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Site and club discussion / Spam PM warning.

« on: March 04, 2010, 04:41:19 AM »

I just received this:

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I believe that it is itself Spam trying to get me to link to that exe file.

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Engine + Driveline / Source of timing chain rattle discovered.

« on: April 16, 2009, 06:46:53 PM »

Timing chain and sprockets were all changed 4 years, 100K ago.
Odd that that stuf seems to be broken off, unless it was never there in the first place.
I've never found half a stud anywhere.

I'm probably going to break the car for bits.

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Engine + Driveline / Source of timing chain rattle discovered.

« on: April 15, 2009, 11:41:07 AM »

The crank bolt is usually very tight.
I've made up a special tool using 2 bits of angle iron with holes in the end. These bolt to the crank pulley bolt holes, making a sort of V shape sticking out onto the chassis leg. That gives you something to stop the crank turning whilst putting a big breaker bar on the end of it.

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Engine + Driveline / Source of timing chain rattle discovered.

« on: April 13, 2009, 06:50:32 PM »

110K and 4 years since I replaced the timing chain, sprockets and guides.
I noticed a rattle about a week ago. Finally got round to investigating the cause this weekend.





So the bolt that held the fixed guide at the top had worked loose and then spent a week wearing itself and the chain cover metal away. The top of the guide cracked off at some point and ended up half way round the chain route.

The engine ran fine for all of this and I managed a few hundred miles with a load of full throttle and high rpm too.

Has this happened to anyone else? Maybe I should have used a load of threadlock on the bolt?

I do have a heli coil suitable for the thread, but the mounting surface is all messed up, so suspect that I need the head off to have some machining done or replace the head.

The engine has done 230K and runs really well. I'm going to compression test it. It does stick a bit of smoke out on full throttle (not visible from in car), and I was told that this would most likely be the valve stem seals. So I could sort all of that out.
At 230K though, is it worth taking the bottom end out too and having the crank inspected?

Photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/92961862@N00/sets/72157616680518280/

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Engine + Driveline / M42 flywheel options.

« on: January 08, 2008, 03:43:25 PM »

Thanks, looks like good info.

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Engine + Driveline / Big Brakes

« on: January 08, 2008, 01:56:36 PM »

I've been looking into this today. I've got the same setup as you - 15" BBS wheels which are fine and with cheap tyres.

The options I've found out about so far include Corrado G60 discs, or TT Discs and the calipers from the E34 M5 or E34 535(?). There's info about this on the E30zone.net website.
Another option is an off the shelf kit made by someone called WHS or something like that. I need to find out more.

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Engine + Driveline / M42 flywheel options.

« on: January 08, 2008, 01:43:50 PM »

First post here, looks like a great forum. I've got a 1991 318iS in the UK. Standard engine, Bilstein suspension, some poly bushes, all rebuilt last year.
Z3 rack fitted a few weeks ago, Z3 gear shift fitted this weekend.
Great car; I love it.

I'm posting about my next escapade. I've got to sort the driveline out.
I've sourced a 4.1 LSD, plus I have a spare gearbox sat in the garage. I want to swap the boxes over, fit a new clutch and also have a look at the flywheel.

The post 1990 models in the UK are supposed to have the dual mass flywheel. I want to at least fit the earlier, lighter example.

Can someone point me to a picture of both sorts of flywheel so I can at least ID the one I do have.

What the options for a lighter flywheel? I've read a bit about the M20 option.
I'm coming round to just changing the flywheel if I have the heavier one already fitted, though you never know!

Edit: load of pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/92961862@N00/collections/72157600969282464/