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      10-27-2018, 04:22 PM   #45
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Reviving this thread to ask a question about the transfer case drain/fill....

In order to get to the drain/fill plugs of the transfer case, the BMW TIS procedures say to remove the transmission brace. Did any of you do this? I can't see how you could get access to the drain/fill plugs if you don't. And if you did remove it, did you support the transmission?

I started to remove it, but since I did not have a transmission brace, and I saw quite a bit of movement of the transmission, I stopped. My car is a 2013 X3 xDrive28i if it matters. But looking at the BMW procedures it does not seem like it matters between my X3 and the xDrive35i variant.

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