Hi everyone slow to start here I guess i signed up quite some time ago. I guess I never took advantage of the better qualities of this website in earlier years. I was out sucking a ton of air into my r56 turbo charged cooper across the Midwest and Southwest. god bless everyone here and everyone's spirit be that of someone that does not quit.
I am getting ready to attempt to install my timing chain again and want to know if I have overlooked anything. As far as the timing goes? It's a mini cooper with about 110 thousand miles on it. It suffered a water leak at the hard pipe at which time it was driven for about two and half hours. At that point during the summer it made it to a mini cooper dealer. They looked it over and decided that the turbo had failed(turned out to be a stuck actuator). Anyway having the car towed back to my garage I decided to pull the head and change the gasket. I know what happens during water leaks.
I took the head off and the block still had water that was probably why it made it up there before suffering turbo failure. so during the summer I bought a lot of parts for the car. New borg warner turbo,head gasket, arp bolts(which was a good call), all new coolant related components,timing components,tools to do the jobs. My problem at that point was a head gasket I believe that was too thin and wondered why they would list it in a r56 category for a product to buy which was .70 sized head gasket. SOOO I wrecked the valves. Now it may be just that. but would like to know how to install a timing chain and a few more timing chain related questions.
Lets start with this question. Does crankshaft endplay occur in a mini cooper to a degree that it would effect the tightening of the crank bolt and loosen up that same bolt once the car is started and is there a tool for the mini cooper to check endplay if that is the case? If that is not a common occurance at 110 thousand miles to make a difference that would also be helpful if someone said that?
I am getting ready to attempt to install my timing chain again and want to know if I have overlooked anything. As far as the timing goes? It's a mini cooper with about 110 thousand miles on it. It suffered a water leak at the hard pipe at which time it was driven for about two and half hours. At that point during the summer it made it to a mini cooper dealer. They looked it over and decided that the turbo had failed(turned out to be a stuck actuator). Anyway having the car towed back to my garage I decided to pull the head and change the gasket. I know what happens during water leaks.
I took the head off and the block still had water that was probably why it made it up there before suffering turbo failure. so during the summer I bought a lot of parts for the car. New borg warner turbo,head gasket, arp bolts(which was a good call), all new coolant related components,timing components,tools to do the jobs. My problem at that point was a head gasket I believe that was too thin and wondered why they would list it in a r56 category for a product to buy which was .70 sized head gasket. SOOO I wrecked the valves. Now it may be just that. but would like to know how to install a timing chain and a few more timing chain related questions.
Lets start with this question. Does crankshaft endplay occur in a mini cooper to a degree that it would effect the tightening of the crank bolt and loosen up that same bolt once the car is started and is there a tool for the mini cooper to check endplay if that is the case? If that is not a common occurance at 110 thousand miles to make a difference that would also be helpful if someone said that?