custom coilovers = lol
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Took my engine apart and back together tonight. Swapped cams, trays and lifters from my old head and the knock is gone. Still have a weird rattling. Think the chain is stretched. Fuck it for now I guess lol
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How did the sprockets look? Have you run the engine for a while? When i fire up my m50 after storage it rattles badly and you need to hold the rpms around 3k for a minute or two
This doesn't seem normal mr Menard I think it's time for u to order a vanos rebuild kit and I'm thinking about doing mine when I service my cooling system on the e46.
1984 BMW 528e - SETA and manual swapped! M50 to come!!!
1988 BMW 528e - Need parts?
1991 Chevy C1500 (mighty 350 with TBI and Wisconsin weight reduction package)
1996 Mazda Miata (SOLD!!!)
1996 BMW 325i (Donor car)
1998 Chevrolet Corvette (BEAST)
2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee (BROKEN)
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all the guides are brand new the sprockets look good the bearings in the idler gear look good everything looks good. I'm just not sure what's causing that rattling. It sounds like the chain. Maybe the one lifter that failed causing the knock has a blocked oil passage leading to it partially starving that lifter of oil until it fails. I'm not positive though I'm just going to run it and see what happens. If it does it again then I know there is a crazy issue.
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This doesn't seem normal mr Menard I think it's time for u to order a vanos rebuild kit and I'm thinking about doing mine when I service my cooling system on the e46.
The oil drains out of the lifters after sitting, it's not the vanos. It can sit for a couple weeks with no problem, it's just when it sits for several months over winter. The vq30 in our Maxima rattles for a couple seconds if you leave it for a week...
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Im getting pretty good with the old m42 deconstruction haha took me about four hours to get this one out by myself
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I should be able to tell you if that is true tomorrow
maybe even tonight. Depends on how much I hustle. -
You are more than welcome to come play with me earl
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Shes back on the road! Running better than ever too. Thanks to Snap lending me that clutch tool
byno means would I call myself a mechanic but I do know my way around an m42 now... that's for sure. Besides the physical aspect of using the picker to pull the motor and then placing the new one back in, I did all that shit by myself. Working on it for two solid nights and some random bits here and there in between. Not bad for a rookie. And by the way, if anyone ever wants to swap an e36 m42 into an e30 you have to swap way more shit than the internet says you do lol -
If you would have bought me the trans, drive shaft, diff, swap pan, booster and all the other piddly shit that goes along with the swap I would have. For $400 I can drive my car again. Ill take it. If I swap the car for a 24 valve or anything other than stock motor I would rather do something a lot cooler than an m50. My theory is...it would suck really bad to swap my car for performance gains and still get shit on by an STI or some stupid shit of the sort lol
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