L322 M62 timing chain and guides

Well it's my turn for this one I had an early warning of timing chain guide failure so parked the car up. It was all ways the plan todo this on my engine at some point as it's a known weakness as all the posts on here will show.
A while back we rebuilt an m62 engine from the ground up or my mate John did with the help of the correct engine locking tool borrowed from Ant on here and that all went ok.
Forward a couple of years and it's my engines turn.

Here it is in all its partial stripped glory guides have failed. Iv bought the parts iv bought the locking tool but it's missing important bits that lock the clamps on the back of the engine in place. Will see how we get on.
I will point out my mate John is doing the work as I'm far to busy doing x6 day weeks at the moment after a year of lockdown.

biketeacherdave said:

my mate John is doing the work as I'm far to busy doing x6 day weeks at the moment after a year of lockdown.

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Bad timing.

Seeing that just made me think, why can't they make anything robust and reliable anymore?

Well seeing as the shelf life of a car according to main dealers is 3 years I think were all doing pretty well.

They can.
But what would be the profit point in that?
Sad but true

biketeacherdave said:

Well seeing as the shelf life of a car according to main dealers is 3 years I think were all doing pretty well.

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Yeah, and it's nice giving em two fingers by, keeping em on the road for 20,30, 40 or more years

Free advertising of how robust they are. Were rather

myfirstl322 said:

Bad timing.

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Or possibly very good timing.

tomcat59alan said:

Or possibly very good timing.

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One good revolution turn deserves another...it's all linked you know.

myfirstl322 said:

One good revolution turn deserves another.

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I'll never turn my back on you again,I woke up with love bites down the back of my neck the first time.

tomcat59alan said:

I'll never turn my back on you again,I woke up with love bites down the back of my neck the first time.

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Those weren't love bites, they were bed sores...don't you ever check a calendar?

So the new plan is to get another exhaust cam shaft and fit it to the car with new gears fitted.
It's a real risk the cam could jump and turn damaging the exhaust valves.....better safe than sorry.

aj1954 said:

Seeing that just made me think, why can't they make anything robust and reliable anymore?

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The Jag engine is.

BMW have always been a bit niggly. Even that M51 of mine has the hot-start issue and that's one of the most reliable engines they've ever done.

I agree with grrrrr-rrr, M51 bmw lump is one of the last heavy built engines.

Getting there

biketeacherdave said:

Getting there
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Can't see with that bloody bog brush in the way

That looks a lot healthier.

Last day tomorrow hopefully