I found one for the E36 but I’d like to find one for the exact car I’m working with.
It looks very accessible and pretty straight forward but I’d still like to have a detailed DIY so I do not screw anything up or drop something on my face.
I’m putting on GC adjustable rear camber arms with urethane bushings.
I would take it to a shop to do it...you're going to have to drop the differential housing to be able to remove the big bolts that go through the top of the control arms and the ears/half-shafts are in the way.
A socal stealership quoted me around $1100 to install the spc adjustable control arms and do an alignment. RIP OFFFFFF! This is a job u can do but you must do the right steps in the right order to do it without a humongous head ache. I Wish someone would do a write up. maybe ill do one tonight.
Do you mean you are replacing the lower control arms? The really thin OEM arm, parallel to the axle?
These are not hard to take off but you need to be able to hold the diff' up with a floor jack, after you take off each caliper bracket, rotor, shock and spring, lower the muffler, and so on. Plan on 6-8 hours for normal amateur worktime.
you also have to remove the pasenger side rear axle. i got lucky and a mec. i know at the stealership snuck my car into the shop, did the adj. arms and replaced a leaky seal on the diff, did an alignment all for 300 bucks.
I used my Bentley and Turner Motorsports tech guide to install their camber arms last month. Step by step, inch by inch, it's doable in one day with a mid morning start time. Here's some pictures just to point out the two rear fasteners on the differential to remove and the one forward fastener on the differential and the half-shaft fasterners. It's an involved project if you're all alone on your back on some cardboard. Two heads would be better than one.
i installed my tms rear control arms in 2.5 hours. i was using a lift though, 1100$ is a freaking rip off.... you only have to unbolt the diff and push it back some..
It's not hard. You'll need to remove the 3 diff bolts so you can wiggle it around to remove the inner bolts. The outer bolts are easy. I don't know why everyone is making this out to be a hard job.
Quick question - just installed the camber arms. Now I'm trying to fit the diff back into place and the passenger side fastener/bolt is not going in smoothly. It's taking more force than I'm comfortable with. Any ideas?
I did this install with friends in my garage. I had the car on jackstands and it was a little bit of a pain. I think $1100 is a steep price. Once I loosened the diff, I just moved it back a few inches and had a friend swap the bolt and rear trailing arm.
I just did this in about 3 hours on my 325xi.. tip for y'all:
-loosen the front diff bolts, don't remove them
-remove rear diff bolt
-pry diff to the pass side
-jack diff up about 3/4"
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Anyone have success on the shortened bolt method? I was thinking about dremmeling off the existing bolt, then purchasing a new bolt, dremmeling off the end about 5mm and the head that the socket locks onto as well about 3 mm. Anyong think that would work? Im trying to avoid dropping the diff and such..
can someone just write like, the steps/ a write up? planning to do this soon.
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