Hi thanks very much for your help. I'm still struggling to set the pump timing. Number one lobe vertical set dti around 2mm pre load, turn engine clock wise dti dial turns anti clockwise several times once it stops moving just before it begins to spin clockwise I zero it then carry on until...

Ok thanks so whe Ok thanks so when the locking pin is in it should be 0.9 does it matter what stroke or the cam lobes are facing at this point. Just as long as I started with the first one pointing up. This is how they look when I'm at 0.9mm

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I have the crank, cam and dti. When I had it all time up with the marks on the timing chain the dimple hidden at the back of the fuel pump sprocket wasn't pointing straight up but the dimples on the outside of the sprocket were matched to the coloured links. I just wasn't sure if the dimple...

Ok 10/40 it is. Also is there anyway I can check the fuel pump timing is correct without removing the timing cover and chains again. Ive just swapped everything over to another engine and just wanted to double check it's all timed up correctly before I put it in the car.

Can you tell me what oil is best for these engines. I have 5/30 5/40 or 10/40 all in fully synthetic. Thanks

Hi I done the chains myself, I didn't remove the cam shaft so there should not of been an issues with the tappets. I turned the engine by hand atleast 10 revolutions I always do. I done over 300miles before it happened. I now have another engine so I'll need to take my chains off the knackered...

Hopefully i'll find out when I rip it apart. I don't know how the piston and valve could have made contact. Its had new chains and tensioner none of the others have made contact and it ran sweet as a nut.

I'm guessing it's smashed the piston and part of it has gone under the crankshaft causing it to be forced through the sump.

Ok so I have found out what happened, one of the heads of the inlet valves have snapped off. Has this happened to anyone else?

Thats exactly what was thinking. Because normally you get a lot of rattling/knocking before the bottom end goes. But this just went without warning.

The con rod doesn't appear to have broke so what could of happened.

Not at the minute. I'll get some tomorrow

Just had new chains. Engine still runs.

2.5 bmw td lump. The hole is at the front. Engine oil was at the correct level.

2.5 diesel

So just went to the fuel station and on the way back the bloody thing blew a hole through the sump bottom end just went no knocking noise or anything just went bang. Every time I fix something, something else goes wrong. Any reason why this could of happened. Could it be my fuel pump was to Farr...

Hi all as the title. I've changed the brown single plug sensor and it still doesn't work. Could it be the gauge it self at fault? Any way of checking it? What else can I check. Thanks