BMW center carrier bearing works!

Well folks, about a month after my poor baby broke it is all together
again.  With the help of Steve B. Bruce B. and Graydon S. my 90Q is
running again with about $50 dollars  of parts.  I rebuilt my center
drive-shaft (carrier bearing and u-joint only).  The bearing was gotten
through GPR and is BMW part# 26121209532. It is the bearing including the
rubber surround and the mounting bracket as one piece, total cost $35.  
I successfully removed the bolt which holds the yoke to the foreshaft with
a 17mm box end(this required removing the zerk grease fitting from
u-joint) but found it too difficult to get the yoke off(no way to
press/pry/hammer/pull etc.). With Graydon's help I took apart the u-joint
and discovered it to be fairly "trashed" and stiff.  The only u-joint I
could find locally was a non-greasable unit made by Borg-Warner($15). If
anyone
has a part # for a greasable u-joint please let me know for future
reference.  After re-assembling everything I cleaned out the CV's,
regreased them and installed on the car. I sort of assumed that the
drive-shaft would self-align and it did!  The car runs great. All in all
it was a simple procedure, just a pain to get the necassary parts.

Brendan Rudack			rudack@ucsub.Colorado.EDU
'88 90Q                         brudack@student.flint.umich.edu
Fenton, Michigan USA

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