lever-3 a stripper, for example, of HAZET 779-1.

8 Bind the rotary lever a wire that it did not fall.

9 Turn off on some turns a bolt-1-and remove the rotary lever-2-from a depreciation rack-3-down.

10 If the rotary lever is not removed (the lower arrow), unclench vents of the rotary lever and record position of the tool. HUNDRED are applied to this purpose by the special BMW-31-2-200 or KLANN KL-0101 tool. Insert the tool in vents and turn on a corner 90 °.

11 Prop up from below a depreciation rack the garage elevator that it did not fall at an otvorachivaniye of the top fastening.

12 Turn off three nuts of fastening of-1 support of a depreciation rack.

If in a support of a depreciation rack there is no the aligning pin-2-or the corresponding opening, it is possible to turn off only one nut. Mark position of a carving finger in relation to a wheel arch perhaps more precisely that after installation to keep former disorder of wheels.

13 Take out a depreciation rack from a wheel arch.


 REMOVAL

14 Carefully insert a depreciation rack into a wheel arch. The aligning finger has to enter the corresponding opening of a support of a rack. Screw new nuts on fingers and tighten their moment 25 N • m.

If in a support of a depreciation rack there is no the aligning pin-2-or the corresponding opening, expose a rack according to the marking put at removal.

15 Put on a rotary fist-1-a depreciation rack-2-so that the aligning pin-3-entered in vents of a rotary fist.

16 Put on a fist a rack against the stop and tighten a bolt the moment 80 N • m.
17 Insert the hinge into a rotary fist and fix a new nut the moment 65 N • m.
18 Connect a tip of steering draft to a rotary fist and tighten a new nut the moment 65 N • m.
19 Fix a kachatelny support the new self-stopped nut the moment of 65 N • m on a depreciation rack. Thus hold a wrench a hinge pin from a provorachivaniye.
20 Cars with xenon lamps: Establish a corner for adjustment of range of light on the cross lever.
21 Press a cable and a brake hose with rubber support in the holder.
22 Establish a support, address to the Section Removal and installation directing a forward brake.
23 Establish into place a forward wheel so that the markings put at removal coincided. Previously grease with a thin layer of bearing greasing the aligning wheel disk belt on a nave. Do not grease bolts of fastening of a wheel. Replace rusty bolts. Wrap bolts. Lower the car on wheels and tighten bolts cross-wise the moment of 100 N • m.