BMW 3 Series E46

since 1998 release

Repair and operation of the car



BMW 3 Series E46
+ BMW 3 cars (E46)
+ Current leaving and service
+ Engine
+ Cooling systems, heating
+ Power supply systems, injection and release
+ Engine electric equipment
+ RKPP and transmission line
+ Automatic transmission
+ Coupling and power shafts
+ Brake system
- Suspension bracket and steering
   + Forward suspension bracket
   + Back suspension bracket
   - Steering with the hydraulic booster (servoupravleniye)
      Removal and installation of the block of a safety cushion on a steering wheel
      Removal and installation of a steering wheel
      Removal and installation of a tip of steering draft
      Removal and installation of steering draft
      Removal and installation of the pump of the hydraulic booster
      Filling with liquid and removal of air from a power steering hydraulic system
      Angles of installation of forward wheels. Check of installation of wheels
+ Body
+ Onboard electric equipment
+ Schemes of electric equipment



Removal and installation of steering draft

 REMOVAL

1 Mark paint the provision of a forward wheel concerning a nave. It will allow to establish the balanced wheel in the former situation. Weaken bolts of fastening of a wheel at the car standing on the earth. Lift a forward part of the car and remove a wheel
2 Remove the lower cover of a motive compartment, address the Section Removal and installation of the lower cover of a motive compartment.
3 Remove by means of a stripper the hinge of steering draft from a rotary fist, address the Section Removal and installation of a tip of steering draft.

4 Weaken fastening of a collar and shift a cover back.

5 Move a gear lath as it is possible more deeply to exclude possible damage of a lath and its support.

6 Turn off steering draft from a gear lath (the shooter on an illustration).


 INSTALLATION

7 Measure a gear lath. If new steering draft is established, screw it so that to provide the measurement taken at measurement of old draft.
8 Tighten a tightening nut of a tip of steering draft the moment of 80 N • m.
9 If it is necessary, clear of lubricant a pin of the hinge of steering draft, and also a seat in a rotary fist.
10 Check a cover and if necessary replace it.
11 Fix steering draft not to a gear lath by the moment of 100 N • m.
12 Put on a cover and fix it by a collar. You watch that the cover was not twisted.
13 Insert a tip into a rotary fist. Screw the new self-stopped nut on a pin of the hinge of steering draft and tighten the moment 65 N • m.
14 Establish into place a wheel so that the markings put at removal coincided. Previously grease with a thin layer of bearing lubricant a wheel disk seat on a nave. Do not grease bolts of fastening of a wheel. Replace rusty bolts with new. Fix a wheel by bolts. Lower the car on wheels and tighten bolts cross-wise the moment of 100 N • m.
15 Establish the lower cover of a motive compartment, address the Section Removal and installation of the lower cover of a motive compartment.
16 Check a track for HUNDRED, if necessary adjust.