fredel
New Member
Hello all,
I am restoring my E9 from 1971 (3.0 Csa). At this moment I am working on my frontsuspension. I ordered the Bilstein B6 shocks. They do fit, but they cant be mounted. because my suspension is not standard. I did call woth Wallot & Nesch (Germany) and at requiest I sent them pictures. The send me an email with the following:
the struts you have are CSL Motorsport ones with a so called up side down shockabsorber.
We don´t have that kind of shockabsorber.
Does anyone regonize this problem? It seems no one has those shocks, or have seen them.
At Wallot they say that the suspesion is very rear and special.
Picture 1: the old shock and the new Bilstein, they look different
Picture 2: the old one has a screw at the bottom, the new one has not
Picture 3: the old "housing"has no way (rifling?) to screw /fasten the new one
Picyure 4: the screw at the new Bilstein.
Hope to hear from you,
Regards Fred (Netherlands)
www.bmwe9.nl
P.S. I hope you understand my writing
I am restoring my E9 from 1971 (3.0 Csa). At this moment I am working on my frontsuspension. I ordered the Bilstein B6 shocks. They do fit, but they cant be mounted. because my suspension is not standard. I did call woth Wallot & Nesch (Germany) and at requiest I sent them pictures. The send me an email with the following:
the struts you have are CSL Motorsport ones with a so called up side down shockabsorber.
We don´t have that kind of shockabsorber.
Does anyone regonize this problem? It seems no one has those shocks, or have seen them.
At Wallot they say that the suspesion is very rear and special.
Picture 1: the old shock and the new Bilstein, they look different
Picture 2: the old one has a screw at the bottom, the new one has not
Picture 3: the old "housing"has no way (rifling?) to screw /fasten the new one
Picyure 4: the screw at the new Bilstein.
Hope to hear from you,
Regards Fred (Netherlands)
www.bmwe9.nl
P.S. I hope you understand my writing