Originally Posted by Bimmer Nut Ed
I remember last time when I checked the oil pump bolts on my e38, I mentioned here on the board that the bolts were loose, someone had said that I should have also tightened the tension on the oil pump chain. Mine seemed to have a lot of play.
Well, I have the pan off now, and I'm trying to tighten the chain and can not seem to figure out how to do it. I even checked out http://www.e38.org/
I'm talking about a 1997 740i btw.
Hmm, am I missing the obvious?
A Bimmer Nut for sure: '04 530im (current daily driver), '97 m3, '98 323is, '99 Z3, '01 740iL, '06 330cicm zhp, '02 R1150R, '69 r60, Owner/Operator of www.Bimmer.info and www.BimmerNut.com
And I still maintain: '90 535im (sold to daughters best friend, one of my favorite bimmers), '92 525im (daughters other best friend now drives this one).
Originally Posted by Bimmer Nut Ed
Kisses to you Bill R. Thanks again as usual. I just did not notice that it really is a "big" hex fitting in there. 8MM, inside that passenger side bolt hole (after you remove the bolt). I had removed the bolt and still could not see it. The validation in the ETK image made me persist. Thanks Bill. Yeah, I know, the ETK is the first thing I should pull out, and here I did it again, it was last. Part of my problem is, my cousin installed it on my PC in German, and it's a real pain to weed through the German to find the location to change it to english. It always defaults to German when I bring it up! Thanks all.
A Bimmer Nut for sure: '04 530im (current daily driver), '97 m3, '98 323is, '99 Z3, '01 740iL, '06 330cicm zhp, '02 R1150R, '69 r60, Owner/Operator of www.Bimmer.info and www.BimmerNut.com
And I still maintain: '90 535im (sold to daughters best friend, one of my favorite bimmers), '92 525im (daughters other best friend now drives this one).