This video helped me soo much doing the same with my E30 318i 1986. But I also changing chain along with guides and sprocket. Subscribed and liked. Two question: How do you put the crankshaft pulley back in? just some tapping and hammering into the timing cover rubber hole? Is it easy to remove and put in a new crankshaft sprocket? Greetings, Luca.
Hi! I do not know how to do change the sprocket because I haven't done it before. Here is a guide of the pulley I found on bmw2002faq website. After removing pulley and old seal: 1) while keeping the outside of the seal perfectly clean and free from oil, I pack the INSIDE of the seal (where the tiny spring resides) with grease. I've always believed this helps keep the spring from getting dislodged and mangled during installation. You don't want it entering your timing chain innards. I also grease the thin "valley" of the seal, where the crank pulley hub will contact it. This avoids immediate damage from a dry pulley grabbing the dry seal surface on first rotation. 2. take fine sandpaper (emory cloth) and spin the shiny area of the pulley hub around in it, so as to remove any burrs or to soften any ridges that may have formed over time. Don't overdo it. Just enough to make it smooth....not smaller in diameter! 3. make sure the woodruff key is solidly and completely seated in it's groove on the crankshaft. 4. Apply thin coat of grease to pulley outer hub surface... then slide pulley onto crank shaft. Push with palm. If it refuses to seat fully with this technique, use a rubber mallet or small piece of wood / mallet to hit ONLY the CENTER of the pulley as best you can, using a large deep socket that will allow clearance for the crankshaft end inside. 5. tighten crankshaft nut with common ratchet / hand tools good and snug. Maybe 30-40 lb/ft +/- Then REMOVE the nut. 6. Coat inside of nut with a thin coating of RED loctite. Install and tighten to specified torque.
This video helped me soo much doing the same with my E30 318i 1986. But I also changing chain along with guides and sprocket. Subscribed and liked. Two question: How do you put the crankshaft pulley back in? just some tapping and hammering into the timing cover rubber hole? Is it easy to remove and put in a new crankshaft sprocket? Greetings, Luca.
Hi! I do not know how to do change the sprocket because I haven't done it before.
Here is a guide of the pulley I found on bmw2002faq website.
After removing pulley and old seal:
1) while keeping the outside of the seal perfectly clean and free from oil, I pack the INSIDE of the seal (where the tiny spring resides) with grease. I've always believed this helps keep the spring from getting dislodged and mangled during installation. You don't want it entering your timing chain innards. I also grease the thin "valley" of the seal, where the crank pulley hub will contact it. This avoids immediate damage from a dry pulley grabbing the dry seal surface on first rotation.
2. take fine sandpaper (emory cloth) and spin the shiny area of the pulley hub around in it, so as to remove any burrs or to soften any ridges that may have formed over time. Don't overdo it. Just enough to make it smooth....not smaller in diameter!
3. make sure the woodruff key is solidly and completely seated in it's groove on the crankshaft.
4. Apply thin coat of grease to pulley outer hub surface... then slide pulley onto crank shaft. Push with palm. If it refuses to seat fully with this technique, use a rubber mallet or small piece of wood / mallet to hit ONLY the CENTER of the pulley as best you can, using a large deep socket that will allow clearance for the crankshaft end inside.
5. tighten crankshaft nut with common ratchet / hand tools good and snug. Maybe 30-40 lb/ft +/- Then REMOVE the nut.
6. Coat inside of nut with a thin coating of RED loctite. Install and tighten to specified torque.
Thank you very much
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@karllucaspindler5665 do I need to remove water pump when removing chain cover? Did you had any special tool for setting timing?