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Posted: **Fri Mar 29, 2013 9:27 am**

This is a great piece of work, got me thinking about the M42 swap all over again!

Posted: **Fri Mar 29, 2013 5:24 pm**

Would I be right in thinking that you could just source a bellhousing from the more common getrag 240 (E30 318i) seeing as you can bolt an M42 straight to it?

Posted: **Fri Mar 29, 2013 7:00 pm**

nuke laars wrote:Would I be right in thinking that you could just source a bellhousing from the more common getrag 240 (E30 318i) seeing as you can bolt an M42 straight to it?

Yes, but you don´t have mechanical speedo!

Posted: **Sun Mar 12, 2017 5:02 pm**

A great write up, I've just done this myself:
http://www.bmwe21.net/forum/viewtopic.p ... 2&start=90

What I would add to this is to expand about the lateral plug:

Sierpien wrote: Also very important the lateral plug, that holds all the mechanism in place, if you don´t take this out yo can´t separate the 2 housings:

The plug in question is this:

We struggled initially because we thought this was just a blanking plug.
There's not much room under neath to get under it so we welded some threaded bar on but we managed with a screwdriver for the second box.
Once this is out and all the other bolts you really don't need a lot of force to get them separated.

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