Agreed. And yeah, I thought hydrolocking usually translated to bent valve stems, broken pistons, and other significant internal issues. If it runs and sounds normal, that's a good sign!Originally Posted by slater
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Agreed. And yeah, I thought hydrolocking usually translated to bent valve stems, broken pistons, and other significant internal issues. If it runs and sounds normal, that's a good sign!
Campieri
What the hell is this pipe? It's connected to the alternator. Never seen this shit before.
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I would have thought for sure a hydrolocked engine would be toast, but you drove it, so... Perhaps a revival is doable!
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Imolarot / Naturbraun
2003 330iT / 6MT
Orientblau / Naturbraun
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Maybe. If getting the water out doesn't remove the ticking then I'll probably need to do some head work. Shouldn't be too bad. Never done it before so I'd be excited.
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That pipe is an alternator cooling duct.
That oil looks yucky.
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Campieri
Yeah I know (that oil looks yucky, not about cooling duct). I'm hoping just new oil will get rid of the loud ticking. I don't think any valves are bent because when I revved the engine last night it got quieter, not louder, as I would expect it to.
Hopefully.
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Dario, dump the old oil and fill her up with some fresh cheapo oil from the parts store. Do a quick compression test and post the results! If it's running good, run it for 200 or so miles and send off a sample of the oil to Blackstone.
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Just got her up to operating temperature with new oil. Seems to run fine, save for the fact that the valve train seems really noisy. Could also be a noisy vanos, or maybe bad oil fucks with the vanos. At any rate, I'm hoping it quiets down and that's the end of it.
I can't drive the car on the roads lol. Too many cops for me to risk no papers.
Might go focus on other things now, and heat cycle the car a few times for the next few days and try to get as much as I can out, then dump the oil while it's warm. Then gonna fill her up again and do a tank or two of driving before doing a third oil change.
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Run some Seafoam through it
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