E60/61 - GS6-53DZ M57TU gearbox — BMW
E60/61 - GS6-53DZ M57TU gearbox on BMW: 70 steps, engines M57D25TU, M57D30TU, M57D30TUTOP. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for BMW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: platform codes 525D, |, 530D, 535D
- Timing position: the crankshaft or camshaft is set and locked during this job
Don't miss
- Do not disconnect the hydraulic lines
🔧 Engine codes this applies to
📐 44 workshop diagrams for M57D25TU
Real factory drawings for this job — timing marks, bolt locations and routing. Locked in the free view.
📋 Procedure
Preparation and removal
- Check that the dowel pins/sleeves for centering the engine/gearbox are still in place
- Clean the gearbox input shaft splines
- Apply grease to the gearbox input shaft splines
- Transmission jack:
- Manual transmission:
- Hexagonal bolts:
- Remove the reinforcement plate
- Remove the engine lower covers
- Remove the exhaust pipe
- Steel
- Single stage:
- Stage 1:
- Stage 2:
- Aluminium
- Remove the bolts
- ZNS bolts and nuts:
- Remove the exhaust pipe bracket(s)
- Support the gearbox with a trolley jack
- Stage 1:
- Remove the rear gearbox support
- Gearbox rear support:
- Loosen the propeller shaft bearing
- Secure to the vehicle
- Remove the clutch slave cylinder
- Note: Do not disconnect the hydraulic lines
- Remove the flywheel inspection cover plate
- Disconnect the reversing light switch
- Remove the clip
- Disconnect the gear-shift rods
- Remove the locking pins
- Remove the gear-shift control
- Remove the engine/gearbox attaching bolts
- Separate the gearbox from the engine
- Remove the gearbox
Installation and checks
- Refit the gearbox
- Align the engine/gearbox
- Refit the engine/gearbox attaching bolts
- Reconnect the gear-shift control
- Refit the locking pins
- Reconnect the gear-shift rods
- Fit the shims
- Apply grease
- Refit the clip
- Reconnect the reversing light switch
- Refit the flywheel inspection cover plate
- Refit the clutch slave cylinder
- Tighten the propeller shaft bearing
- Reconnect the propeller shaft
- Refit the rear gearbox support
- Remove the trolley jack
- Refit the exhaust pipe bracket(s)
- Refit the nuts
- Refit the bolts
- Refit the heat shield(s)
- Refit the diesel particulate filter
- Refit the exhaust pipe
- Refit the engine lower covers
- Refit the reinforcement plate
- Reconnect the battery
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TorqFix was built by a mechanic — after a 2,700 km drive with five roadside repairs that no diagnostic tool could explain.
The figures on this page come from manufacturer workshop documentation and are shown as they are. The page is assembled automatically from that data — it is not written by an AI. The AI works in the chat, where it answers for your specific car. It writes nothing here.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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