Firstfives.org

The malloc.nl server that carried the online version of the DVD version of the BMW shop manuals seems to be dead.

I have found another location for them here:

https://www.bmwtechinfo.com/repair/main/057en/index.htm

If you've never used it, navigation is a little weird. Each section has a Specifications section at the top of its index. Torque values are all here, but you have to wade through a lot of other specs.

Then there is the problem of the terminology and whether it's referring to what you think it's referring to. Hence my question. I'm finishing up a bunch of bushings and axle bellows work and I need to know:

Would Drive flange to rear axle shaft be the hex bolts that attach the half-shaft to the diff? The numbers are very high - around 300 ft-lb. If not, does anyone know what these should be tightened to?

gt40mk2 wrote:
Would Drive flange to rear axle shaft be the hex bolts that attach the half-shaft to the diff? The numbers are very high - around 300 ft-lb. If not, does anyone know what these should be tightened to?

Yes, correct part, and the big blue book does say 289-325 ft-lb, but it's a mis-print.
Should be 43-48 ft-lb, both ends of the half-shaft. Same spec as the drive shaft to the diff flange.

No, I think you're looking at the wrong part. The torque spec in question is for #2 here, the drive flange, not the half shaft/CV joint. Your numbers for the half shaft sound about right.

Thanks. That's, uh . . . quite the misprint. Our wrench only goes up to 150.

So I thought I'd have to do it twice. 😜