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Piyke: Great stuff. Will be doing something similar on my Accord

yeh man, I seen the DIY you done, great stuff,more of it

yungboss: my 320i has that 'almost invisible leak' too. I know it leaks because I see dust/dirt clustered around the filter housing lid but no oil shortage...

Yeh its inevitable that the gasket would fail you got to change it when you can,I'm doing mine next week

yungboss: Good work erico2k21...

Thanks

On my to do list is changing the Oilfilter housing Unit gasket as thats leaking as well.Im waiting for it to be delivered
Pic bellow shows it leaking
Mind you on this Foto,I have already taken off the Engine covers.

Old seals(O rings)

Before(dirty)and after foto(cleaned) of solonoids

Vanos solonoids with 4 O rings

Engine block cleaned n tidy free from oil

Vanos solonoid in car with leaks

Hello guys, I just did a little DIY on my BIMA,it was leaking Oil and white smoke emerging from undernith the hood and bringing in nasty smell into the damn car
Tools needed
Ratchet
10mm Sucket
Degreaser
Pick Pin or nidle
and ofcos, New seals for both intake and out, so 2 big and 2 small O rings pics shortly

Una dey do follow follow, nobody named above owns it, that is a UK number plate 2014,The car is registered in the Uk so RHD

adanny01: Am sure you dont have an intention to use your engine in Mars or the moon. Engines that we have been designing are for use on earth with few that are used on space shuttles foe that purpose. You just challenged me to research on the space shuttles and the engines.

The earths atmosphere starts from sea level up to 100km altitude and this contains mainly Nitrogen then oxygen et al as you said. Air is measured by Atmospheric pressure and this decreases with higher altitude. At high altitudes a human may suffer altitude sickness or faint not because oxygen is deminished in the air but because the atmospheric pressure at which the lungs is made to work is now too low. On the flip side, breathing below the sea level is very difficult because the pressure at that level is very high and goes even higher if you go further below. Its not lack of oxygen but either high or low atmospheric pressure. Same reason why aeroplane cabins are pressurized.

Now, to achieve compression, the combustion chamber has to be air tight and open up to let in air and fuel. These types of engines draw in air by the simple act of downward movement of the piston hence the name 'Naturally aspirated'. Other types of performance engines employ induced aspiration with the turbo chargers and the superchargers. We should be limiting ourselves on this thread to an ordinary engine which gets its oxygen source from nowhere but the atmosphere just like you breath since you dont buy it or store it. Even the engines that get induced get oxygen free and in abundance. The question even says 'things you need', am sure you have oxygen already so you dont need what you already have. What you need is fuel, ignition and compression.

Lastly, control of air (butterfly valve) is necessary, same as the control of fuel (injectors using oxygen sensors and ecu), ignition timing (using coil packs and ecu) and even 'compression timing' which is relative to the valve timing, piston rings optimization with names that you hear like twin cam, iVTEC, VVTi etc. All these things need to be controlled cos they are required to work and rely on each together. If nothing is controlled then the engine might turn out to be a bomb!

I Understood all you are saying, check what you wrote as factors needed,how many or which of them is physical and mechanical?Im trying to narrow the argument

adanny01: Chips is fried not cooked. You could fry the fish too.

If it is boiled fish, you need water and thats cooking.

So in relation, the engine needs oxygen, thats for sure its available already as a constant so what do you really need. Fuel, ignition and compression.

Seriously Im DWL,, wether you Boil,roast,fry,steam,Grill,cure the fish its all kinda cooking BOSS lol,I only said what I said cos of the water element frying is a kind of coking, so is Boiling and grilling etc kia lol

CrinkumCrankum: You are the one who do not know what White elephant project is.... and actually its a white elephant project cos building it is expensive and need less, and maintaining it is also expensive and add no value to average user

This is very ignorant of you.just accept the fact you erred.go and read up the meaning of white elephant project and come bck.

adanny01: We dont need to go into chemistry before we explain what oxygen is to combustion. I have done that years ago in my secondary school days. This is not an argument on the role of oxygen in combustion.

You need to understand the question before you can give a correct answer.

Air is a naturally occuring element that contains oxygen. The engine by default sucks in fuel with air. The fuel is an introduced element in the engine, so is the spark but oxygen finds its way there from natural sources.

You said there are places where there is no oxygen, where is that if i may ask? Cos even aeroplanes that fly at 4000ft above the ground use the naturally occuring oxygen available in the air to run its jet engines. There is no where on the earths atmosphere where the is no oxygen. The only difference is that the amount of oxygen in the air varies with altitude so aeroplanes rely on air compressors to increase the amount of oxygen delivery to the engines.

To get a perfect running engine, the air, fuel and spark must be control and timed. But air gets to the combustion chamber from natural sources and without inducement of anykind to run the engine.

To answer the question of the 3 things necessary to run an engine, the best ans is fuel, spark and compression. When the engine starts running you will need others like controled timing, lubrication, cooling etc

As for places without Oxygen try the atmosphere, scientist are arguing about the presence of oxygen in the Moon and mars till date.You said Air gets into the Combustion Chamber from natural source without inducement of any kind, so if that's the case how does it get controlled to give the right amount?don't forget the Air in question is 21%oxygen(This is what the Engine uses) and 78%Nitrogen the Engine don't need and passes through.These Jagons I just wrote up there are contained i n the Combustion Equation hence I stated it up there.Thats what chemically goes on in the Engine, the bit b4 the= sign is the Engine the bit after is the exhaust or end product that goes to the Cat converter.

adanny01: Ok

Before then, i want to give you a relevant analogy.

If asked, what are the ingredients required to cook egusi soup?

Your answer would be like:
Egusi
Meat
Fish
Crayfish
Seasoning cubes
Salt
Onions
Pepper
Palm oil
Pumpkin leaf (ogu)

The list is complete even though there are other ingredients other people will use to make their desired taste such as tomatoes, kpomo etc. Basically, the list is complete.

Of cource water, is needed to cook every food, it does not appear on the list of the ingredients because it is a common constant for every cooking.

I hope you get my point now.

lol I like your xplanation on the cooking but let me just say, U dnt need water to cook every food, If my Dinner is fish and Chips, that leaves water out as you can see clearly lol

adanny01: We dont need to go into chemistry before we explain what oxygen is to combustion. I have done that years ago in my secondary school days. This is not an argument on the role of oxygen in combustion.

You need to understand the question before you can give a correct answer.

Air is a naturally occuring element that contains oxygen. The engine by default sucks in fuel with air. The fuel is an introduced element in the engine, so is the spark but oxygen finds its way there from natural sources.

You said there are places where there is no oxygen, where is that if i may ask? Cos even aeroplanes that fly at 4000ft above the ground use the naturally occuring oxygen available in the air to run its jet engines. There is no where on the earths atmosphere where the is no oxygen. The only difference is that the amount of oxygen in the air varies with altitude so aeroplanes rely on air compressors to increase the amount of oxygen delivery to the engines.

To get a perfect running engine, the air, fuel and spark must be control and timed. But air gets to the combustion chamber from natural sources and without inducement of anykind to run the engine.

To answer the question of the 3 things necessary to run an engine, the best ans is fuel, spark and compression. When the engine starts running you will need others like controled timing, lubrication, cooling etc

Im at work now cant go indept with my mobile phone will get bck to U

adanny01: The source of oxygen is natural thats why i may not be counted.

You are right with regards to fuel and spark but the third is compression not air as that is a constant. Compression harnesses the energy produced in the combustion and thats what runs the engine.

Oxygen is not necessary natural there are places with nature where there is no oxygen.Lets go back to the Engine, Like I stated earlier, for combustion to take place there must be oxygen o2 or else the chemical process will never take place, The valves controls inlet and outlets which forms part of the drive train controlled by ur ECU.This why you have the O2 Sensors.
Ideally an engine takes in Air (Oxygen and Nitrogen) and fuel (hydrocarbons) and produecs CO2, H2O, and the N2 just passes straight through. The chemical equation is as follows. 2 C8H18 (gas) + 25 O2 = 16 CO2 + 18H2O

donnypool: allu guys were trying to toast a girl?

No they went to collect money owed them when the villagers decided their faces look strange and set upon them.this is how it all started AKA Jungle Justice.Kidnappers no arms eh?

damilola5019: Anyone with any idea on how much it cost to change the cam belt of a volkswagen Bora? My mechanic said it cost 15k but I get the feeling he is trying to play a fast one on me

How about buying it n paying 4 labour?

There is no comparism the Q7 beats the RX however the factor should Money

donnypool: mr man, how many girls have you toasted that shouted kidnap on you?

U seem to forget 2hat happened in Rivers Allo

adanny01: Air is not compression. The piston causes the compression then transmits the resultant energy produced by the combustion for the engine to run.

As CityNG has said, air is a naturally occuring element which will always be present so should be treated as a constant. As a matter of fact an equipment such as a vacuum pump must be used if air isnt needed.

In addition, ignition and spark is synonymous. Power is an end result or output of a running engine so cannot be an input.

Ok how does the piston get pushed is it not by rapid conbustion? And there is a mixture of fuel and spark to instigate this and simple physics states for anything to ignite there must be oxygen.and the pry source of oxygen in the Engine is Air?

CityNG: I will crown the first person that gets the answer as OniCarTalk of CarTalk, Oba Atenimasun I

PS: We are watching you Google cheaters, no googling.

I got the Answer lol
1 Fuel(Igniti0n)
2 Power(Spark)
3 Air(C0mpression)

domack99: Thanks erico2k2, ratchet is the wright word

Im gonna stock my shop with a couple when I get bck to PH xmas time.there a boxed with universal joints etc.

ZIMDRILL: i wanted him see the converter its self and its shape, that would help him to understand why its not possible drain all the oil in the converter without seperating the gearbox from the engine and get out the converter

Noted brov

ZIMDRILL: the only way to change the oil in the converter is to separate the gearbox from the engine and take out the converter eampty it and refill

thats the reason why garages we flush 3 or 4 times flush of the gearbox oil, the reason is the more you flush the more you dilute fresh oil the converter


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk3n_ss0x5s

a converter being open, this video helps to undersatnd thats a simple flush wont dilute much oil in the converter

That wont be DIY no more bro lol

CityNG: I did it one time and after I was done I actually broke out in a panic because I realized that I did not set the parking brake while the car was on jack stands I swore I checked all the safety things twice). I also worked alone another very big no no.

aahh U lucky U aint got panic attack,Im actualy gonna do the change on my Jeep liberty when I go to Nigeria December, the liberty survived the last Huracane in New Jersey so its gonna be messy, I already got the gasket along with the filter but at least I'm filling from the top.I did a lil DIY on my BIMA today, will post in the BMW section in a bit with pics.

CityNG: Try on the BMW 740iL where you have to have the car level and the engine running as you pump oil in it from underneath

Thats the one brove ahah, I think in most saloons that's what you have to do or risk killing the transmition.

Palacedaughter: Hey friend, I am happy that you went to check it out. You don't have to curse in a bid to assert yourself. You can go back to check/research again but this time with an unbiased mind. Nobody says 'money' can't be pluralized. The issue we have here is that in everyday English the word “money” is
uncountable. It is not used in the plural.
Thank me later.

You still don't get it that your English is Wack. I placed the link there for you to get the gist still you are here spewing crap as usual,who told you money is uncountable?how do you know the amount of change you are meant to get if you don't count money?Go back to that link and learn something new. KMT

domack99: It was refill from the top, can you refill from under? what else would they auto shop be doing in garage to drain the entire fluid?

I thought as Much, refill from under is what we are left to do with saloon cars and MPV, which is hard work.Well the garage would blast the remainder of the fluid out with compressed air.My take is,do not bother about the remains in the torque converter unit,just use recommended ATF then U are fine, while you are it, are you also going to change the filter and gasket?they mix after a while,what you are xpiriencing has been an issue to many Mechs.