im pissed off and i want to slap my self!

[deutschman]

so im driving along and i start hearing a clang clang clang from my right front strut tower. so im like i shit what the fuck is going wrong now! so i drive home and park the car. next morning i lift it up and take a gander. so im lifting the little blue protective boot up the bilstein strut when i see something missing. can any one guess what it was?


needless to say i felt like a dumb ass when i saw this because it means that i did not tighten it down to speck when i installed the shit!
so next friday i invite all the e30 owners to come over to my house and slap me.

[CorvallisBMW]

ooooh missing lock collar? Don't worry man, it happens. I did it once on my very first suspension job. Just pull it apart and fix 'er up.

[golde30]

huh? i dont see anything missing. looks like you didnt tighten that collar nut enough though. did you only hand tighten it?

[kid325e]

classy. really classy.

unfortunately i can't come over and slap you so..

Put her back together and get back to rollin.

[deutschman]

yeah. not really missing but it is not where it should be! pissed me off! i didn't want to spend all day doing this. i dont even have an impact wrench to take the spring assembly apart.

[TurkE30]

eh San Francisco is a lond drive...but good thing u found out what was wrong or something worse would have happened...Get that fixed!!!

[Julien]

long flat head screwdriver+hammer... done in 25 minutes

[Jesse30]

i will slap you at bimmerfest.

[Turf1600]

Mine did that even after I tightened it properly.

[deutschman]

i will slap you at bimmerfest.

lol! ill be there. just write it down so you don't forget! hahaha.
i got it all apart, and am fixing it right now. wasn't that hard. just annoying.

[deutschman]

long flat head screwdriver+hammer... done in 25 minutes

i wish i had thought about that before i took everything apart! well i guess i know for next time...

[stevofthahill]

Mine did that even after I tightened it properly.

Mine did it too, and it took me forever to track down the clunk, because I had pretty much replaced every front suspension component before realizing what it was.

[erik325i]

long flat head screwdriver+hammer... done in 25 minutes

Even better:
Just tighten it with a pipe wrench. You can fit the pipe wrench through thr spring, and it's more leverage than trying to pound on it with a screwdriver and hammer.

[gearheadE30]

Pipe wrench all the way. I should probably check mine as I just finished up the new suspension.

[Pinepig]

Mine did that even after I tightened it properly.

Yep, Jean has had it happen twice and so have I.