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E36General discussion and technical help for (E36) 1992-1999 3 series cars. 318, 323, 325, 328.
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Your Ride: 1999 320i
E36 : anyone had this problem?
Just got my 'new' E36 for the past six months. had an annoying problem that made the entire cabin vibrate when i accelerate from 0-60. any speed after that the vibrations ended...
So far i replaced the flex drive/guibo or artic disk as it said in the spare parts list. Changed the transmission mounts which were cracked. Replaced the central mounted bearing for the central driveshaft which had a broken mount and finally changed the rear wheel bearings. To top it all off i had the tires inspected, went in for an alignment job. Just got back form the agent today and so far they told me that i have done everything to eliminate the problem...all except one. the driveshaft...
Apparently, the driveshaft was causing all these problems as it was 'unbalanced'...there was no way to have the driveshaft 'rebalanced' at the machine shop. but i wish the agent + the mechanics had told me earlier that the central driveshaft could be the cause of this earlier. if i was to order one it comes with the artic/flex drive coupling + the central mounted bearing (which i had bought already)... does anyone know where i can get the just the driveshaft or get it rebalanced? what are your suggestions on this?
The car is running puuurfectly.. but there are 101 projects coming up within the year..hope to enter my car in the for all to see..
Just got my 'new' E36 for the past six months. had an annoying problem that made the entire cabin vibrate when i accelerate from 0-60. any speed after that the vibrations ended...
So far i replaced the flex drive/guibo or artic disk as it said in the spare parts list. Changed the transmission mounts which were cracked. Replaced the central mounted bearing for the central driveshaft which had a broken mount and finally changed the rear wheel bearings. To top it all off i had the tires inspected, went in for an alignment job. Just got back form the agent today and so far they told me that i have done everything to eliminate the problem...all except one. the driveshaft...
Apparently, the driveshaft was causing all these problems as it was 'unbalanced'...there was no way to have the driveshaft 'rebalanced' at the machine shop. but i wish the agent + the mechanics had told me earlier that the central driveshaft could be the cause of this earlier. if i was to order one it comes with the artic/flex drive coupling + the central mounted bearing (which i had bought already)... does anyone know where i can get the just the driveshaft or get it rebalanced? what are your suggestions on this?
The car is running puuurfectly.. but there are 101 projects coming up within the year..hope to enter my car in the for all to see..
Actually it sounds like your U-joints are bad. I know where there are a lot of places to have drive shafts rebuilt.. But, you don't mention where you live.
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Your Ride: 1999 320i
Hello...
thats 1 thing i just realized as i took her out for a drive again. which joints need to be looked at? the rear driveshafts? the one on the prop shaft? I live in brunei, a small country on borneo island. As soon as i get this problem solved the torsion bars will come on, changing to angel eyes and new fog lamps...i am considering the fan clutch delete mod to my car but have not seen this mod on any other bmw car (3series or otherwise). since it can get very hot and humid here with the temp hovering around 32-33 deg cel and humidity above 80%. i spend my time in comutter traffic since the area where i live doesnt have 'freeways'.
I remember the u joints r riveted together. just realized that maybe the shaft was already calibrated and balanced from the factory, and the mechanic probably forgot to get the shaft back to the same alignment. wat do you think?
I hope this does not affect the integrity of the new parts that i have already bought, particulary the central mounted bearing.
thats 1 thing i just realized as i took her out for a drive again. which joints need to be looked at? the rear driveshafts? the one on the prop shaft? I live in brunei, a small country on borneo island. As soon as i get this problem solved the torsion bars will come on, changing to angel eyes and new fog lamps...i am considering the fan clutch delete mod to my car but have not seen this mod on any other bmw car (3series or otherwise). since it can get very hot and humid here with the temp hovering around 32-33 deg cel and humidity above 80%. i spend my time in comutter traffic since the area where i live doesnt have 'freeways'.
I remember the u joints r riveted together. just realized that maybe the shaft was already calibrated and balanced from the factory, and the mechanic probably forgot to get the shaft back to the same alignment. wat do you think?
I hope this does not affect the integrity of the new parts that i have already bought, particulary the central mounted bearing.
Actually bad u-joints will destroy the drive shaft bearing. Well it destroys what holds the bearing in place. A good repair shop should tell you where you could get the driveshaft rebuilt/balanced.
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took her out to the shop again. and this time they suggested they take the driveshaft apart to check for problems.. i don't really want to do that as they still haven't figured out whether its the driveshaft, u-joints or other sneaky bearing. the unfortunate thing living here is that there are a lot of people who are very experienced with japanese cars but they tend to shy away when it comes to the beemer. the agent here is very friendly and helpful but their approach to fix this problem is for me to throw money at it and just buy a new driveshaft. experience tells me to follow the agents advise but i dont want to do dat till i have exhausted all other options short of rebuilding the driveshaft and the u-joints at a risk. thanks for your help, it was much appreaciated.
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trust me just replace the drive shaft sounds crummy but i tried all of thee above before i changed mine and it ened up costing me all lot more than if i would have just replaced it in the start .sorry for the bad news
06-14-2006, 08:15 AM
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