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Post by Phil-E30 » Fri Dec 30, 2016 6:48 pm

Hi guys,

For anyone that has done the throttle/ICV valve clean or TPS change, you will have come across the horrible grip clamp things BMW have used to secure the hoses in place. I intended to replace all of these with jubliee clips whilst doing this job, any thoughts on that? Has anyone else ditched those woeful clamps? I spoke to a bloke at the stealer parts dept. today and he said "all our guys do it" when I asked if they replaced the shite ones with jubliee clips!

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Post by VRSteve » Fri Dec 30, 2016 7:09 pm

Not done it on mine, but did it on a friends M3, and it worked, just be careful not to foul the throttle linkage with them
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Post by Phil-E30 » Fri Dec 30, 2016 7:16 pm

Cheers Steve. I'll take care on where I put the jubilee clip tensioner bit. Figured it'd be far easier than using those shocking clamp things again, the fact BMW mechs don't even use them says a lot....
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Post by TomK » Fri Dec 30, 2016 8:31 pm

If you want to keep it OEM look you could order the M5 airbox side clamps which are jubilee with a nice bmw logo on it. 50p each or so from recollection.
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Post by Phil-E30 » Fri Dec 30, 2016 8:54 pm

That's a great shout Tom. Ahead of actually doing the work, do I need 6 clips or 12? I see two metal bands on the hoses in some pictures.
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Post by TomK » Fri Dec 30, 2016 9:15 pm

Just the 6.
As Steve says, be slightly mindful of I think it is cylinder three and it's throttle linkage.
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Post by Phil-E30 » Fri Dec 30, 2016 9:53 pm

Cheers Tom. Will let you know once all finished!
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Post by Phil-E30 » Sat Dec 31, 2016 1:53 pm

TomK wrote:Just the 6.
As Steve says, be slightly mindful of I think it is cylinder three and it's throttle linkage.
Hi Tom,

Sorry to ask more questions, but I was wondering if you knew:

- what size the 6 jubilee clips need to be for the manifold?
- how many (and what size) jubilee clips I need for the hoses attached to the ICV?
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Post by AndyBeech » Sat Dec 31, 2016 3:45 pm

ICV already had jubilee clips on it, shouldn't need replacing IIRC.

I got these from Amazon for the inlet, worked fine for me, maybe a bit more than the BMW ones though!

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Post by Phil-E30 » Sat Dec 31, 2016 4:24 pm

Brilliant. Cheers for that Andy.
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Post by Babw » Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:48 am

Would I need a special tool to remove the existing proprietary BMW clamps?

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Post by VRSteve » Mon Jan 02, 2017 3:47 pm

I just forced them off with a flat blade screwdriver.
Doesn't matter if you butcher them if you are going to replace them
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Post by zmaster007 » Tue Jan 03, 2017 9:08 pm

Babw wrote:Would I need a special tool to remove the existing proprietary BMW clamps?
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Post by Beedub » Tue Jan 03, 2017 10:06 pm

i use worm clamps here...

they need careful alignment but work well..... you can just see the lead clamps on the front TB and their position. They hold pressure well, and i haven't Re-Tq'd in a year, still holding 8.5lbs of boost...

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