hook is hooked under here it's tight it's going to hold the engine up you can give this sucker a little bit of tension otherwise once you lower the subframe the engine will drop a little bit and it'll kind of kind of scare you sorry for the interruption but we have to thank this week's sponsor which is oem URL_TOKEN i love this website they've got super fast two-day shipping they've got multiple warehouses all over the u.s so they can get your parts out to you as fast as possible and i love their website it's just it's well categorized there's not a lot of extra stuff it's just all the most popular parts that you're gonna need and they're the oem brands they do also have some quality aftermarket brands as well if that's what you're looking for so if you are in the market for bmw parts of any kind please check out URL_TOKEN so before we get into this job i'm going to spend a little bit of time talking about the job because the prep for the job is just as important as the job itself i want you to understand the job and and what it entails so there's there's a few videos on youtube already doing this and i believe in most of them people just end up taking the sub frame out completely and you know that's one way to go and you can do it that way the thing is it that's a lot of extra work and you don't re you probably don't need to do that because to do that what's involved is you actually have to disconnect the steering joints from the steering knuckles let's take a look over here actually at that so on on this car you actually have two um lower suspension members here and here in addition to the tie rod so you have to either disconnect all three of those from here or you need to disconnect the tire rod from here and then disconnect the suspension leaks from here and here which is what i would do because that's a little easier if you did it here you'd have to bang on these uh ball joints in order to knock them loose you have to bang right here where they're going through and you know that's a lot of work and you got to do it both sides and it's like that's a pain in the butt here you don't have to do that just take the bolt loose and they'll just drop right down and you know you'll leave the the the knuckle behind you'll take the sub frame out so you know you'd have to do that and then you have the problem of the steering rack um now the steering rack needs to stay attached to the subframe no matter what because otherwise you're going to have to get an alignment after that if you disconnect these or take these bolts loose right here your subframe is just going to be loose and there's no locating pins or dowels at all right here this is all that it bolts to so if you take those loose then your alignment is immediately jacked and you got to go get the thing aligned afterwards so why spend another eighty dollars you know what i mean just leave that connected is far better to just disconnect the line from the steering and drain the power steering fluid and just fill it up with power you know more power steering fluid that's just that's
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