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Originally Posted by Clavurion
M12x1,0 mm nipple on front left side connection only. (The point where those lines could be mixed.) Others should be M10x1,0 mm. If those old nipples are not badly corroded you can reuse them but of course preferably renew them too.
https://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/sho...diagId=34_0980 |
You know, I've had that page up and looked at it many times, even clicked on the M12 hardware to see where it was in the diagram. But I'm so busy/frazzled these days it didn't register in the proper section of my brain. Thank you for hitting me over the head with it. So just one of those M12 deals, and only in that one spot. Perfect.
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Originally Posted by andrewwynn
I just looked at my photo album and I marked the pipes red and blue for port and starboard. Port is the odd size.
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Cool, cool.
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Originally Posted by andrewwynn
Prices came way down on the port pipe. I'd have bought oem prefab. They don't come bent you still have to bend them.
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Yah, the OEM lines are priced decently right now, but learning the new OEM lines are not pre-bent was really the tipping point for me. If I'm going to have to bend my own lines, I might as well bend them with material that is much easier to bend and is more corrosion resistant than factory steel to boot. Yah I'll have to flare my own lines and source hardware, but in the end I think I'll be much happier with this solution.
(I expect to have to replace a handful of plastic tube retaining clips as well.)
Cheers everyone, I'll report back how it went but won't have the full update ready to post to my build thread likely for years. I'm so far behind posting updates.
