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
   Removal and RKPP installation
   Removal and installation of the lever of gear shifting
   Check of level and replacement of oil in RKPP
   Removal and installation of the driveshaft
   Differential and adjustment of gear wheels of the main transfer
   Check level/replacement of oil in a reducer of the back bridge
+ Automatic transmission
+ Coupling and power shafts
+ Brake system
+ Suspension bracket and steering
+ Body
+ Onboard electric equipment
+ Schemes of electric equipment



Removal and installation of the lever of gear shifting

Gear shifting drive

1 — the switching lever
2 — the basic plug
3 — a basic finger
4 — a support
5 — the gear shifting lever
7 — a support
8 — a cover

9 — draft of switching
10 — a remote ring
11 — a lock washer
12 — the hinge of draft of switching
13 — a lock ring
14 — a washer
15 — a pin


 REMOVAL

1 Pull strongly the handle up, without rotating it at the same time. Remove a lever cover at the central console and remove it from the switching lever. The specified works are described in the Section Removal and installation of the central console, address the Section Removal and installation of the central armrest.

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

2 Lift and install the car on supports. Remove system of release and the thermofilter under the gear shifting lever, address the Section Removal and installation of system of release.

3 Remove from the lower party of the car a lock bracket-1-. Remove a washer-2-. Take out sideways draft of switching-3-.

4 Deliver from below on the switching lever a tsapfovy wrench, for example, to BMW 251110 and turn it on a corner 90 ° counterclockwise. After that wring out from the lever a spherical insert up.

5 Disconnect a cover of the lever of switching at a body and take out it with the lever up.


 INSTALLATION

6 Grease spherical inserts of the lever with KLUBER POLZLUBE GLY lubricant.

7 Install the switching lever with a spherical insert so that shooters on an insert showed in the direction of a longitudinal axis of the car (an arrow on an accompanying illustration). Pads of a spherical insert settle down across the car.

8 Press from above an insert the screw-driver in the holder so that pads were distinctly recorded.

9 Fix a cover. The arrow on a cover has to specify forward, in the direction of the movement. Insert an internal board of a cover via the lever, and external into a body cut.

10 Implant a finger of draft of switching into the lever, having put washers. Establish a lock bracket.
11 If necessary install the thermofilter and system of release, address the Section Removal and installation of system of release.
12 Fix a switching lever cover on the central console. Put on the handle the lever and strongly press on it, address the Section Removal and installation of the central armrest.