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Engine + Driveline / Re: e30 M42 rebuild no oil flow

« on: June 22, 2016, 08:09:55 AM »

I fixed the issue last night but incase anyone comes in here looking i will answer your questions. Pump mechanism is complete. spring is present, as for hte intake manifold not sure what that would have to do with oil pressure or flow but yes installed and torqued with new gaskets.

Now for the fix, after dumping in almost 2 gallons of oil and taking out the spark plugs and cranking for 10, 6 second cycles the pump came to life and started to burble out air and oil. Slapped everything else back together now she is purring along just fine.

Obviously i will be draining the oil pan and refilling to the proper level.

Thanks everyone for your help.

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Engine + Driveline / Re: e30 M42 rebuild no oil flow

« on: June 16, 2016, 11:01:18 AM »

How would i go about packing the pump? Seeing how it is inaccessible without removing the majority of front engine timing components and the head from the engine.

Unless I just need to remove the pickup screen/tube and pack the grease in that way?
 

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Engine + Driveline / e30 M42 rebuild no oil flow

« on: June 16, 2016, 09:55:01 AM »

Not too active on this forum spend more time over at r3v, but I have come seeking all your wisdom. I just finished rebuilding my m42 all new gaskets, o-rings, cleaned up the mess under the intake, rebuilt the power steering pump, a/c compressor, and all the timing components. I would also like to state this is not the first time i have rebuilt a BMW motor, with having successfully rebuilt an m62b44, s52b30, m20b25, and an s62b50; however this is the first time i have had a serious issue upon firing.

I have NO oil flow.

She cranks over fine did that a couple times for in total about 2 minutes plugged the fuel pump fuse back in fires up but all you heard was the tappets clacking away and the oil light stayed on, shut it down after 10-20 seconds. pulled the fuel pump fuse and removed the oil filter cover, cranked the engine and nothing, no flow coming in or out of the filter housing.

I am next going to remove the lower oil pan and check to see if the oil pickup screen is clogged, and what the upper pan gasket looks like to see if that shifted.

any help would be GREATLY appreciated thank  you.
 

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Engine + Driveline / Re: E30 crank no fire...sort of

« on: November 02, 2015, 09:03:45 AM »

Thank you very much Dave all very helpful I have another vehicle to get me around but should be able to start tracking down the issue this week/coming weekend

I have one from my one of my other e30's 1990 325i

which is the one for the 1991 e30 318is

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Engine + Driveline / E30 crank no fire...sort of

« on: October 29, 2015, 04:40:27 AM »

Good morning gentlemen,

This is gonna be a long one so grab some popcorn.

While I am not a very active member on m42club I have been lurking on here for quite sometime. I bought my 1991 318is back in 2004 and starting looking at your forum around 2009ish, so a while. Anyways on to the question at hand.

About 4 years ago my 1991 318is started developing an odd issue where every once in a while the car would crank over then stop, crank then stop, and finally usually the third time it would crank and fire and run fine. This happened for just about 5 months until it finally decided to not crank anymore. When this happened I figured that the battery just died and i needed a new one. so off i went to get a new battery and all was well, or so i thought. I drove it for another month then stored it for the winter by taking the new battery out of it and leaving it on a battery tender all winter.

Come spring time popped the battery in and VROOM started like a champ.."Great all my problems are behind me".

Fast forward 2 months and the same issue starts arising vehicle wont start first time and eventually wont crank at all. However this time I check the battery and have full voltage and amperage is fine so i figure it must be the starter. Order a "new", rebuilt, starter and while removing the old one discover that the brass bushing at the end of the starter wheel that guides the wheel onto the flywheel is completely missing on the old one. So i figured that was another issue and put the new starter in and off i go.

A month later check my volt meter while driving discover i am only getting at most 13.1V from the alternator so i replace that with the assumption it is bad. keep driving and all seems good voltage while driving is between 13.5V and 14.2V.

Near the end of that season about a year ago now it develops a new symptom every once in a while the car when you sit in to start it you will turn the Key and NOTHING, not even a click from the starter.

Now for the odd part, I go to check the voltage at the battery and it shows 12.6V. when the key is turned to accesories or on everything in the car works fine. Figure it must be a dead cell in the battery so i get it jumped by a friend and it fires up fine and drives fine. Bring the car to my house pull the battery, test it with a load tester test just as good as a brand new battery.

SAID FUCK it put it away for the winter and took it out in the spring again this year and had NO ISSUES, until this week.

Get in the car after work turn the key and nothing. Accesories still work fine but nothing when trying to crank.

However, just now when a friend jumped it for me I tried to drive off and the Car began to BUCK LIKE A BASTARD, with the ABS light flashing came to a stop and all was fine, started driving again and BUCKED again, let it run for 25 minutes with me holding it at 2000 RPM to get the battery charged by the new alternator, shut it off and again NOTHING no crank.

Please someone help I am very quickly running out of ideas on where to go next to diagnose this vehicle

Thanks In Advance

-Car addict

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Engine + Driveline / ticking noise trust me this one is different

« on: March 27, 2013, 12:16:22 PM »

Any idea's?

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Engine + Driveline / Re: ticking noise trust me this one is different

« on: March 24, 2013, 09:00:11 PM »

 tried everything from 5w-30 10w-30 10w-40, up to 15w-50. no change with any of them in terms of engine noise.

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Engine + Driveline / ticking noise trust me this one is different

« on: March 24, 2013, 01:22:27 PM »

Hello everyone, I have had my 318is for a little over 8 years now for the majority of that time I have been on R3Vlimited. Since I have owned it I have loved my car but the time has come to finally get to the bottom of where this damn ticking noise is coming from the top end of the motor.

I have replaced everything that could be associated with engine tick, timing chain, timing chain sprockets, timing chain tensioner, timing chain rails, and all 16 lifters (incase anyone is curious no they are not cheap). Now my motor runs silent up to a point. If the vehicle is driven on the highway or engine speed is sustained about 2,500 rpms for more than a minute or two it will start ticking, and then after driving around back roads for 2-3 minutes it will go silent again.

It will also tick if I have gone for a long drive, and when I shut it off then start it within 30 minutes it will tick, if I wait more than an hour to restart there is no ticking.

And please I am not going to just deal with the noise after spending as much as I have to fix this issue I will get it sorted even if it bankrupts me. I just need an idea where to go next.

M42club I come needing your expertise, as to my next step.