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Originally Posted by raleedy
In 2001, I had the selling dealer replace the short block on my E34 530i (a 3-liter V8 for those who may not remember). It was a struggle from beginning to end. The car was a bit unusual even back then in that it was a 5-speed MT. The dealer's service department lacked the tools to work on it; they borrowed some and broke them, and then got their own -- an engine stand, in particular, since the dual-mass flywheel that goes with the MT was fatter than the one for the AT version and wouldn't fit in the regular stand. In the end, with everything back together, the car would pop out of 2nd and 4th gears under acceleration. Since those two gears are in the same plane in the shift pattern (the one where pulling the shift lever toward the back pushes the forks forward toward the engine) I was convinced that components had gone back together wrong or misaligned. The dealer steadfastly denied this, and the proposed cure was a new transmission.
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I have to agree with the dealer. The transmission internals aren't touched when a short block is replaced. The bell housing is disconnected from the engine block, clutch flywheel, pressure plate and clutch plate are removed with all that stuff being re attached after the shortblock is swapped. Can't see how the internal operation of the vehicle is affected unless somehow the shift tower wasn't aligned on the top of the transmission when everything went back together, which is unlikely as I'm betting there are alignment pins. Who knows though ...