Can any of the M50/M52 builders out there tell me what the bracket labeled 3 in this diagram is for
http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts...61&hg=11&fg=10
I cleaned and painted it up, bolted it back on but when I came to trial fit various components I couldn't find anything that relied on it so was planning on losing it as it's just another thing to get in the way of an already tangled mess.
I'm not using the water pipe coming off the back of the head so I wondered if it supported that but the RealOEM diagrams for the coolant system suggest not.