E30 Vibration Dampers

[trinidee247]

I have a picture of this vibration damper that's still jimmied to manual transmission output flange. Can anyone tell me how do i get that out?
I am hoping not to use my puller on it because it feels like half plastic half steel when I flexed it with a wrench. And I'm hoping that I do not have to get to that bolt in the middle because I need to buy a deep socket to get at it.

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[rcsoundn1]

I am not 100% sure what I am looking at, but from what I see, that bolt has to come off. I may be wrong though

[ahrensNW]

You're going to have to take the output flange nut off to pull that out buddy.

[TobyB]

Huh. Mine was on the driveshaft, not the trans flange.

But yeah, remove flange, pound out studs, replace with shorter studs.

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[Flash]

30mm deep drive, thin wall, impact socket will make short work of it if you have an impact gun. They can be pretty frozen. I had to buy a socket for this son-of-a-bitch bolt and have it machined down.

[TSI]

No, no need to remove the flange. Just pound the guibo bolts out, it will drop out. Make sure it doesn't fall on you though, because it is heavy.

[TimeMachinE30]

Mine is on the DS, too. Would it do any good there even?