9icetoo:

Comparing apples to oranges.
Someone please help me define his problem....

What problem

NokiaN8:

This is the excerpt type of my BMW same colour,

E36 are niceee very easy to work on ..
Hope yours has the straight six engine

The car is a BMW 318i 2005 ..
But I think the real engine was swapped for an M42 instead of an N42 double vanos ..
Wonder who advised him to do that .I think they did that rubbish in the shop since I asked my boss just smiled ..I think he is wondering how I knew the engine was swapped

Pictures of top cylinders we changed

This is just what the oil pump looks like on the m42 engine
We changed like 3 of it before we saw a substantial amount of oil being supplied to the top cylinder

Removed the bottom plate in hopes of finding pieces of metal or something ..
During the course of the repairs we changed crank shaft bearings but nope still didn't work ..

This is what the wear looks like ..just one side
Who can wildly guess what caused it .

Removed all the Pistons and they where alright ..but piston three has marks
Very bad ones

People of God who has an M42 engine they are not using we need just a piston

After changing the oil pump and still the sound was there .although looking at the tapets they looked very okay but that sound was just there

Decided to to take another approach and change the top cylinder since all of us agree that the sound is from there
We had some in stock so we was just throwing them in and changing

But that too didn't work ..
We den decided to remove piston three since it was the one that was misfiring
And then we saw that

Mr X came with misfiring issues ..checked and found all the plugs with carbon ,
Cleaned and put them back but then cylinder 3 was still misfiring ..

Plus it was making this sound like like the tapets are beyond redemption .

We decided to open the valve cover and then discovered that oil was not actually being pumped to the top cylinder

The BMW is obviously not for you

Oteocar:
I'm look for this Toyota Camry

That's an Acura ..

aieromon:


What is your level of participation?
Observer or hands-on?

Observation keh ...

Setting the timing on the N46 engine is crazy ...everyone was lost including my boss ..we invited other BMW mechanics they were talking things we didn't want to do to the engine ..

So I checked YouTube
Finally
There are no timing marks on the engine

fineboynl:
Bmw. Do people still drive BMW?

Very few people do..people that have test driven BMWs wouldn't want to drive a Toyota again ..
The technology in them sheer speed and handling is different .
That's for people that understand cars ..
Normal everyday people don't drive them

HeavenlyBang:
Keenly following.

Great work.

Thank you for the encouragement

aieromon:


How many years experience do you have working on BMW vehicles?

How popular is the BMW brand in Plateau (I assume you are based there even though the pictures look like BMW village in Gudu).

It's Abit vague cos I'm in school I go there during the holidays although not all holidays .

I started around 2014 .,there is a sizable number of BMWs .very few people work on them like about 5 known BMW workshops .here

And no this is jos

The first generation e87 came with a n46 engine
N46B.... ,
I don't quite remember but we replaced with a faster n46B20 engine the difference is the latter didn't have a dip stick and a slight change to the top cylinder cover

Plus it came with 150...something hp the former had around 130

Still faster than a Hilux lol

This was a case of engine failure on the 1 series .
It started with the MAF issues and then vanos and boom engine was sounding like a tractor .

During the vanos servicing we discovered chips of metals on the vanos and just adviced owner to buy a new engine

My first job since I got there ..changing of the shock absorbers ..I've done like three weeks there before this and have seen that done only once

This one is for sale but I wouldn't advice my enemy to buy it ..
If you love challenges like buy and restore toh
E go make sense make u dey update us with the restoration pictures

Like this one ..

Buy a straight six with double vanos

M5 kinda thingy

surrogatesng:
If you don't mind.can you go back there and take more pictures of the vehicle as a lot of people on this thread will like to see if the front headlights were also changed

I'll try do that

daylay7:

M42 and m43 are not on vanos system

I know that

I think it would be cheaper to replace ..cos upgrading an engine needs a lot of modifications and rewiring ..tbh

daylay7:


It was not actually the nozzle or plug. The problem is on the block. There is an incomplete combustion on line 1 of the nozzle: the nozzle is spraying fuel and the spark plug is working fine but it doesn't fire. I once change the valve of that line 1 but it seems the first mechanic didn't grind it well to fit the block.
Anyway, I am selling it for double vanos now.

Wow ..which type of engine is it m42?

surrogatesng:
where did you see it? Did they also change the headlight?

Saw it in jos farin gada ..near that place they use to repair batteries ..
It's still there not painted or anything ..
Project was on halt

People of God why am I having difficulties uploading pictures
I'm new to this thing

Alright folks I now understand how to upload the pictures ..

This is just more like a diary of my day to day activities at the shop since the strike started ..

I'll try update on Sundays and take pictures as much as I can ..

I enjoy working on the engines more so the pictures would be Abit limited hence my hands are most times greasy but I'll try my best.

The technology packed in BMW engines amaze me .alright let's go

Bro I saw this car today ...
It's still not painted omo see coincidence walahi

autologic:

Assumption taken too far ,that BMW Maf fail easily don't mean it must be a Maf everytime .Only a thorough diagnosis can reveal whatever is wrong

From experiences def a MAF problem ..it's very rare for nozzles to fail except there was water in the tank or dirty filter shits like that ...

Although one cannot rule out the importance of a scan ..