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DISCUSSION => General Topics => Topic started by: 76m2002 on May 01, 2012, 09:13:44 AM

Title: Help with axle lock ring
Post by: 76m2002 on May 01, 2012, 09:13:44 AM

I've just replace a half-shaft on our '91 318is.  Got the car on the ground, axle bolt torqued, and I'm stumped about installing the lock ring.  What is the secret method of hammering the ring into the depressions without pulling the opposite side free?  I've managed to get the ring hammered into two of the three depressions, but it always pulls free when I go for the third.

Title: Help with axle lock ring
Post by: bmwman91 on May 01, 2012, 12:15:02 PM

I used a socket, forget the size. Put the open end on the lock ring & hammer it in with that!