naw, i got the bottom ones okay, actually ended up just having to shear off the cotter pin. the top one was giving me the gruff. the strut itself has a miniscule 8mm end, and the nylon nut it 19mm. wth? had to use a pipe wrench between the spring to free the strut to spindle fastener. Then, with the strut end(it was blown and getting trashed) in the vise and a vise grip on the 8mm end, assisted by copious amounts of PB Blaster, I was able to just crack the nut with an long box 19mm. whew.
are you a kamaaina? i got this the other day. i was 2 months, 2 days old
wow. what a video... i almost choked up... are you richard sullivan or? if you're on oahu, I live in Kapahulu and would like to talk 02s anytime. 916 799 6607
-ken
i am not sullivan. we used to live in lanikai, hence the 1453aalapapa. now we live in north texas. i went to kailua elem/inter/high, wasted 6 years, then grad uh manoa in 73. we started the bmw car club of hawaii way back when. stan ahn, darrell bareng(1st president), gerard simoes, geoff and elarka yuen, peter and lynette char, roland and susan thom, mike lau, dennis tanimoto, this was about when the 320i first came out, like 1976. we miss the food