Transmission issues

[Northwestdriven]

Originally Posted by williamx5

That is a good question... I get a part number when looking on realoem dot com for the extension shaft for our 99-03 pre facelift X5's... It doesn't show a breakdown for the 04-06 version... It might be completely different... However, some other BMW's might use a different set-up...

Might know more when you pull the TC... If you have a camera handy, pictures would be well liked... Everyone loves pictures!!!

Cheers!!

Well it turns out that it was the output shaft that was the problem. But it wasn't that it was wrong, it was that I hadn't put in the entire shaft in. Here's how the trans shaft looked as soon as I pulled the TC off

As you can see it is missing most of the shaft. It should look like this

When I picked up the transmission I had not realized that I was missing the part of the transmission output shaft that pulls off. Is this called the output shaft

or is it the shaft that stays connected to the trans? Either way as soon as I went back to the shop and asked if they still had it, put it on and bolted everything back in the transmission worked like a charm! Thanks again to everyone for the input, especially Williamx5! Thank you sir!