Your completely right! Was spinning the nut and it was tough but after a good few turns it's loosened right off. So it isn't knackered! I think that's correct...

I thought it works the other way round. When it's hot it it's hard to turn?

How can you tell if its knackered? I've got it off the engine at the moment.

In the process of putting on new fan belts and noticed the viscous fan coupling has failed. (it's like trying to turn a blade fast in cold tar when the engine is cold. Is that broken?) I notice the petrol fan viscous coupling uses bolts instead of fixed rivets to the plastic fan itself. Can I...

Thanks chaps!

Academic now anyway. I bought a Bearmach pump! 🤣

Thanks, guys. Is Airtex a good brand or should I go with Bearmach? Or something else. TBH it's sounding like a lottery really.

Hi humanity, In the process of replacing fanbelt & removing the high pressure fuel pump so thought I'd order a water pump too while the belt & fan Cowell is off. Which brand of water pump for the p38 2.5 BMW diesel is best/quality. I'm looking at a Bearmach part but then read someone highly...

Yeah the screen went blank. Yeah, maby just needed the next setting up that would explain it. Anyway I put the supposedly working Dunlop back on and nothing. Most likely a break in the wires in the wheel arch. I've done everything else.

Right these two are the Dunlop. Side ends of the sensor terminals. These are both relatively smooth when reading on middle/side pins moving the arm but they do both go out of range at the higher end and one goes down to 200 but then jumps back to 900 so that might be buggered. The other one...

Yes but I didn't want to say in this heated time hahaha.

Cheap rubbish. I kept the old Dunlop sensors so one of them might be okay.

When I read the middle and end pins the display isn't constant showing a reading and when it does and I move the arm, the readings are all over the place.

I'm getting 1.518k Ohms on either side of the sensor arm pins but not 2k Ohms. Is this duff? It's the front left sensor?

Thanks chaps. Fortunately I found this set. Hopefully it's the right one. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266913709116?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=SSts2y35Tm-&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=sy06FvKiTB-&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Anyone have an Ebay link for the pump gasket set?

Found the trail of the front left RH sensor cables. If its not the sensor is it likely to be these external wires?

Ah. Does anyone have the bit count numbers correlating to the factory heights in mm? Or is that on the previous page?

I understand that they're not inches just that multiple "Experts" told me that the numbers don't have any measurements units and they're just a reference for the diagnostic...

Are the measurements in mm?