As a long term BMW specialist I found the perfect 100% way of preventing valve gear clatter by milling a 1.5mm annular grove around the two camshaft oil supply banjos. The banjo’s oil outlet holes. in their original state they only have three oil outlet holes so the was a high risk of the cam lobes to the front and the rear of the two banjo’s being starved of oil hence premature camshaft failure.
Not posting a follow up of what you have done to fix this common failure on the Ultimate Drive Junk? BMW should have listened to ATG that those banjos are a joke & designed poorly. They refused to listen because rich owners are willing to pay for fixing. After as low as 18K, the Camshafts become defective. Why do you think the down fall of the gas guzzler M30 engine series? Used/resale of the E23/E24 are a joke? No fool is going to drop $9,000+ for camshaft replacement when the car is worth less than $2,000! One can buy a Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla for under $22K, drives it over 125K without major problem. Then sale it for $11,000. Not on a BMW 6 & 7 series.
As a long term BMW specialist I found the perfect 100% way of preventing valve gear clatter by milling a 1.5mm annular grove around the two camshaft oil supply banjos. The banjo’s oil outlet holes. in their original state they only have three oil outlet holes so the was a high risk of the cam lobes to the front and the rear of the two banjo’s being starved of oil hence premature camshaft failure.
Are you not losing oil pressure by increasing flow?
that ticky noise is normal for this engine . but i should replace the icv and afm for better idle.
did you find the problem and what was wrong
Not posting a follow up of what you have done to fix this common failure on the Ultimate Drive Junk?
BMW should have listened to ATG that those banjos are a joke & designed poorly. They refused to listen because rich owners are willing to pay for fixing.
After as low as 18K, the Camshafts become defective.
Why do you think the down fall of the gas guzzler M30 engine series? Used/resale of the E23/E24 are a joke?
No fool is going to drop $9,000+ for camshaft replacement when the car is worth less than $2,000!
One can buy a Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla for under $22K, drives it over 125K without major problem. Then sale it for $11,000.
Not on a BMW 6 & 7 series.
Your engine is noisy compared to mine. Watch my video as a comparison