bmw-digest V9 #1092

["Brant M. Miller" <brant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Al -

Your needed tool would make an excellent project
for a machine shop.  Enroll in same at your local
school and build the tool.  Construct the tool
of 4140, quench from 1600 degF and temper at =

400 DegF.

(I'm currently constructing a similar tool in
my shop class.)

Brant

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>Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 22:15:35 -0400
From: Al Waschka <awaschka@domain.elided>
Subject: BMW Special Tool Needed

Can anyone help me find (at other than the dealer for $60) the special
tool needed to disassemble a power steering rack and pinion?  It is tool
number 32 1 110.  I would call it a crows foot spanner.  It looks like a
crows foot wrench, but instead of haveing an open-end wrench on the end,
it has a semi-circular opening with two lugs about 1/8" square
projecting down.  IT is intended to reach around a shaft and engage two
slots in the end of a threaded bushing to unscrew the bushing.  It needs
to be high strength as the tightening torque is 87-110 ft. lb.

Thanks for reading, and especially to anyone who can help.

Al Waschka
BMWCCA 104964<

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