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onovakind67 has described everything very well and it will work for E12 also. I did such swap some years ago. I addition i may say that the thickness of the drfiveshafts of E28 vary depending on which engine the car was equiped. You'd better go for subframe from m30 car. They are all with thicker dr...

I have made such conversion on my 528i. But except the gearbox i swapped also the rear axle. Gearbox, driveshaft, rear axle - all from E28 528i. Everything is plug and play, except the rear antisway bar, for which u have to make mounting points. It is easy. I converted the car to use E28 electronic ...

You will not break it. Just take a sharp blade and do it carefully.

D. is right. If the car had been in reverse gear, there would be no trouble rolling it backwards. But if the car had been in any other gear there is a pretty good chance the chain to had slipped off 2-3 teeth. That would explain your power loss. I think now there is no other way, but to remove that ...