E36 Disaster! Rebuilding My Dif … 

Imagine getting home, and your missus is just casually welding the diff in her drift car 👌🏼🤘🏼😂😂

The diff drop was actually funny! Not because I like seeing failure or damage, but because it’s simply 100% reality! You do stuff alone, think it won’t be difficult or heavy, and…bam! lol Best wishes from heart

So you don't have to pound on the ring gear, next time heat it up in the oven so it expands and drops right on the carrier.

if you don't have ring and pinion marking compound you can use just regular thick grease or anti-seize or caliper grease in a pinch. Just need something thick that isn't runny that you can see the pattern in. Clean/rinse it off really well afterward and you're golden.

🇦🇺 hello from aus , do Americans not use mini spool diff locks ?? It’s a locked diff mount that goes in an lsd to make it locked much rather than buying a full spool centre , small device that locks the axle ends together yeah-nah 🍻👍🏻

A lot of the early models (esp 93/94) came with a sport package or some call it the winter package with the LSD. As far as I have come across, they are usually auto and don’t have ASC+T - and they are 3.91 if auto - I’ve pulled a couple out of junkyards people walked right by. The rear sway bar tends to be thicker as well. I almost commented in the last video but figured one of those guys checked it already. I would be careful mixing and matching different parts. I’ve just changed bearings and it’s been all out of whack. The more stuff you keep the same the less play you will end up with, the less it clicks when you spin the input shaft the better lol - BTW on those side covers, the little tabs should be facing up to 12 o’clock cause there are holes that feed the oil to the bearings.

Collete has grown in her knowledge and what she can do is crazy from 4 years ago she's killing it!

Definitely a E36 Diff Expert/Builder Now, lol....so, more sick slides, and Some Door Bangin' Too Come🤞YaY!!,

" I got to figure how to get it on the ground " and instantly drops it. Completely makes sense 👍

Pro tip for working with a tall trans jack by yourself, Get a chain and wrap it around the arm of the lift to pick up whatever is on the transjack and then you can remove the trans jack and lower it to the ground. It worked in reverse as well. Get a small rolling cart to aid in moving things around.

Love this series It gives off hoonigan black bmw vibes Can't wait for the next episode

The 3.91 ist the oem diff on an e36 325i For drifting take a 4.10 diff from a 4 zylinder. They are often open ones.

To get heavy things off those tall stands use an engine hoist. Even with friends it will save your backs in the long run

Awesome job not letting anything slow you down. I love that you show the trial and error and show yourself working through it. But please be safe!

It's nice to see it doesn't always go to plan, because that is real life, lol. Great job overcoming, Collete.

The ring and pinion should be a matched set. You won't end up with a 3.91 if you dont swap the pinion as well. The ratio comes from the ring gear turning 1 time for every 3.91 revolutions of the pinion gear. Changing tooth counts will result in different ratios

Attitude is everything. You don't let anything get the better of you. Good job.

I love the fact you just dive into thing and you're not afraid to get your hands dirty and try things you've never done before.

Love that torque wrench sequence. 🔥

Stand on a table move the diff from the stand to the table, then move from table to the ground 🤙

A tip I learned a while back that might have helped you with that ring gear is warm it up a little bit, not excessively and it’ll expand a little bit then it should be a little bit easier to slip onto the diff core Great video tho 🤙 send it!

3.91 and 4.11 lsd is usually something you should be really happy to find. I collect BMW LSD's myself 🙂

Its the E36 drift queen of the compound 👍

I love the honesty and the well I'm here so let's do it attitude. 😂

Lower the lift down to its lowest locks, creeper underneath it & pry the diff out & let it drop onto a tire or lower it with a hydraulic floor jack because you only get a great spine once & you will miss it Rad build!

well the budget e36 might have been too good to be true! great job fighting through the unexpected and finally getting to slide it a bit at the end! loving the budget/quick build on this!

Tech tip leave diff cold cooler dry ice ring gear a lil warm torch and it slides on easier chase bolts let cool and then tighten away.

Attitude and style all rolled up in a pretty package. Love your work well done.

Awesome build so far and inspiring for someone who wants to build their first drift car thats its possible to build one on a budget

Nice work: I admit I ‘was’ judging when you removed those axle bolts and used a wire brush and removed zinc plating so they will rust. Those bolts from BMW are seriously $26 each if wanted to replace..

Awesome work I was confused at first on how you left the pinion gear in and it worked but then I remembered you used the same case as the LSD stock diff smart move. You must have heated seats in that car as well because usually you would get a LSD with a winder package. Also kinda surprised that wasn’t a 3.38 but maybe that was more of a M3 LSD for autos.

Cutest mechanic ever, well done

Just swapped and welded a 2008 G35 open diff with the 3.692 ratio for my z it is pretty sweet compared to the junk LSDs they come with not too hard at all definitely worth it for budget drift builds plus the better gear ratio made it noticeably quicker for cheap I would highly recommend if you have a z!!

Even if it's not ideal gear mesh, for a compound drift missile it'll be fine.

These videos have been such great timing since I just bought a junk e36 lol I too want to do as much myself as possible

Congratulations on completing the manual swap. Can’t wait to see the final look I already know you are going to paint it some neon colors. ❤

You may need to pull the chip out of the ecu - some e36 auto ecus won’t work right after a manual swap

Way to get your swaps done! Many kudos!!!

🔥🔥Notification squad 🔥🔥

E36 content FTW ! 🇩🇪

You did it just fine. I think it’ll work your theory is most likely correct you should be OK. Good luck

Good work Collete keep it up.

You are doing amazing job Collete keep it up ❤❤❤

I am not laughing at you!!! E36 videos are very entertaining. Amazing how you just dive in. Good for you!!

She's pretty much right as long as the same gears go back in with the same shims you shouldn't have to set backlash again. The ring and pinion are technically supposed to be together as a matching pair they are made specific to each other and wear to match each other. if you have to swap the carrier for different drive shift flange definitely put a new crush sleeve in or the bearings won't have proper tension you can't really get around that, just went through this exact thing last weekend welded is super fun compared to LSDs and cheap as heck if you get one from a good junk yard car look into different gear ratios from different years I got a slightly shorter ratio and my z is actually responsive and doesn't feel like it's sluggish

I thought you did a great job and the inspiration to tackle this diff change is really inspiring. I myself am thinking of getting a project car that is more affordable and an E36 looks great. Seriously great job Collete! Can't wait to see you send it in the E36! 🚗

I'm with ya mate. Lifts ruin ur back knees n all. 🤙

Awesome job! 🎉Makes me want to weld the diff on my F30 but it’s an lsd as well. So cool to see you take on all these jobs alone. Adam should have stayed up late to help lol.

I love the attitude…I’m not sure what I’m doing but F it and if it’s wrong I’ll just learn from it. Keep doing what you are doing. U r on of my favorite content creator

If I'm not mistaken, E36 325s with a "winter package" came with an LSD. I'm pretty sure it might've been the last non M BMW aside from the 435i ZHP that came with an LSD from factory

Hahahaha the dude with the wrench on the first start. HILARIOUS 😂😂😂

More E36 stuff!!!

Massive respect collette

You need a Barbie sized trans jack, and Barbie sized work benches. 🤪🤪🤪

SO PUMPED!!!❤❤

I can't wait to see what you do with the paint, interior styling and livery! This is the type of content that I started following you for, when you started the Z. Thrilled to see a new car unfold!

That’s a sick pair of NCO of the Marine corps pair of jeans you got 🫡

"E36 THINGS!!" Yes! 🤣

Nothing wrong with undoing stuck nuts/bolts with an impact gun. In fact, I don't think there's a better way to undo them. 🤔 Breaker bar either works on seized stuff or breaks it, in my experience.

Amazing and such awesome job on this video too

I learned how to manual swap an e36 with this video😭😭

Damn that loud pinging was 😂

Great work really!!

We love you!❤

E36 is pure❤ Greets from Germany E36 M Coupe S45 Nordschleifen Rider

ILOVEYOUMYPRINCESS. .XOXOX

Adam the next morning: Where did all the e36 diffs go? Lmao

you painted the underbody now changing the diff :D, you put new one refresh it now when its out

Well those bmw oem lsd diffs are around 1000$ 🤔 They can be edited to be 75% locking with adding couple more friction washers, nice differentials in just road use but cant handle constant beating in dry asphalt.

Buy a spool. And work on the bench. The floor is for walking on!

Well Ms.Davis...without adversity with builds there is no learning, not everything goes to plan. You'll be fine, a dropped diff here, a LSD there....etc. Stuff happens and you bounce back...that's how this goes as I'm sure you're well aware of.

Your supposed to heat up the crown wheel so it expands and just falls on nicely, Rebuilding diffs is not something that easily perfected but for a owl slab car like that, anything will do rightly but use really should watch a few videos atleast on the topic b4 takeling a job youve never done b4, but really should of just left the lsd in it 😅

You’re what dreams are made of❤

Dont really watch you normally but i really like the e36 video series

Damn them LSDs are getting mad expensive 😂😂

I love the name E36 ❤❤❤

Yeet!!!

that LSD worth 1k$ in Poland xD and there is 2 of them on floor hahah

You should have had that closer to the table

I'm amazed why everyone welds their diffs. Minispools are like $50 and will never break

Just a diff-erent kinda party

Always use a impact

Since you were using the impact gun you didnt need to put up the handbreak up 😂

Ring gear goes in oven for a bit lol

The cutest capable chick on the interwebs conquering another first 🤘😎❤️

Notification squad checking in 💞💞

Let's Go Collette! Sorry I'm late.😭

3.91 lsd sells for close to $600 especially to the track and scca community

old school trick is to use lipstick for gear paint

Notification SQUAD!!!🔥🔥🔥

Does Sammit know you stole his Gas Cap?

Are the pinion gear tooth count the same? If different, that can mess up the gear ratio

Yayyyyyyy 🙌

I broke my diff like that too! Well except mines turbo and it broke from wheel hop....

Spool sitch

You made it look easy 😁, maybee it was a lil RU-vid magic 🙃... Looked like a pro though, now you can do it again 😁

Your amazing ❤

Could we get a fleet update kinda lost track of how many cars u got

No lock Tite on the ring gear😢

Ive Like your last few videos. Your on video talking feels more realistic.