Automatic → Manual

Video Description

- Turn on subtitles/CC's if you'd like explanations on what I'm doing throughout the video. - This is my Girlfriend's 1986 528e. Not the purple one, the silver one. The automatic transmission has been having intermittent issues for the past year, but it's always kept going until just recently. She got home with the car after a long roadtrip and immediately after, it stopped going forwards. We decided that instead of putting in another used automatic transmission, which would likely have issues soon enough, we'd swap in a 5 speed manual transmission. So, I picked up another 1986 528e in the next state over and brought it home. The car is a basket case with structural rust issues, and it's purple, but it has all parts for converting our car to a manual transmission. Chapters: 00:00 - Delivering the parts car 02:54 - Harvesting the 5 speed 11:35 - Disassembling the auto e28 22:17 - Installing the clutch pedal 32:37 - Swapping in a limited-slip differential 46:06 - Swapping radiators 48:59 - Rear main seal replacement 51:01 - 5 speed maintenance 54:24 - Another used 5 speed 01:00:26 - Installing clutch 01:02:20 - Installing the 5 speed 01:05:52 - Fixing/installing the shifter 01:12:13 - Driveshaft/Exhaust/Final installations 01:16:50 - First Start 01:18:29 - Finishing touches 01:20:57 - First Drive 01:25:24 - Parts car wrap up 01:31:12 - Cats