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Originally posted by fastpat
The E28 has to be preloaded before you tighten the lower and upper control arms .
I'm pretty sure the E34 is set up that way too.
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There it goes again!
I never understood that - I've seen a few DIY's saying you "have to loosen the lower control arm" to give the strut assembly enough clearance out " It made it look like a PITA frankly.
Wasn't the case with this car. Drop the front calipers, rotors, ABS / wear sensors, sway bar link, 3 x 17MM bolts below, 3x 10MM(?) on top then slam your foot on the lower control arm and it falls out of the car. Cake, I tell you.
No dropping lower control arms or any of that nonsense..
Doing it again, I could have the whole car ripped and back together again in under 4 hours.
rjp