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A couple of days ago (after pressure washing the drive) I found a bolt under the car - so I had a good look around the engine and couldn't find any missing ones - I even went through all the last jobs I had done on the car to see if I could find where it came from but no luck.
The car is my daily drive so I drove to work as usual with nothing unusual and just guessed that I had blasted the bolt across the drive when pressure washing. The next morning I fired it up and reversed out of the drive and I noticed another bolt sitting there - exactly the same as the last one.
From Realoem I found that an M8 x 16 bolt is only used in a couple of places - and one of them being the Harmonic Balancer (Vibration damper) so I guessed I best have a look at it - and this is what I found:
The four bolts that seemed to be OK were all very loose - that damper was ready to fly off any second - and at 5500 RPM it would have done a lot of damage!
So, how's that for luck, the car has covered over 100 miles this week and both bolts that came off ended up in the drive - what's the chances of that!
P.S. I've had the car for eight years or so and have never removed those bolts, my only guess is that the water pump was replaced before I bought it.....
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Haha, as stuck as those can be sometimes you'd be ok for another week
But great catch!
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That's just crazy. If you need help doing the repair, I know a bloke across the pond that has a great website....
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LolOriginally Posted by Mayorchuck
That's just crazy. If you need help doing the repair, I know a bloke across the pond that has a great website....
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damn that's crazy lmao good catch.
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Are you talk about Meek? Timnet.co. uk?That's just crazy. If you need help doing the repair, I know a bloke across the pond that has a great website....
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Wow great catch! Were they able to just be retightened?
Last edited by purplecty; 04-22-2019 at 11:02 PM.
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Yes! I spun the viscous-coupled fan off, put towels over the front of the car (there's two feet of body before you reach the engine on the E31) and lay there with a ratchet for an hour or so replacing the bolts - not much fun but pretty straight-forward!
Timm..2007 E64 650i Individual Sport..1999 E31 840ci Individual Sport..ex owner of 2000 E38 740..1999 E38 740i V8 M62..1998 E38 735i V8..1993 E32 730i V8..1988 E28 518i
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Loctite?
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Most definitely. I think they suppose to get 25Nm, I wonder if blue can be used at that level, probably needs red.
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