1982 240d

I'm now on day two of trying to pull my starter...with a twist!

The twist is that I had been fiddling with the vaccum, and accidentally disco'd a line that made the windows work. I turned the engine off, and reconnected it. Went to turn it back on, and the started was kaput.

So, It is the hottest three day window of the year so far, and my car is stuck in a parking lot outside of my work...with the windows down!!!

!!

I pulled the battery, tray, and air filter yesterday and then tried to get the 10mm Allen bolts out. Simply could not do it. They would not budge. I was at work with no tools, so I spent the majority of the day arranging a ride to go get my tools, and then getting a ride to the autozone to get the new starter.

But, I don't have a breaker bar in my tool collection, so I ended up being stranded for the second timein one day last night at around 9pm.

I borrowed my neighbor's breaker bar and got both of the 10mm allens right off this morning. Yeah!

And, then I tried to move it forward and realized that there is a bracket stopping me. I got the top 10mm bolt out with ease. The bottom one seems utterly impossible to move?! There is about 4 inches of room, maximum, and there's only about 15 degrees to move it in. But, Ijust can't see how this is even possible to get out, as there is no way I'm going to get any leverage using a tiny wrench.

I would love to use a socket, but even my little tiny 3/8 socket doesn't fit in there (at the head).

I though, well, maybe I can just pull the whole bracket off. I started with the bottom 17mm bolt from underneath. Stuck as hell. But, I could get the breaker bar to it, and got it right off. The top one, however, is a whole different story. I just can't seem to get at it at all! I tried a universal joint on the breaker bar, but I just can't get it in there and doing much of anything.

It is forecasted to rain this afternoon, and my windows are down, and I have a pretty darn nice interior on the old girl, and I am officially freaking out.