electrical and ignition Help Please Before I Wreck Something.

[PaulTWinterton]

I'm about to clean and paint inside the nose and I can't figure out how to remove this grommet without destroying it.  Anyone?

 

Also...what is that connector?

 

Thanks for reading and replying

 

 

 

[Guest_anonymous]

The grommet just sits in the sheet metal. It will pull out.

The wires shown in the connector are for the side running light filament or bulb. The other wire in the rubber tube is the turn signal indicator filament or bulb.

The plastic piece shown on my car ('74) is a connector. I just tapped it for a city light in my front low beam reflector

Edited March 16, 2015 by dar_on_

[PaulTWinterton]

Dar_on_, Pull straight up?  Is it just a straight channel.  The backside of the grommet seems to butt up against the lip.

 

Why the sidelight connector? Was it meant to be capable of connecting another circuit?  Otherwise it doesn't look like it's necessary.

[Guest_anonymous]

Yes. The grommet has a channel. The sheet metal is just a U. Pull up.

Perhaps the connector was originally intended to use for city lights in the euro models and the side marker on the US model. Hence the absence of a side marker in the euro flush mount turn signals as opposed to the early US flush mount signals which have two bulbs. I do not know the answer. Purely speculation. Those with model change history knowledge will know.

[Solarphil]

Paul, Dar_on_, a question about the rubber tube in the background -- is that original? Is that the nasal-cannula-lookin-like thingie that terminates under the turn signal in the fender -- It's supposed to be a wiring channel? My PO had it run more like a drain, dangling down into the space behind the fender.

Learned something new...and another thing for the to-do list ;-)

[John_in_VA]

There is a drain, dangling from the bottom of the top of the fender where the turn signal is attached.  There is also a similar piece for the wiring.  Both parts appear to have the same # now.

02 Grommet -63-13-8-654-175

07 Grommet - 63-13-8-654-175

http://realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do?model=ST12&mospid=47140&btnr=63_0491&hg=63&fg=10

[PaulTWinterton]

is that original? Is that the nasal-cannula-lookin-like thingie that terminates under the turn signal in the fender -- It's supposed to be a wiring channel?

Yes. John_in_VA answered it.